Dec 16, 2024 City Council

UM, LET'S SEE WE'RE, WE HAVE A CLOSED SESSION ON OUR CALENDAR TONIGHT, AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO INTRODUCE THE TOPICS WE'LL BE DISCUSSING AT CLOSED SESSION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. MAYOR.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

UM, TONIGHT THE COUNCIL WILL HAVE TWO CLOSED SESSION DISCUSSION.

THE FIRST IS CONFERRING WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING EXISTING LITIGATION THREE CASES UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 4 9 5 6 0.9.

PARAGRAPH ONE.

UH, FIRST CASE IS YOUNGSTOWN MOBILE HOME PARK LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION VERSUS CITY OF PETALUMA CASE TWO FOUR CV 0 0 2 5.

THE NEXT IS PARKS, BODA PARKER, ET ALL, VERSUS CITY OF PETALUMA TWO FOUR CV 0 4 180 8.

AND THE THIRD CASE IS, UM, YOUNGTOWN MO HOME PARK, LLC VERSUS CITY OF PETALUMA TWO FOUR CV 0 4 1 58.

COUNSEL WILL ALSO CONFER WITH ITS REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 4 9 5 6 0.8.

THE PROPERTY IS THE CITY OWNED FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY 1 75 FAIRGROUNDS DRIVE.

AND THE, UH, PARCEL NUMBERS ARE LISTED IN THE AGENDA.

AGENCY'S NEGOTIATORS, PEGGY FLYNN, CITY MANAGER NEGOTIATING PARTIES OF THE FOURTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

UNDER NEGOTIATION ARE PRICE IN TERMS OF PAYMENT AND OTHER TERMS OF USE OF PORTIONS OF THE CITY OWNED FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY FOR PRESENTATION OF THE SONOMA MARIN FAIR.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON ALL ITEMS. AND SO I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR CLERK IF WE'VE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ON EITHER OF THESE ITEMS AND IF WE HAVE ANY, UH, AND THEN ROLL RIGHT INTO THE PUBLIC.

THANK YOU FOR THAT INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC.

AND, UH, WE DO

[PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION ITEMS]

SURE.

WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY, UH, WRITTEN COMMENTS AHEAD OF TIME.

UM, BUT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK AT THIS TIME IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.

SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS.

UH, WE DO HAVE ONE CARD ALREADY AND IT LOOKS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE.

AND I HAD LIKE TO INVITE JODY JOHNSON TO SPEAK.

GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF.

WE ARE HERE FOR COMMENTS ON YOUR CLOSED DOOR SESSION.

TO REITERATE THE FOLLOWING, ONCE THE CASES OF APPEAL, BOTH FROM THE YOUNGSTOWN MOBILE RESIDENTS AND THE YOUNGSTOWN PARK OWNERS WERE MERGED THE AFTERNOON BEFORE OUR STAY HEARING.

AS OF TODAY, THE STAY HEARING HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN A DATE TO BE HEARD.

YOUNGSTOWN RESIDENTS BELIEVED THAT IT WAS A CALCULATED APPROACH TO MERGE THE CASE THE DAY BEFORE HEARING TO ALLOW THE JUDGE TO BE REMOVED FROM OUR CASE AS PER THE PARK OWNER'S WISHES.

IN A FAILED PREEMPTORY CHALLENGE, THE OWNERS HAD FAILED TO PAY THE FILING FEE, THE FIRST ATTEMPTED CHALLENGE, AND WHAT IT WOULD'VE, WHEN IT WOULD'VE BEEN RESUBMITTED, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED BECAUSE IT WAS UNTIMELY SINCE THE HEARING WAS THE FOLLOWING DAY.

YOUNGSTOWN RESIDENTS WHO FULLY FUNDED THIS APPEAL ARE FRUSTRATED, ANGRY, AND UNDERSTANDABLY LEERY THAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE NOT BEING CONSIDERED IN A TIMELY FASHION.

THIS STAY HEARING WAS DONE IN AN ORDER OF SHORTENING TIME AND GRANTED TO BE HEARD EXPEDITIOUSLY.

WHEREAS WE DO NOT KNOW THE OUTCOME OF THE STAY HEARING.

EVERY MONTH SINCE OCTOBER, RESIDENTS HAVE HAD TO PAY $248 PER MONTH, MORE INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES THAT ARE NOT REASONABLE.

THERE ARE MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS WHO CANNOT AFFORD THAT $248.

IN ADDITION, YOUNGSTOWN OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT CONTINUE TO TELL BUYERS THAT YOUNGSTOWN IS AN ALL AGE PARK.

THEY HAVE SOLD FOUR DIFFERENT MOBILE HOMES AS ALL AGE RESIDENTS HAVE VIDEO TAPE OF YOUNG CHILDREN ON BIKES WITH TRAINING WHEELS UNATTENDED BY PARENTS RIDING IN THE STREETS WHILE SENIOR CITIZENS ARE BACKING OUT.

IN ADDITION, THE VOICEMAIL TO YOUNGSTOWN STATES ALL AGES, AND OF COURSE, NEW BUYERS ARE GIVEN ALL AGE RULES AND REGULATIONS.

WE, OF COURSE, ARE AWARE THAT YOUNGSTOWN OWNERS ARE SUING THE CITY AGAINST THE SENIOR PARK OVERLAY, BUT THEY HAVE NOT WON AND MUST ABIDE BY THE ORDINANCES IN ZONING THAT IS LEGALLY IN EFFECT SINCE OCTOBER 16TH, 2023.

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WE ASK YOU TO CONTINUE TO BE COURAGEOUS AS YOU HAVE BEEN, TO STAND UP FOR SIMPLY WHAT IS RIGHT, AND JUST YOUNGSTOWN RESIDENTS ARE NOT ASKING FOR MORE THAN ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDINANCE, THE ZONING, AND THE LAW.

WE THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS LISTENING CAREFULLY ASSESSING THE TRUTH, AND MAKING THOUGHTFUL DECISIONS FOR OUR VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.

AND THAT CLOSES OUR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE EVENING ABOUT OUR CLOSED SESSION, AND WE WILL NOW ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION.

AND, UH, WE WILL RETURN FOR REGULAR SESSION AT SIX 30 OR AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE CLOSED SESSION, WHICHEVER COMES LATER.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYER.

ARE WE READY TO BEGIN? AND YES, WE'RE READY TO BEGIN TONIGHT'S MEETING.

TO EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND, UM, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 2024.

IF THE RECORDING HAS STARTED HERE, THEN UH, WE'LL PICK UP.

UM, GOOD EVENING

[CALL TO ORDER]

IF YOU WISH TO BRING A PUBLIC COMMENT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD, WHICH ARE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, AND BRING IT TO OUR CLERK WHO IS IN THE FRONT OF THE ROOM.

AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO NOW INVITE MONICA APARICIO AND MARIA GALVEZ TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE TONIGHT IN SPANISH.

THANK YOU, AND GOOD EVENING.

WE'RE READY, AND THANK YOU.

AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE CLERK TO TAKE OUR ROLL CALL FOR THE EVENING, AL PRESIDENT CATER THOMPSON.

HERE.

HEALY HERE, NOW HERE.

POST K HERE, TRIPS HERE MCDONALD HERE.

AND WE HAVE A QUORUM.

POINT, I ALWAYS LOOK UP AND DOWN THE DAAS AND SEE IF ANY COUNCIL MEMBER HAS AN AGENDA CHANGE TO REQUEST.

LET'S STAND FOR A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THE REPUBLIC RELIGIOU AGAINST OUR NATION, AND GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.

AT THIS

[AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (TO CURRENT AGENDA ONLY)]

AND SEEING NONE.

WE WILL FOLLOW TONIGHT'S AGENDA AS WRITTEN.

AND, UM, OUR

[PROCLAMATIONS]

FIRST ITEM IS, UM, ALWAYS A FUN ONE, PROCLAMATIONS.

AND, UM, TONIGHT THOUGH IT'S A TIME OF FAREWELL TO FRIENDS, UH, COUNCILMAN PO POKAY, WHO'S LED WITH HIS HEART AND HIS HUMANITY, UM, FOR THIS COUNCIL FOR A SHORT BUT ILLUSTRATIVE CAREER TERM AND COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY, WHO'S BEEN THE LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY OF THIS COUNCIL FOR HIS LONG AND ILLUSTRATIVE CAREER.

UH, I JUST WANT TO BORROW A QUOTE FROM PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WHICH GOES, IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS.

THE CREDIT BELONGS TO THE PERSON WHO'S ACTUALLY IN THE ARENA, WHOSE FACE IS MARRED, WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY, WHO KNOWS GREAT DEVOTION AND SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE.

AND WITH THAT, UM, THE CITY HAS PREPARED THESE, UH, FAREWELL PROCLAMATIONS.

AND, UM, FIRST, UH, I HAVE THE PROCLAMATION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE HEALY, JANUARY, 1999 TO JANUARY, 2007, AND THEN JANUARY, 2009 TO JANUARY, 2025.

WHEREAS LET IT BE KNOWN THAT COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE HEALY, ELECTED FOR SIX TERMS, THE CITY COUNCIL IN 98, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2016,

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AND 2020, AND SERVED AS VICE MAYOR IN 2002, 2011 AND 2018 FOR A TOTAL SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY OF 24 YEARS, HAS ADDITIONALLY FAITHFULLY AND, AND THOUGHTFULLY SERVED THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE BICYCLE COMMITTEE, THE FAIRGROUNDS AD HOC COMMITTEE, THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, THE RECREATION AND MUSICS AND PARK COMMISSION, THE AIRPORT AND YOUTH COMMISSIONS LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SONOMA MAYORS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE NORTH BAY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, THE NORTH BAY WATER REUSE AUTHORITY, THE SONOMA COUNTY WATER AGENCY ZONE TWO ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE PETALUMA GROUND VALLEY GROUNDWATER AND SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY, AND THE CAL CITY'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS, INCLUDING SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF ITS NORTH BAY DIVISION.

WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S DEDICATED COMMUNITY LEADER AND FERVENT HISTORIAN WHOSE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND MASTERY OF THE INTERSECTION OF BOTH CALIFORNIA STATE AND LOCAL LAWS AND ORDINANCES HAS BEEN INVALUABLE IN COUNCIL DELIBERATION AND DECISION MAKING, AND NOT SOMEONE TO BE EASILY REPLACED.

AND WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE HEALY WAS A LEADING ADVOCATE FOR ESTABLISHING THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE, WHICH SUPPORTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN COMPLETION OF THE BUCKALOO HOUSING AND PEP SENIOR AND VETERAN RIVER CITY HOUSING PROJECTS, AS WELL AS THE CURRENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE BURBANK RIVER PLACE HOUSING PROJECT, ALL OF WHICH SUPPORT AND HOUSE SOME OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND WAS A RELENTLESS PROPONENT FOR TENANT PROTECTIONS, INCLUDING FOR OUR MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENCE.

AND WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY PARTICIPATED IN TWO CITY DELEGATIONS TO WASHINGTON, DC TO SUCCESSFULLY LOBBY ON CAPITOL HILL AND AT THE PENTAGON FOR US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS FUNDING TO RESOLVE THE HISTORIC FLOODING PROBLEM OF THE PAY RAN NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND STAUNCHLY SUPPORTED CITY EFFORTS TO SECURE THE CITY'S FIRST NEW REVENUE SOURCE MEASURE U, WHICH HAS LEVERAGED NEARLY $200 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDING AND IS CREATING A CITY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE AND WILL HELP KEEP THE CITIES FISCALLY AND ORGANIZATIONALLY SUSTAINABLE FOR GENERATIONS OF PETALUMA TO COME.

AND WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE HEALY PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF THEATER SQUARE THAT OFFERS HOUSING, PARKING, RETAIL, AND DINING IN THE HEART OF PETALUMA'S BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN, AS WELL AS FIRST RUN MOVIE THEATER THAT HE CHAMPIONED AFTER MEETING WITH THE SUPERB SEVEN, A GROUP OF SEVEN PETALUMA JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS WHO WANTED A MOVIE THEATER TO WALK TO DOWNTOWN RESULTING IN BOULEVARD CINEMAS THAT SERVE AND ENTERTAIN TEENS AND ADULTS ALIKE.

AND WHEREAS , BY FAR THE LONGEST, UM, UM, THE LONGEST PROJECT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY WORKED ON WAS SECURING THAT SPECIAL PLACE KNOWN AS LAFFERTY RANCH BY WORKING WITH BILL CORDEM, MATT MCGUIRE, LARRY MODELL, AND MANY OTHERS TO OFFER PUBLIC ACCESS TO A CITY OWNED AND PROTECTED GLORIOUS OPEN SPACE FOR ALL TO ENJOY.

AND WHEREAS WHILE COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY HAD A PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE, HIS PRIMARY PRO PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION AND LOVE WAS TO THE CITY JOINING WHEN HIS CHILDREN, MEG AND TOM WERE THREE AND SIX YEARS OLD AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS FIRST TERM, AND HIS COUNTLESS HOURS SPENT RESEARCHING AND STRATEGIZING ON SOLUTIONS FOR SOME OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ISSUES FACING OUR CITY WILL ALWAYS BE VALUED AND APPRECIATED.

SO NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE 16TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2024 AS MIKE HEALY DAY AND EXTEND OUR CONGRATULATIONS, OUR ENDLESS GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR HIS FAITHFUL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA.

24 YEARS IS DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER DENNIS ZEKE, JANUARY, 2021 TO JANUARY, 2025, WHERE WHEREAS LET IT BE KNOWN THAT COUNCIL MEMBER DENNIS POKAY, AN ACCOMPLISHED PHYSICIAN AND COMMUNITY ACTIVIST WHOSE TIRELESS DEVOTION AND EFFECTIVE ADVOCACY FOR RESIDENTS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, ESPECIALLY OUR HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED AND DISADVANTAGED

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COMMUNITIES, HAS AUTHENTICALLY AND WITH THOUGHTFULNESS, HUMILITY, AND UNWAVERING EMPATHY.

IN BOLD COMPASSION SERVED THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS ON THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND AS VICE MAYOR IN 20 THOU IN 2022.

AND WHEREAS EXCEPTIONALLY PASSIONATE AND COMMITTED TO VASTLY IMPROVING THE CITY'S RESPONSE TO HOMELESSNESS BY SUPPORTING INCREASED INVESTMENTS BY THE CITY, NOW TOTALING APPROXIMATELY $4 MILLION ANNUALLY.

AND BY SERVING ON THE SONOMA COUNTY HOMELESS SYSTEM OF CARE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ALL FOUR YEARS OF HIS TERM, AND BY CHAIRING THE CONTINUUM OF CARE, BO COMPRISING A CONSORTIUM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, NONPROFITS, AND HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS.

DENNIS SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR SYSTEMATIC CHANGES THROUGH INTEGRATION AND INCLUSIVE POLICY AND PROGRAMS, DEDICATED FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, AND BY INSISTING ON COLLECTIVE IMPACT, EARLY INTERVENTION, AND INVESTING IN PREVENTATIVE MEASURES TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM BECOMING HOMELESSNESS, HOMELESS COUNTYWIDE.

AND WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER ZEKE GREW UP IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA AND WORKED IN HIS CROATIAN FAMILY'S NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE UNTIL LEAVING FOR COLLEGE AND RECEIVING AN ENGINEERING DEGREE FROM CALTECH, ATTENDED MEDICAL SCHOOL AT CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY AND THEN MOVED TO SONOMA COUNTY WITH HIS WIFE DR.

DONNA NORQUIST, TO BEGIN THEIR MEDICAL CAREERS WITH KAISER IN 1982 AND MOVED TO PETALUMA IN 1991.

AND WHEREAS DURING HIS 27 YEARS WITH KAISER IN THE NORTH BAY COUNCIL MEMBER, ZEKE PRACTICED, UH, GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE AND OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE.

AND IN HIS LAST 15 YEARS OF PRACTICE, HE SERVED AS CHIEF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ALSO AS PHYSICIAN LEAD FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICES, ALL THE WHILE COACHING HIS DAUGHTER'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SOCCER AND BASKETBALL TEAMS AND HITTING FLY BALLS TO HIS OUTFIELDER SON.

AND WHEREAS ONCE RETIRED FROM KAISER COUNCIL MEMBER ZUKE TAUGHT SCIENCE AND MATH AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AT CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, TAUGHT PUBLIC HEALTH TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AT UC DAVIS, AND SERVED ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH BAY RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK ON THE BOARDS OF MENTOR ME AND OF PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICE CENTER.

AND ON THE CITY'S YOUTH COMMISSION, THE COUNTY STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY GROUP FOR E FOR CLIMATE ACTION IN 2020.

AND ON THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION, AD HOC COMMITTEE ON EQUITY AND CLIMATE JUSTICE, ONCE ELECTED, DENNIS APPLIED HIS SUPERPOWERS OF OBSERVATION ANALYSIS, COMMON SENSE AND WIT AS AGAIN, A LIAISON TO THE YOUTH COMMITTEE, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMITTEE, THE HEALTH ACTION COUNCIL, THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SONOMA COUNTY MAYORS AND COUNCILS MEMBERS, AND WHOSE PURSUIT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY AND COMPASSION HAS SEEPED INTO EVERY CITY DEPARTMENT AND INFLUENCED EVERY DECISION MADE BY THE CITY COUNCIL SINCE HIS ELECTION IN 2020.

WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER DENNIS POKAY, WHILE ADMITTEDLY FEELING CONSTRAINED BY THE BUREAUCRATIC PROCESS, TOOK OUR CITY TO NEW HEIGHTS BY DIVERSIFYING, UH, COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS, PRIORITIZING RENTER PROTECTION AND RIGHTS, AND PREVENTING UNJUST EVICTIONS AS A TOP COUNCIL GOAL.

IT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE CITY'S IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICE OVERSIGHT, INCLUDING THE HIRING OF AN INDEPENDENT POLICE AUDITOR AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ALL OF WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO ENSURE RESPONSIVE, TRANSPARENT, AND INCLUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CITY AND OUR COMMUNITIES THAT IT SERVES.

AND NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE 16TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2024 AS DENNIS POKAY DAY, AND EXTEND OUR CONGRATULATIONS IN ENDLESS GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR HIS DISTINGUISHED AND FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA.

RESOLUTIONS FROM ASSEMBLYMAN CONNOLLY.

UH, NOW LEST ANYONE THINK THAT ONLY THE CITY ARE VERY FOND OF THESE TWO GENTLEMEN AND APPRECIATE THEIR SERVICES OVER THE YEARS, THEY WERE ALSO, UM, RECEIVED RECOGNITION GIFTS FROM A VARIETY OF, UH, LEGISLATIVE SOURCES, INCLUDING A SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL REC RECOGNITION FROM CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN , A, UH, CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FROM SENATOR MCGUIRE, CALIFORNIA SENATE.

AND, UM, ALSO

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AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, OUR, UH, LOCAL COUNTY SUPERVISOR, UH, DENNIS, UH, DAVID RABBIT IS HERE TO, UH, ALSO HELP ON THE COUNTY LEVEL.

UP TO YOU, DENNIS OR DAVID.

WOW, I GOTTA CHANGE MY NAME.

UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THANK YOU EVERYONE.

I JUST THIS TOO MANY TIMES.

AND YOU KNOW, IT'S GREAT TO SEE ALL OF YOU AND, UH, IT'S GREAT TO SEE THE CROWD HERE TODAY.

AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK.

UH, DEFINITELY WANTED TO BE HERE, UH, TO THANK BOTH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY FOR ALL THEIR YEARS OF SERVICE.

UH, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.

I THINK, UH, UH, DR.

POKAY, I THINK ANYONE WHO THROWS HER, UH, HAT IN THE RING AND RUNS FOR OFFICE, UH, IS TO BE CONGRATULATED AND THANKED.

UH, IT IS, UH, A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE AS YOU PROBABLY HAVE FOUND OUT.

UH, IT'S EVEN MORE UNIQUE TO SERVE IN THAT CAPACITY GOING FORWARD, UH, LEARNING THE THINGS THAT YOU DO AND TRYING TO, UH, MANEUVER THROUGH THE, UH, THE GOVERNMENT BAR BUREAUCRACY, WHICH IS IN THIS WAY, UH, A GOOD, A GOOD PHRASE, UH, BUT ALSO BE, UH, SOMEONE WHO'S PRAGMATIC.

I, I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE LISTENING TO, UH, LIKE SO MANY OF US IN THIS TOWN.

I KNOW THAT'S TRUE OF THE MAYOR.

UH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S SHAGGING FLY BALLS WITH THE, WITH THE KIDS OR COACHING THE SOCCER, ALL THE WHILE, UH, VOLUNTEERING IN ALL THE DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.

UH, THANK YOU.

UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

THANK YOU FOR THE FOUR YEARS THAT YOU SERVED ON THE CITY COUNCIL.

IT'S VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

WE DO HAVE A, A, A GOLD RESOLUTION FOR YOU THAT THE, UH, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DID PASS.

UH, LAST TUESDAY, WE HAD A, UH, WE HAD A SPECIAL CLOSE SESSION TODAY.

I GOT TO BREAK OUT THE, UH, UH, THE DOG, UH, CHRISTMAS, UH, SWEATER.

UH, AND I ALSO WANTED TO BE HERE, OBVIOUSLY FOR, UH, MIKE, UM, ALL YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE.

AND, UH, UM, 24 OVER 26, IS THAT HOW IT WORKS, BUT 24.

BUT, UH, I THINK YOU, YOUR FATHER, WHO ALSO, UH, YOU FOLLOWED IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SERVING IN THE LOCAL CAPACITY, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS REALLY WHERE THE RUBBER HITS THE MO, UH, ROAD AND, UH, REALLY, REALLY BECOMES REAL, UM, WOULD BE VERY PROUD, OBVIOUSLY.

UM, WE'RE ALL PROUD OF THE SERVICE THAT YOU PROVIDED THE CITY.

AND I THINK IF YOU LOOK DOWNTOWN, UH, THE TANGIBLE RESULTS OF YOUR ADVOCACY, UH, ARE THERE, UM, AND CAN'T BE MORE APPRECIATIVE OF THAT OVER THE YEARS.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN ON ALL SIDES OF DIFFERENT THINGS, UH, BUT ALWAYS ENJOYED, UH, THE COLLEGIALITY AND THE, AND THE, UH, RELATIONSHIP THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, GOING FORWARD.

ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR MAKING SURE THAT PETALUMA WAS MOVING IN A, IN A BETTER PLACE.

AND, UM, I THINK, UH, WE'RE ALL VERY PROUD TO LIVE HERE AND APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.

UH, BUT DID WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS HERE TONIGHT TO SAY THANK YOU IN PERSON.

ALSO PRESENT YOU WITH THESE COUPLE OF, UH, GOLD RESOLUTIONS AS WELL.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU AND THANK YOU MAYOR, FOR ALLOWING ME THE TIME.

THANKS MEGAN.

UH, TONIGHT IN THE AUDIENCE, WE ALSO HAVE NANCY HALL BENNETT FROM THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES, AND NATALIE ROGERS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA, TO PLEASE COME FORWARD.

I NEVER GET TO SAY THIS 'CAUSE I'M ALWAYS ON THE OTHER SIDE, BUT HONORABLE MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND CITY MANAGER, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY.

DENNIS, IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO SERVE WITH YOU ON THE HOMELESS COALITION, YOUR INSIGHT, AND TO REALLY HOW WE TACKLE THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE, THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE.

SO, THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. HEALY.

I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPRESS MY HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE KEELEY, FOR HIS MANY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE ON THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL.

YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE, NOT ONLY TO OUR CITY, BUT TO COMMUNITIES ACROSS CALIFORNIA.

THROUGH YOUR LEADERSHIP WITH CAL CITIES AND OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT YOU HAVE SET ON YOUR WORK AND ADVOCACY HAVE HAD MEANINGFUL IMPACT, AND YOUR MENTORSHIP HAS BEEN DEEPLY APPRECIATED.

I AM A PRODUCT OF YOUR MENTORSHIP, SO THANK YOU.

I HAVE TRULY VALUE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU, WHETHER ON THE WATER ADVISORY BOARD OR AS A PART OF CAL CITY'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

AS YOU STEP INTO THIS NEW CHAPTER, I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT'S AHEAD OF YOU AND THE NEW WAYS YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS CITY, THE CITY OF PETALUMA.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR GUIDANCE, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THE CITY OF PETALUMA, TO PETALUMA, AND TO THE CITIES IN CALIFORNIA.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY MANAGER.

THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME HERE TONIGHT.

UM, I'M NANCY HALBE.

I'M WITH THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES.

UM, DR.

POKAY, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TERM, AND I WISH YOU THE BEST IN RETIREMENT.

WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT MIKE, UM, OUR FRIEND, UM, YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY AND TO BEYOND THE CITY.

SPECIFICALLY TONIGHT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR SERVICES TO ALL CITIES IN CALIFORNIA THROUGH YOUR ENGAGEMENT OF CAL CITIES, SPECIFICALLY IN 2017 AS PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH BAY DIVISION FOR CAL CITIES.

IN THIS LEADERSHIP, FOR ALL THE CITIES IN MARIN, SONOMA, AND NAPA AND SOLANO COUNTIES, YOU ALWAYS SERVED AS A COLLABORATIVE AND WARM LEADER, BRINGING AND UPLIFTING NEIGHBORING CITIES TO SHARE THEIR TALENTS AND LEARN AND EMPOWER EACH OTHER TO DO THEIR VERY BEST FOR THE RESIDENTS.

IN ADDITION TO YOUR SERVICES PRESIDENT, YOU SERVED AS CAL STATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, NORTH BAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER SINCE 2016, REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE NORTH BAY CITIES TO VARIOUS POLICY COMMITTEES, INCLUDING PUBLIC SAFETY, GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, AND LABOR RELATIONS, REVENUE AND TAXATION.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY ALSO SERVED THE STATE CITIES WELL BY ENSURING THE CAL, THE TAXPAYER DECEPTION ACT CAMPAIGN DID NOT APPEAR ON THE BALLOT.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND AS A TRUE TESTAMENT TO YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR CHARACTER, YOU ALSO SERVED ON THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE CAL CITY'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WHERE YOUR EFFORTS WILL SHEPHERD IN THE NEW GENERATION TO LEAD WITH THEIR DIVERSE VOICES AT THE HELM.

AND TODAY, YOU, WE ARE JOINED BY THE MAYOR OF SANTA ROSA AND NATALIE ROGERS, WHO, WHEN I MENTIONED TO HER I WAS GONNA BE HERE, SAID I'LL BE THERE TOO.

I DIDN'T ASK.

SHE JUMPED.

UM, AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR MENTORSHIP AND YOUR, UM, ENTHUSIASM TO ENCOURAGE HER TO SEEK AND APPLY A LEADERSHIP ROLE WITHIN CAL CITY'S NORTH BAY DIVISION.

SO SHE'S STANDING RIGHT HERE BEHIND, RIGHT NEXT TO ME AS A TESTAMENT TO IT.

UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ME MENTORSHIP TO MAYOR ROGERS, TO SO MANY MEMBERS OF CAL CITY'S TO MYSELF.

UM, I WISH YOU THE BEST IN RETIREMENT.

I KNOW I'LL STILL SEE YOU.

UM, I APPRECIATE YOU AND I THANK YOU.

UH, TH THIS IS REALLY FUN BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL TOO OFTEN IT GOES UNNOTICED OR UNDERAPPRECIATED THE HOURS AND EFFORTS SPENT, UH, BY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND, UM, SPENT HELPING LIVES AND HELPING THE COMMUNITY.

AND IF THERE'S ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WOULD WISH TO SPEAK, UH, TO COME TO THE PODIUM AND, UH, EXPRESS A THANKS TO OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, PLEASE DO SO.

AND, UM, START BY INTRODUCING YOURSELF.

I AM JODY JOHNSON, AND THIS IS TIM PORTUS.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY AND COUNCIL MEMBER POST K, WE PRESENT YOU A CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION EACH THE RESIDENTS OF PETALUMA MOBILE PARKS, YOUNGSTOWN, CAPRI, LITTLE WOODS, ROYAL OAKS, PETALUMA STATES, LEISURE LAKES, AND THE COTTAGES.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR COURAGE AND KEEPING RESIDENTS HOUSED IN HOMES THEY OWN AND IN SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF 900 RESIDENTS.

YOUR COURAGE AND YOUR SUPPORT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY OUR RESIDENTS.

YOUR MARK ON OUR FUTURE WILL BE FELT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.

AND IT'S SIGNED BY YOUNGSTOWN, PETALUMA STATES, CAPRI, LITTLE WOODS LEISURE LAKE, ROYAL OAKS COTTAGES, AND NEWLY CREATED PETALUMA MOBILE RESIDENCE UNITED.

THE MIC IS STILL THERE.

HOPEFULLY, WE'RE STILL AROUND.

UM, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, MEMBERS OF CITY MANAGER.

UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UM, OF THE 24 YEARS, MIKE, THAT YOU'VE BEEN IN, UH, ON COUNCIL, I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF STANDING 20 OF THOSE YEARS WORKING ALONGSIDE YOU.

AND IN MY POSITION, I HAVE BEEN VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE AND ALWAYS BEING THERE WHEN I NEED TO PICK THE PHONE UP.

IT'S MEANT SUCH A LOT TO ME AND TO OUR ORGANIZATIONS, THE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION AND THE VISTA PROGRAM.

AND YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THAT EAR OF REASON FOR ME WHEN, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE WHICH DIRECTION TO

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GO.

SO, ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT OF ALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS IN MAKING DOWNTOWN PETALUMA AND PETALUMA CITYWIDE WHAT IT IS.

AND YOUR LEGACY IS SOMETHING THAT WE'LL ALL SHARE FOR THE NEXT 20, 40, 60 YEARS.

SO FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH, MY BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND MY STAFF, UM, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR THAT COMMITMENT AND SERVICE TO THE CITY OF PETALUMA AND ALSO DENNIS POST.

ON TO THE, UH, THE STANDING AGENDA FOR THE EVENING.

UM, IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS, I APPRECIATE YOUR VALUES AND YOUR GUIDANCE FOR OUR CITY.

IT REALLY HAS SHOWN INTO YOUR SHORT TENOR IN, UM, SOME OF THE WAYS THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH THE HOMELESS AND THE SUPPORT FOR MANY OF THE VULNERABLE GROUPS.

SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND SERVICE AND GOING, GOING ON.

ARE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER OSA, HEY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? SURE.

UM, I'LL BE QUICK.

UM, YOU WANNA, I GUESS I'D START BY THANKING, UH, E EVERYONE WHO LED ME TO THIS, UH, UM, UM, SERVICE.

UM, THANKS PE TO THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR ME AND THOSE THAT DIDN'T, UH, I'M SURE THEY HAD A GOOD REASON.

UM, I AM, I'M MASSIVELY, UH, THANKFUL TO ALL THE STAFF OF THE CITY.

UM, I CAN'T IMAGINE THERE'S A CITY WITH BETTER STAFF.

I CERTAINLY HAVE NOT BEEN IN ANY WORKING PLACE, AND I WON'T NAME NAMES WHERE THE STAFF WAS, UH, SO, UH, CONSISTENTLY, UM, HELPFUL AND, UM, PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR WORK.

AND, UH, FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO THANK, UM, UM, MY WIFE WHO'S HERE TONIGHT, DOESN'T LIKE THESE KINDS OF THINGS VERY MUCH.

DONNA NORQUIST.

UM, SHE'S, UH, KIND OF BEEN SEMI-RETIRED SINCE WE, UH, ADOPTED A COUPLE OF CHILDREN.

UM, BUT, UH, I JUST, YOU KNOW, UH, SHE DESERVES SOME RECOGNITION TOO.

AND WHAT I WOULD JUST WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW IS THAT SHE WAS THE FIRST DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF A DEPARTMENT AT KAISER SANTA ROSA IN 1982.

JUST THREE MONTHS AFTER WE JOINED KAISER, UH, SHE WAS PROMOTED TO THAT POSITION.

SO, UH, THAT'S WHAT I'VE, WELL, LET ME, THERE'S ONE OTHER THING I'M PROUD OF THAT I DON'T GET TO SAY MUCH, IS THAT I'M CO HOLDER OF SIX NCAA PLACE KICKING RECORDS.

OKAY? DON'T CLAP TOO LONG.

THREE OF THREE OF THEM ARE FOR HIGHEST EXTRA POINT PERCENTAGE, A HUNDRED PERCENT.

SO I'M TIED WITH MANY PEOPLE IN THAT REGARD.

I WAS THREE FOR THREE GAME SEASON AND CAREER.

AND, UH, I'M ALSO TIED FOR THE LOWEST FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE, OH, FOR ONE 0% GAME SEASON CAREER.

SO THAT'S SIX BY MY ACCOUNTANT.

THANK YOU FOLKS FOR, UH, UM, SUPPORT THESE LAST FOUR YEARS.

THANKS A LOT.

BYE.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.

WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR NOT READING ALL THE PLAQUES THAT HAVE PILED UP BACK HERE, .

I'M GONNA NEED A NEW WALL.

UM, SUPERVISOR RABBITT MENTIONED MY FATHER WHO, UH, SERVED FOR 12 YEARS ON THE SANTA ROSA CITY COUNCIL.

AND WHEN HE WAS STILL ALIVE, HE, UH, LIKED TO SAY THAT MY DOING THIS WAS AN INHERITED FORM OF INSANITY, .

BUT IT REALLY HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE PRIVILEGE TO, UH, TO WORK FOR THIS GREAT CITY FOR, FOR 24 YEARS.

UM, I, I OFTEN, UH, SAY, AND I THINK IT'S ACCURATE, THAT SERVING ON THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL IS LIKE TRYING TO GET A REFRESHING DRINK OF WATER FROM A FIRE HYDRANT.

UM, IT, IT JUST DOESN'T STOP.

AND, UM, SO I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE COMMUNITY, UM, PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR ME, PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T FOR ALLOWING ME TO SERVE FOR ALL THIS TIME.

AND, UM, I ECHO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER POST CASE, UH, COMPLIMENTS TO CITY STAFF.

UM, THEY'RE TOPNOTCH.

THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN TOPNOTCH.

UM, I'M WORKING ON MY FOURTH CITY MANAGER RIGHT NOW, FIVE, IF YOU COUNT DIFFERENTLY.

AND, UM, THEY'VE ALL BEEN GREAT PEOPLE, AND WE HAVE GREAT STAFF REPORTING TO THEM, AND IT'S A REAL PRIVILEGE.

AND, UM, IT'S A GREAT HONOR TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH THEM.

AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT, I KNOW A LOT OF THE, UM, PUBLIC ATTENTION GETS FOCUSED ON, UH, WHEN COUNCIL MEMBERS VOTE DIFFERENT WAY ON ISSUES.

MOST OF THE THINGS WE VOTE ON ARE UNANIMOUS, NOT ALL, BUT MOST OF 'EM ARE.

UM, BUT WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS THAT WHEN WE DO VOTE DIFFERENT WAYS ON THINGS, THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY QUESTION IN MY MIND, BUT THAT EVERYONE IS DOING WHAT THEY THINK IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THIS GREAT TOWN.

AND, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN A CONSTANT THROUGHOUT.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

TAKE CARE.

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UH, THANK YOU.

UM, AND, UH, AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY ALL THE COUNCIL WISHES YOU OUR BEST AND, UM, AND, UH, WISHES YOU THE BEST REJOINING THOSE, UH, HOURS TO YOUR FAMILY AGAIN, THAT YOU'VE SPENT WITH US ON SO MANY MONDAY NIGHTS AND, AND WITHOUT FAMILY SUPPORT.

I KNOW, I KNOW NONE OF US WOULD MAKE THIS THROUGH THIS.

SO, UH, WELCOME BACK TO YOUR FAMILIES .

SO, UM, MOVING

[REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION]

I DO WANT TO REPORT THAT WE HAD A CLOSED SESSION THIS EVENING, UH, PRIOR TO THIS, UH, GENERAL MEETING.

AND, UM, AND MAYBE I'LL, I'LL LET, UH, A FEW FRIENDS AND FAMILY DUCK OUT HERE.

AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.

WHY DON'T I TURN IT OVER TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO, UH, ADVISE US ON, UH, ON HOW THE CLOSED SESSION WENT THIS EVENING.

WELL, IT WENT WELL.

AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, THERE'S NO ACTION TO REPORT.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

AS, AS IS, UH, AS IS TYPICAL OF OUR CLOSED SESSIONS, UH, THERE'S USUALLY NOT A LOT OF REPORT OUT.

SO, UM, THAT MOVES US TO GENERAL

[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]

PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING.

AND DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENT ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST 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, AND DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES TOTALING NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES.

NOW, I'D LIKE TO TURN THIS OVER TO THE CLERK.

DID WE, UH, RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE MEETING? WE DID.

WE RECEIVED 10 COMMENTS, UH, IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING, AND THOSE ARE ALL POSTED TO THE WEBSITE.

UH, AND AT THIS POINT, I WILL START A 32ND CLOCK.

UM, FOR THE 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 AND WE'LL LET THE CLOCK RUN OUT.

BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE HAVE ANY OTHER SPEAKER CARDS COMING IN.

WE HAVE A 13 CARDS, UH, WISHING TO SPEAK TONIGHT, AND 13 WILL GIVE US A 92ND CLOCK FOR EACH PERSON TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.

AND SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE JODY JOHNSON TO SPEAK FIRST TO BE FOLLOWED BY KATE POLAND.

GOOD EVENING AGAIN.

JUST SINCE YOUR LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, THE RESIDENTS OF YOUNGSTOWN, LITTLE WOODS AND CAPRI ARE EXPERIENCING MORE HARDSHIPS, MORE SERVICE REDUCTIONS, MORE RETALIATION, AND THE SEVERE INTENT NOT TO RENDER AID IN ANY WEATHER OR EMERGENCY.

LITTLE WOODS LOOKS LIKE A PRISON IN BACK WITH FULLY FENCED IN PARKING THAT HAS BEEN THERE AS TO USE FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

THERE IS NO OPENING TO ENTER WHAT USED TO BE STRIPED PARKING SPOTS WITH NUMBERED LANES THAT WERE THE ADDRESSES OF SAID RESIDENTS.

THIS REDUCTION OF SERVICE AS PARKING IS AN AMENITY AND CANNOT BE DENIED WITHOUT PROPER COMPENSATION TO EACH RESIDENT.

MANY WHO DO NOT HAVE TWO PARKING SPACES TO PARK THEIR CARS OR TRUCKS.

LITTLE WOODS RESIDENTS HAD A SMALL AMOUNT OF RELIEF WITH THE SECOND ARBITRATION DECISION, RENDERING A ZERO AWARD OF INCREASE, BUT AT WHAT COST? BLEEDING RESIDENTS DRY IN LEGAL FEES, KNOWING THERE IS AN IMBALANCE OF INCOME STRESSING THE RESIDENTS TO A POINT OF DEPRESSION, HOMELESSNESS AND MORE ARE THE PLANS THROUGHOUT THESE THREE MOBILE PARK OWNERS IN PETALUMA.

THERE MUST BE REMEDY.

PUBLIC OUTRAGE AND MOBILE PARK OWNERS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LAW, TO AN ORDINANCE, AND

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TO THE ZONING.

YOUNGSTOWN RESIDENTS ARE BEING DENIED BASIC EMERGENCY SERVICES, CALLS AND EMAILS NOT RETURNED FROM MANAGEMENT, EMAILS HAVING TO BE SENT TO ATTORNEYS OF RECORD FOR THE PARK OWNERS JUST SATURDAY, ONCE AGAIN, SENIOR CITIZENS HAVING DEFEND FOR THEMSELVES.

THANK YOU KAY.

POLAND TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UM, MANUS PARKER.

OH, SORRY.

WHEN CALLING OUR CITY AND POLICE, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE QUICK RESPONSE TO SIMPLY MAKE SURE WE ARE OKAY.

YOU ARE LIFELINED AT THIS POINT, AND THERE IS NOT ONE RESIDENT WHO DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WHEN YOU MADE A CHOICE OF SERVICE TO PETALUMA, THAT YOU EARNESTLY REPRESENT AND SUPPORT ALL OF US.

REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES, OUR RESIDENT HAS SUPPLIED VIDEOTAPE SHOWING YOUNG CHILDREN RIDING BIKES WITH TRAINING WHEELS UNATTENDED BEHIND CARPORTS IN THE STREETS.

YOUNGSTOWN SENIOR PARK IS NON-EXISTENT ANYMORE SIMPLY BECAUSE PARK OWNERS ARE IGNORING THE VERY RULES OF THE SENIOR PARK OVERLAY.

THE FLOODING NOW IN BOTH THE ATMOSPHERIC RIVER AND THE RAIN THIS PAST SATURDAY WITH HIGH WINDS, HAS WREAKED HAVOC WITH OUR MOBILE HOMES AND OUR RESIDENTS.

WEATHER DISASTERS OCCUR, BUT WHO WOULD MANAGE, BUT WHO WOULD MANAGE AN EMERGENCY WITH NO ACTION OR DISREGARD FOR THE VULNERABILITY OF SENIOR CITIZENS? IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE.

CAPRI MOBILE PARK WAS MADE A COMPLETE FIRE LANE.

IT'S ABSURD THAT THE AREAS FOR PARKING RESIDENTS HAVE HAD FOR YEARS ARE GONE OVERNIGHT, THAT THEY HAVE HANGING OVER THEIR HEAD, TOWING, EVEN IF AN INCH OF THEIR CAR STICKS OUT FROM THE CARPORT.

AND THE SAME BAD ACTOR PARK OWNERS AS LITTLE WOODS REMOVING SEVERING SERVICES WITHOUT MRL OR STATE OR CITY NOTICE, CAPRI RESIDENTS ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE CREDIT BACK OF OVERCHARGING.

MONTHS HAVE GONE BY NOW THAT CAPRI OWNERS HAVE MONEY THEY WERE NOT OWED, BUT HELD OVER THEIR HEADS OF RESIDENCE THAT THEY WOULD BE EVICTED IF NOT PAID EVERY MONTH.

OH, UH, MS. BARK TO BE FOLLOWED BY KELLY WALKER EVERY MONTH.

IN FACT, EVERY WEEK MOBILE HOME RESIDENTS IN ALL THREE PARKS ARE BEING DENIED.

SERVICES ARE LIVING IN A MOBILE HOME, MOBILE HOME PARK UNDER INTIMIDATION, RETALIATION, AND DISREGARD FOR THEIR RIGHTS.

WE FEEL THAT THE LAWSUIT WHERE WMA AND BILL FEENEY WERE SEEKING AN INJUNCTION TO DELAY THE DISILLUSION OF THE PART OF AB 2 7 82 THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE PREDATORY LONG-TERM LEASES.

DENYING RESIDENTS TO BE PROTECTED UNDER THE STABLE, UNDER RENT STABILIZATION WILL BE DENIED.

WE ARE RESIDENTS WHO ARE NOT SEEKING A HANDOUT.

WE BOUGHT OUR HOMES.

WE ARE HUMBLE AND WE LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS, AND WE OBEY THE ORDINANCES LAWS AND RULES.

YOU, THE CITY OF PETALUMA, ARE COURAGE, COURAGEOUS, AND STAND UP FOR THOSE LESS FORTUNATE.

WE SEE YOUR EFFORTS, YOUR INTENT TO UNDERSTAND AND TO MAKE CHOICES FOR YOUR RESIDENTS.

AND WE ARE PROUD THAT WE LIVE IN THE CITY WITH YOU.

KELLY WALKER.

WE'RE GONNA SKIP HER.

AND TIM PORTUS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY ANGELUS, UH, CRUZ.

THANK YOU COUNSEL.

AND EVERYONE HERE THAT DOES EVERYTHING FOR THE COUNCIL.

YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR PLIGHT, WE'VE TOLD YOU, AND WE ARE AN EXTREME TO SEE PATIENT LOOKING FORWARD FOR HOW THIS IS GONNA GO, BECAUSE WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET AWAY WITH THIS.

IT'S JUST NOT REALISTIC.

THERE'S TOO MANY OF US THAT ARE HUMAN TO EACH OTHER.

THEM DOING THIS IS, IS AWFUL.

I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY GOT SPAWNED.

I'M SORRY.

AND I'M SORRY THAT ALL OF YOU, EVERYBODY IS THROWN INTO THIS MESS.

I'M SORRY THAT YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT, AND, BUT PLEASE DO.

YOU KNOW, BIGGER HAMMER.

THAT'S ALL I GOT.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THESE PEOPLE.

THERE'S A LOT OF SUFFRAGE OUT HERE, EVEN AT MY PARK A LOT.

IT'S UNREALISTIC.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN BE THERE, LIVE THERE, DRIVE BY AND DO NOTHING AND SAY NOTHING.

BEING MANAGERS OR ASSISTANTS OR NEW ASSISTANTS THAT APPEAR OCCASIONALLY, RECENTLY.

I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE.

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I THANK YOU.

AND I THANK YOU BOTH OF YOU.

YOU'VE BEEN OUT TO OUR PLACE.

AND YOU AND YOU.

THANK YOU TO ANGIE CRUZ TO BE FOLLOWED BY CATHERINE BOBOWSKI.

HI EVERYONE.

I WAS PART OF THE LETTER, SO I'M JUST GONNA SPEAK OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WITH NOTHING PREPARED.

BUT, UM, I COME FROM LITTLE WOODS MOBILE HOME PARK, UM, AND I'M VERY IN TUNE WITH, UH, WHAT SOME OF THE PARKS ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.

AND JUST TO ECHO, UH, WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT YOUNGSTOWN, IT WAS REALLY TERRIBLE.

I SAW PHOTOS OF HOW BAD THE WATER WAS.

THERE WAS SENIORS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, GET THE WATER TO GO DOWN.

UM, IT WASN'T PRETTY.

THERE'S PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE SICK BECAUSE OF ALL THE WORK THAT THEY HAD TO DO.

AND IT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE, UM, THAT THEIR, UM, MANAGEMENT TEAM DID NOTHING ABOUT IT AND HASN'T FOLLOWED UP WITH THEM.

UH, AND IT'S NOT THE FIRST RAINY SEASON.

UM, I ALSO WANTED TO ECHO SOME OF THE PARKING STUFF, UM, FOR BOTH LITTLE WOODS AND CAPRI.

IS THAT GOING? NO, IT'S OKAY.

I JUST THOUGHT I WAS OUT OF TIME.

UM, BUT JUST TO, TO ECHO ON, ON THE, ON THE PARKING ISSUE.

UM, TO SOME PEOPLE IT MAY SEEM LIKE, OKAY, PARKING, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE BIG ISSUE? YOU JUST PARK YOUR CAR A LITTLE BIT MORE FAR AWAY.

UM, IT MAYBE DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A BIG ISSUE AT FIRST, BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF FOLKS, UM, THAT ARE PARKING MILES AWAY.

UM, SOMETIMES THERE ARE YOUNG WOMEN WHO HAVE TO GO TO WORK, UM, COMING BACK REALLY LATE AT NIGHT.

MOST OF OUR, OUR CITY IS, IS, UM, YOU KNOW, STREETLIGHTS ARE WELL, BUT THERE'S SOME AREAS THAT MAYBE NEED A LITTLE WORK.

AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, A WORKSHOP LAST WEEK.

UM, SOME PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH CONDITIONS, SO WALKING MILES AWAY LATE AT NIGHT ISN'T SOMETHING THAT IS EASY TO DO, EVEN IF IT'S AN ALL AGE PARK.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.

UM, AND I THANK YOU BOTH, UM, DR. DENNIS POKAY AND MR. MCKEE FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE TO, UH, MAKE OUR COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

CHANGING THE LANGUAGE TO THOSE, TO THAT LOCATION.

CATHERINE BOBOWSKI TO BE FOLLOWED BY BRANDON LEVINE.

YES, I LIVE AT THE L WOODS VILLA MOBILE HOME PARK.

I'M BEING CONSTANTLY HARASSED BY THE ONSITE MANAGER'S FAMILY AT SPACE LEVEL IN, THEY'RE PARKING AGAINST MY PLACE.

THEY'RE VANDALIZED MY FENCE.

THEY'RE INVASION OF MY PRIVACY, DISTURBING MY PEACE.

THEY SHINE OUR FLASHLIGHTS IN MY WINDOW.

AND ALSO TOO, US RESIDENTS, THE, THE HARM HARMONY IS PURPOSELY SHUTTING OFF OUR WATER PURPOSELY SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK.

THEY'RE NOT DOING ANY REPAIRS.

THEY'RE USING IT AS RETALIATION ALL THE TIME.

THIS HAS TO STOP NOW.

AND THESE HARMONIES NEED TO STOP HAVING THIS TO BE DRAGGING ON FOR YEARS AND YEARS.

THEY NEED, THEY NEED TO, TO BE SHUT DOWN.

HARMONY, PLEASE DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW.

WE'RE TIRED OF THIS.

THANK YOU, BRANDON LEVINE TO BE FOLLOWED BY DEBORAH BARRETA.

GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND UH, COMMUNITY.

MY NAME IS BRANDON LEVINE.

I'M HERE TO ADDRESS MERCY WELLNESS.

RECENT DENIAL FOR CANNABIS APPLICATION.

WE GOT THAT ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER OUR SUBMISSION.

THE DECISION RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT FAIRNESS, TRANSPARENCY, AND WHETHER THE BEST CANDIDATE IS BEING CONSIDERED TO SERVE.

PETALUMA MERCY WELLNESS HAS OPERATED FOR OVER 14 YEARS AS THE MOST TRUSTED, COMPLIANT, AND COMMUNITY FOCUSED CANNABIS OPERATOR.

WE'RE THE HIGHEST TAX GENERATING BUS CANNABIS BUSINESS IN THE REGION.

WE HAVE EARNED OVER 1,850 LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, MOSTLY FROM PETALUMA.

ADDITIONALLY, I SERVE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF CANNABIS CONTROL DCC ADVISORY COMMITTEE HIGHLIGHTING MY LEADERSHIP AND LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE.

YET THIS PROCESS IS LACK TRANSPARENCY.

TWO YEARS AGO, YOU GUYS HAD A COUNCIL MEETING WHERE A PROJECT WAS PROPOSED AND TALKED ABOUT ALREADY PICKING ANOTHER CANNABIS APPLICANT.

THAT LOCATION IS, UH, CATTLEMEN'S, WHICH DID NOT FIT THE STATE SETBACKS.

AND HEALY IN PARTICULAR SAID, JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN BY

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THIS DECISION DISREGARDS OVERWHELMING COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND PROVEN BENEFITS.

MERCY WELLNESS IS THE BEST FIT FOR PETALUMA, AND I URGE THE COUNCIL TO PRIORITIZE TRANSPARENCY AND RELOOK AT THE MY APPLICATION.

THANK YOU, DEBORAH BERETTA TO BE FOLLOWED BY DAVID RUBIN.

GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY.

MY NAME IS DEBORAH BERETTA AND I, UH, LIVE RIGHT AT THE CORNER OF SPYGLASS SILVERADO, WHICH IS ANOTHER AGENDA TONIGHT.

BUT I'M HERE TO ADVISE YOU THAT THE STOP SIGN IS ON THE GROUND.

AND WE, WE HAD A BIG STORM ON SATURDAY AND IT BLEW OVER.

NOW THAT STOP SIGN USED TO BE CEMENTED INTO THE CORNER.

I'VE, I'VE BEEN LIVING THERE MAYBE 13 YEARS.

AND ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, IT BLEW OVER, I THINK, IN ANOTHER STORM.

SOMEHOW.

EITHER SOMEBODY HIT IT OR WHAT, BUT IT, IT FELL AND THE CITY CAME OUT TO PUT IT BACK.

BUT THEY DIDN'T PUT IT INTO CEMENT.

THEY JUST STUCK IT IN THE, IN THE DIRT IN THE GROUND, IN THE ISLAND PART OF THAT CORNER.

UM, ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS DID LET YOU ALL KNOW OR CALL THIS CITY REGARDING THE FACT THAT THAT THING'S LOOSE.

IT'S BEEN LOOSE FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, SO IT'S BLOWN OVER.

I WAS GONNA DRAG IT HERE AND GIVE IT TO YOU, BUT I WAS ADVISED NOT TO .

THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, HERE'S YOUR SIGN, PLEASE PUT IT BACK.

BUT IT NEEDS TO BE CEMENTED IN.

IT IS NOT.

AND IT'S A HAZARD.

EVERY SINGLE TIME THERE'S A STORM, IT JUST BLOWS RIGHT OVER INTO THE STREET.

DAVID RUBIN SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY, UM, LAUREN NET.

DELSON.

MENDELSON, GOOD EVENING.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

AS A LOCAL RESIDENT, HOMEOWNER AND LONGTIME CANNABIS ENTHUSIAST, I'M DEEPLY DISTURBED BY, BY WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR, UH, TAKE PLACE DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS OF BRINGING A CANNABIS DISPENSARY HERE TO PETALUMA, THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND WHAT NOW STRONGLY SHOWS AS COLLUSION BEHIND THE SCENES IS VOID OF THE VALUES I KNOW TO BE DEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY.

AN ARTICLE FROM LAST YEAR IN THE PRESS, DEMOCRATS STATES THAT DAMON PORTER, CEO OF DYNAMIC REAL ESTATE PARTNERS SAID HE AND HIS TEAM ARE CONSIDERING A GOOD BLENDED REVITALIZATION OF THE CATTLEMAN'S PROPERTY.

HE SAID HE'D ALSO LIKE TO INCLUDE AN UNNAMED CANNABIS TENANT ON THE PROPERTY THAT I QUOTE, WHO WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE CITY AND IS WAITING IN THE WINGS OF PETALUMA TO SERVE YOU.

NOBODY EVER, NOBODY ELSE HAD A CHANCE, DID THEY? THIS WAS CLEARLY A SETUP FOR A TOWN WHERE I'VE SEEN HUNDREDS MARCH DOWN THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN AND ON EAST WASHINGTON FIGHTING FOR EQUALITY.

THIS IS A MAJOR SLAP IN THE FACE AND GOES AGAINST OUR SONOMA COUNTY WAY.

FOR A TOWN THAT IS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED FAMILY BUSINESSES WHO PUT THEIR COMMUNITY FIRST, THIS IS A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR YOU, TO ALLOW OTHERS TO SPEND THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY ON AN APPLICATION PROCESS, SECURING REAL ESTATE, MAKING SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS FOR CHANGE, ONLY TO FIND OUT IN THE NEWSPAPER THAT THEY NEVER HAD A CHANCE AND SOMEBODY ELSE GOT SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT'S FLAT OUT WRONG.

AND IT SENDS THE REPUBLIC A MESSAGE THAT WILL BRING UPON A RECKONING OF THIS COUNCIL, IF NOT REVISITED TO BE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL PROCESS.

THAT I PROMISE THAT IS WHAT WAS PRESENTED, A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL PROCESS.

SPECIFICALLY, I'LL CALL ON THE COUNCIL TO GIVE MERCY WELLNESS ANOTHER CHANCE.

UH, FOR ALMOST 15 YEARS, THEY'VE SERVED THE COMMUNITY AND THEY LIVE AND BREATHE THE SONOMA COUNTY WAY.

THIS HAS SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS.

WE WE'RE BETTER.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LAURA MENDELSON.

SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY ASHLEY BROWN.

GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY STAFF.

MY NAME IS LAUREN MENDELSON.

I'M THE JUNIOR PARTNER AT THE LAW OFFICE OF OMAR FIGUEROA.

UH, WE'RE A LOCAL CANNABIS, UH, LAW FIRM HERE IN SONOMA COUNTY.

I'M ALSO ON THE BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL CANNABIS BAR ASSOCIATION, CALIFORNIA NORMAL, THE SONOMA COUNTY CANNABIS ALLIANCE.

AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS, UH, SINCE 2021 WHEN I DRAFTED THE DRAFT ORDINANCE FOR CANNABIS RETAIL USES.

THAT LOOKS LIKE MUCH OF IT, ENDED UP MAKING IT INTO THE FINAL ORDINANCE.

I'M HERE TODAY, UH, ON BEHALF OF MY CLIENT, MERCY WELLNESS, UH, WHO AS YOU HEARD, SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION, UH, AT FOR RETAIL FACILITY HERE AND WAS DENIED.

AND NOW THEY, UH, THE APPLICATION WAS QUALIFIED.

UH, THEY'RE A LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESS WITH MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, A LONG LIST OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND A DEMONSTRATED TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS.

THEY'RE NOT CALLING FOR TRANSPARENCY AND FAIRNESS IN THE LICENSING PROCESS, WHICH HAS THUS FAR BEEN OPAQUE AT BEST.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR RELEASED A REPORT ON LOCAL CANNABIS PERMITTING, NAMELY HOW CITIES AND COUNTIES CAN IMPROVE THEIR PERMITTING PRACTICES TO BOLSTER PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

I SENT A PDF OF THIS REPORT TO YOU EARLIER TODAY, AND I HAVE A COPY WITH ME.

SO AS IMPARTIALITY STATEMENTS FROM REVIEWERS HAVING TRACKING AND DOCUMENTATION PROCESS AND OTHER, UM, METHODS OF PREVENTING, UH, UNFAIR PROCESSES, THEY'RE SERIOUS QUESTIONS

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AS TO WHETHER WHAT HAPPENED HERE, ALIGNED WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

ADDITIONALLY, DUE PROCESS REQUIRES THAT AN APPLICATION BE EVALUATED ON ITS MERITS.

FAILURE TO DO SO IS A VIOLATION OF THE US AND CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONS.

I URGE THE CITY OF PETALUMA TO UPHOLD THE BASIC RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT HOW IT CONDUCTED THIS LICENSING PROCESS.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ASHLEY BROWN, TO BE FOLLOWED BY THERESA TEMA.

UM, I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH BRANDON LEVI AT MERCY WELLNESS SINCE 2015.

I'VE BEEN A PART OF THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY SINCE 2012, SUPPORTING HUNDREDS OF RETAILERS ACROSS CALIFORNIA AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS.

THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE, I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND WHAT MAKES A RETAILER TRULY STAND OUT.

AND MERCY WELLNESS IS ONE OF THE BEST.

WHEN CANNA CRAFT ONE OF THE LARGEST MEDICINAL CANNABIS MANUFACTURERS FACE CHALLENGES, BRANDON, HIS AND HIS TEAM SELFLESSLY STEPPED UP, ENSURING PATIENTS CONTINUE TO HAVE SAFE, A, UH, SAFE ACCESS TO CLEAN, CLEAN MEDICINE THAT SPEAKS TO THEIR INTEGRITY, LEADERSHIP, AND COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE.

MERCY WELLNESS IS MORE THAN JUST A RETAILER.

THEY'RE A TRUSTED PARTNER AND PROVEN ASSET TO ANY CITY.

FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM, I STRONGLY URGE THE COUNCIL TO APPROVE THEIR APPLICATION FOR A THIRD LOCATION.

PETALUMA WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT FROM A BUSINESS OF THIS CALIBER.

OUR LAST SPEAKER IS GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL.

YOU'VE SEEN ME HERE MANY, MANY YEARS.

I'M THE OWNER OF 51 0 1 MONTERO WAY.

I AM THE ONE THAT, UM, DONATED THE P PUTT GOLF IN 2015 WHEN MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY.

IT TOOK THREE YEARS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO, TO APPROVE IT.

AND BY THE TIME YOU APPROVED IT, THE, THE TENANT RAN OUTTA MONEY AND HAD TO GIVE IT UP.

EVER SINCE THEN, I HAD TALKED TO YOU GUYS ABOUT CANNABIS.

IN 2018, EAGLE EYE LEASED THE BUILDING FOR ME FOR CANNABIS.

HE'S BEEN WORKING WITH A LOT OF YOU ON THE BOARD TO PUT CANNABIS IN MY BUILDING.

MY BUILDING FOR NINE YEARS HAS BEEN CAUGHT ON FIRE THREE TIMES.

IT HAS BEEN VANDALIZED EACH WEEK.

IT HAS BEEN GRAFFITIED AT LEAST 19 TIMES IN THE LAST YEAR.

I AM BEGGING THIS BOARD TO ALLOW MERCY WELLNESS TO REAPPLY AND, AND GO INTO MY BUILDING.

I HAVE A RIGHT TOO.

I PAY TAXES, I PAY FEMA.

I PAY PROPERTY TAX, I PAY EVERYTHING.

I WAS SO PROUD OF THE BOARD WHEN YOU APPROVED MY BUILDING AT THE FIRST CANNABIS MEETING FOR COMMERCIAL TO HAVE THE CANNABIS THERE.

'CAUSE IT WAS OUT OF THE WAY.

IT HAD PLENTY OF PARKING.

THERE WAS NO KIDS ANYWHERE NEAR IT.

I WAS SURPRISED WHEN MR. HEALEY AT THE VERY END SAID, MAKE CATTLEMAN'S WORK.

NOW I FIND OUT A CANNABIS COMPANY'S GOING INTO CATTLEMAN'S, AND MY APPLICANT, WHO WAS THE BEST APPLICANT FOR THE JOB, IS NOW DENIED BEFORE EVEN GOING TO AN INTERVIEW.

I PLEASE ASK THE BOARD TO ALLOW WELCOME.

MY GUILTY.

BRING IT BACK UP HERE TO THE DIOCESE TO, UH, EACH OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO REPORT IN ON THEIR ACTIVITY, THEIR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, AND, UH, OTHER BUSINESS.

AND THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING, AND I'LL

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AND I'LL START WITH OUR VICE MAYOR, MR. RI.

PROJECTS GOING ON NOW FOR, FOR WATER REUSE AND PROJECTS AND FOR RESILIENCY, UM, AND IS WORKING ON, UH, SEVERAL CLIMATE CHANGES.

SO, UH, THIS LAST TWO WEEKS, UM, I HAD A PRIVILEGE OF ATTENDING SEVERAL, UH, MEETINGS, UM, THAT COMBINED A LOT OF, UH, WATER ISSUES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES THROUGHOUT.

SO I'M GONNA TRY AND KEEP THIS AS BRIEF AS I CAN, BUT THERE'S LOTS OF REALLY GOOD NEW INFORMATION I WANNA BE ABLE TO SHARE.

UH, FIRST OFF, A FEW THINGS, NOT THAT, BUT, UM, COMING UP THIS THURSDAY, I'LL PRESENTING AT THE, UH, COURT OF HONOR AN EAGLE SCOUT.

UM, IT IS A FEMALE EAGLE SCOUT THIS YEAR, UH, RECEIVING THE AWARD, UH, AND THE HONOR FOR THAT.

UM, AND SO IT'S REALLY NICE.

THIS WILL BE THE, UH, THE THIRD ONE WITHIN THAT ONE TROOP THERE.

SO WE REALLY HAVE PROGRESSED WELL FOR, FOR THE SCOUTS TO MOVE FORWARD IN THAT DIRECTION.

UM, I PARTICIPATED WITH DAILY ACTS AND WE PLANTED LA OFER PARK.

I THINK WELL OVER 500 PLANTS WENT IN ON THAT ONE.

THERE WERE RIBBON CUTTINGS AT THE, UH, BASIN DOCKS AT LUMA ICE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THOSE.

AND AT A, UH, TALK IL HEARD FROM, UH, UM, DAMON CONNOLLY, UM, WHO IS OUR ASSEMBLYMAN, AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PREPARATIONS.

THE CALIFORNIA, UM, LEGISLATION IS WORKING ON TO COUNTER, UH, WHAT'S WHAT'S COMING UP IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS, BUT WHERE HUGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT IS BEING DONE THERE.

UM, AT THE NORTH BAY WATER RESOURCE, UH, REUSE ASSOCIATION, UM, THAT WAS THIS MORNING, UM, FOUND OUT THAT PETALUMA IS, IS HAS SEVERAL

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SO THAT'S ALL BEING WORKED ON.

BUT THIS IS A TEAM OF FOLKS THAT'S FROM THE WHOLE NORTH BAY, UH, PARTICIPATING IN THIS.

AND WE ARE, UH, FOCUSED ON AS WELL AS THE LAS COLINAS AREA FOR SEA LEVEL RISE.

UM, AND JUST AS A NOTE, JUST, UH, THE SERIOUS OF THIS, UM, OVER THE BAY AREA, UH, IS STILL EXPECTED.

THERE IS $110 BILLION NEED TO ACTUALLY DO WORK.

THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA COST TO FOR SEA LEVEL RISE.

AND IN SONOMA COUNTY, MOSTLY PETALUMA, THE CURRENT ESTIMATE IS $8 BILLION IS GONNA, WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE FOR SEA LEVEL RISE, UH, RESILIENCY, UM, TO REPORT ON THAT.

SO ANYWAY, THAT'S THE FIGURES THAT WERE THROWING AT ME THIS MORNING.

SO THAT'S PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL.

UM, THE NORTH BAY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, UM, UH, ALSO HAD ITS MEETING THIS, THIS, UH, WEEK AND A HALF AGO AND HAD A LECTURE FROM THE, UH, ONE OF THE CHIEF SCIENTISTS FOR THE STATE, UH, FOR, UM, HE'S WORKING WITH THE US UCD SCRIPPS INSTITUTE.

AND HE WAS, UH, CHAIR, I GUESS OF THE, UH, THE NEW FIFTH EDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA CLIMATE ASSESSMENT, WHICH IS COMING AT US WELL.

SO TRYING TO TELL US WHAT'S, WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN CLIMATE AND WHAT SOME OF THE RESPONSES MIGHT NEED TO BE.

UM, AND IT TURNS OUT THAT HE'S REPORTING THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN USING AIR TEMPERATURES, BUT WATER TEMPERATURES ARE EVEN, ARE TURNING OUT TO BE EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN AIR TEMPERATURES AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE, UM, AND EVERY TIME THE MODELS GET RE-UP UPDATED, UH, EVERY YEAR THERE IS MORE VARIABILITY, MORE EXTREME EVENTS PREDICTED, HOTTER, DRIER, AND FLOODING.

UH, SO THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND, UH, SO THAT'S WHAT WE CAN EXPECT.

UH, ANOTHER MEMBER THERE REPORTED THAT THE BC DC, WHICH IS THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, IS GONNA BE REQUIRING A SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION PLAN TO BE OUT, TO BE DEVELOPED BY EVERYBODY IN THE BAY AREA BY 2030.

AND THERE'S OVER 90 LINES OF EXPECTATIONS.

SO WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON THAT.

BUT, UH, WE, WE MAY DO THAT AS A TEAM.

UH, THE NORTH BAY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION SAYS WE NEED TO, UH, GROUP TOGETHER AND, AND, UH, WORK ON THAT PLAN.

UH, BUT WE HAVE A FEW YEARS, BUT OUR JOURNAL PLAN HAS ALREADY GOT A LOT OF THAT GOING.

I ATTENDED THE NAPA WATERSHED SYMPOSIUM, UM, AND 150 PEOPLE ATTENDED THAT.

AND COMPARING THAT TO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN PETALUMA FOR OUR WATERSHED, UM, IT COMPLETELY ECLIPSES WHAT WE WE DO HERE.

SO IT'S LIKE ALMOST EMBARRASSING TO ATTEND THAT MEETING TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING OVER THERE.

BUT THERE'S SOME REASONS THE COUNTY AND THE CITY ALL ARE TOGETHER ON ONE SINGLE WATERSHED.

UM, SO THEY'RE REALLY MOVING FORWARD.

THEY'VE REC, THEY'RE, UM, THEY'VE JUST RECEIVED A $7 MILLION GRANT FROM NLAA FOR WATERSHED RESTORATION.

THE AMERICAN CANYON IS JUST COMPLETING AN $11 MILLION NAPA RIVER ECOLOGY CENTER RIGHT ON THE RIVER.

UM, AND SO THERE'S ALL SORTS OF THINGS OTHER GOING ON IN, IN NAPA.

SO THERE, THERE ARE, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO FOLLOW ALONG AND, AND PUSH HARDER, BOTH COUNTY AND, UH, BOTH MARIN COUNTY AND SONOMA COUNTY TO WORK TOWARD, UM, OUR WATERSHED HERE IN, UH, FOR PETALUMA, INCLUDING OUR MARSH.

UM, LOTS MORE GOOD INFORMATION THERE ABOUT, UH, TRASH CAPTURES.

ONE OF THE, THE KEY THINGS ABOUT MARKETING, WE NEED, UH, ONE TAM, UH, WHICH IS A GROUP OF FOLKS THAT, UH, SEVERAL NONPROFITS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOT TOGETHER ABOUT MOUNT MOUNT TAM, HOW TO MANAGE IT PROPERLY.

AND IT'S NOW CALLED ONE TAM.

AND THEY ALSO RECOMMENDED, UM, THAT WE START THINKING ABOUT USING THE TERM ONE WATER FOR THE ENTIRE BAY AREA, FOR ALL THE WATER COMING IN AND ALL THE WATER LEAVING US, AND HAVING A, A HOLISTIC PLAN FOR EVERYBODY.

THE, UM, AND, BUT THERE ARE MULTIPLE EFFORTS ALL OVER THE, UH, FOUR SEA LEVEL RISE IN CLIMATE ADAPTATION THAT'S, THAT'S OCCURRING ALL OVER THE WORLD.

UM, AND, AND HERE LOCALLY.

OKAY, THAT'S THAT ONE.

UM, AND THEN I WENT TO THE, THE TOURISM, UM, BREAKFAST THAT HAD THE SUMMARY FOR THIS LAST YEAR AND ALSO PROPOSALS FOR THIS NEXT YEAR.

AND FOUND OUT SOME GOOD INFORMATION THAT, UH, CINEMA VINTNER HAVE PROVIDED LOTS OF MONEY, UH, HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO 400 NONPROFITS OVER THE YEARS.

THIS WAS THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY.

UM, AND THERE IS A HUGE MOVEMENT MOVING.

EVERYONE'S MOVING TOWARD RESPONSIBLE TRAVELING, PARTICULARLY AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES.

THE OTHER REPORTED THAT VACATION RENTALS, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT VACATION RENTALS WITHIN THE, THE, UM, SONOMA AREA THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY PROVIDE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.

THEY ACTUALLY GAVE US A HUGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT AND MONIES TO KEEP THE WHOLE INDUSTRY AND OUR ECONOMY AFLOAT, AFLOAT.

UM, AND THERE'S A HUGE SHIFT IN, IN MARKETING NOW FROM TALKING ABOUT US BEING JUST WINE COUNTRY, BUT ACTUALLY WE NEED TO BE WORKING ON OUR LIFESTYLE, BRANDING LIFESTYLE, BEING THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING OFF.

WE HAVE NATURAL RESOURCES, WE HAVE PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO THAT'S WORKING ON.

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AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.

I'LL BE A LITTLE BIT BRIEFER.

UM, I WENT TO BY CAL CITY'S MEETING, UM, THIS PAST WEEK IN SAUSALITO, WAS JUST PLANNING FOR 2025, UM, WHAT OUR AGENDA'S GONNA BE.

AND THEN I HAD MY SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY EXECUTIVE MEETING AND THEN BOARD MEETING.

AND THERE'S NOTHING REALLY TO REPORT EXCEPT WE'RE PREPARING FOR 2025 AND BEYOND ON TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO, UM, THANK DENNIS POST POKAY COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY FOR, YOU KNOW, HIS TIME ON THE COUNCIL.

AND WHAT I REALLY, UM, ALWAYS APPRECIATE IS YOUR, UM, ATTENTION TO DETAIL.

AND SO WHENEVER I READ THINGS, I LOOK AT THINGS VERY DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE JUST THE WAY YOU'VE KIND OF EDUCATED US ON LOOKING FOR ALL THE DETAILS.

AND I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH.

AND, UM, AND MIKE, WE GO WAY BACK.

, UM, WE'VE GONE TO, YOU KNOW, CONFERENCES TOGETHER WITH, UM, CAL CITIES AND WASHINGTON DC ON, UM, THE FLOOD CONTROL AND YOU KNOW, WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON THINGS, BUT I ALWAYS REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, YOUR THOUGHTS AND HOW YOU GET TO YOUR THOUGHTS.

AND, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT YOUR WIFE, BETH, IS A WONDERFUL PERSON AND I DON'T THINK THAT YOU MENTIONED HER , SO I'M GONNA MENTION BETH.

AND, UM, SHE'S JUST GREAT AND I REALLY WISH BOTH OF YOU, UM, YOU KNOW, HAPPY RETIREMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, DO THINGS TOGETHER AND GO ON VACATIONS BECAUSE WE SPEND PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, 30 HOURS ON COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL STUFF.

THERE'S A LOT OF WORK HERE THAT WE DO AND MIKE'S BEEN DOING IT FOR 24 YEARS.

AND I WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.

AND ALSO, DENNIS, FOR ALL OF YOUR, UM, WHICH YOU DO FOR SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE LESS FORTUNATE THAN OTHERS, IT'S REALLY, UM, IMPRESSIVE.

SO I WANNA WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY AND SAFE HOLIDAY.

AND, AND AS FAR AS THE OCEAN CURRENTS, JOHN, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

THE OCEAN CURRENTS TELL US A LOT AS FAR AS CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND I'VE BEEN READING UP ON THAT AND, AND YEAH, IT'S TRUE .

SO THANK YOU.

AND THANK YOU.

AND COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.

UM, SINCE THE LAST MEETING, I'VE BEEN TO A HALF DOZEN CRAFT FAIRS, A THOUSAND BOWLS, COOL PETAL LUMA SHINDIG, UM, THE PHOENIX THEATER BIRTHDAY, DELIGHTED BOAT PARADE, THE LUMA ICE GRAND OPENING, THE FESTIVAL OF TREES, AND OTHER THINGS THAT I'M SURE I'M MISSING.

AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY WHO, UM, BRINGS THIS COMMUNITY TO LIFE DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

I SEE MARIE OUT THERE.

I SEE THE LUMA, MISS BERETTA.

UM, IT'S, IT'S REALLY AWESOME TO, TO SEE THE COMMUNITY JUST COMING TO LIFE RIGHT NOW.

UM, I HAD A SONOMA CLEAN POWER BOARD MEETING.

IT WAS UNFORTUNATELY CUT SHORT BECAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE.

UM, AND WE HAD TO EVACUATE THE MEETING AND THEN CANCEL IT.

'CAUSE WE HAD A, A REMOTE PARTICIPANT UP IN WILLITS THAT, UM, COULDN'T COME BACK ONLINE.

BUT WHAT WE DID DO IS WE, UM, APPROVED THE 2025 ELECTRICAL RATES FOR SONOMA CLEAN POWER.

USUALLY WE TRY TO KEEP OUR RATES THREE TO 5% BELOW PG E IN THIS YEAR, THANKS TO, UM, FAVORABLE MARKET CONDITIONS.

UM, SONOMA CLEAN POWER'S RATES WILL BE FIVE TO 7% BELOW PG E.

UM, AND WE'RE ABLE TO PUT MORE INTO OUR RESERVES, UM, SO THAT IN OUT YEARS WHEN THE MARKET CONDITIONS AREN'T THAT GOOD, WE CAN CONTINUE TO OFFER DISCOUNTS.

SO, UM, GOOD NEWS THERE.

UM, CONTINUING ON THE GOOD NEWS FROM SONOMA CLEAN POWER, ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO, WE HIRED A CFO FOR THE FIRST TIME, UH, WHO SPECIALIZES IN PREPAYMENT TRANSACTIONS, WHICH I MENTIONED TO THIS BOARD.

UM, BUT IN, UH, IN, IN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE A $775 MILLION PREPAYMENT TRANSACTION, UM, FOR, UH, A NUMBER OF OUR RENEWABLE ENERGY CONTRACTS THAT'S GONNA SAVE, UH, SONOMA CLEAN POWER CUSTOMERS $47 MILLION OVER A 7.5 YEAR TIMEFRAME.

AND IT REDUCES THE CASH FLOW, UH, COSTS, UH, 15.2%.

IT'S ACTUALLY THE LARGEST, UM, PERCENT SAVINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM ANY SORT OF TRANSACTION LIKE THIS.

SO, UM, A LOT OF WORK BEING DONE AT SONOMA CLEAN POWER RIGHT NOW TO HELP KEEP COSTS DOWN ON, ON ELECTRICITY PRICES, DESPITE, UM, ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON WITH PG E AND THE, AND THINGS WE CAN'T CONTROL.

UM, AND I THINK I'LL PILE ONTO THE PRAISE FOR, UM, OUR TWO OUTGOING COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER POST.

K YOU'VE JUST CARRIED AN ENORMOUS LOAD ON THE CONTINUUM OF CARE AND JUST CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

UM, WE'RE GONNA MISS YOU.

UM, I KNOW I'M GONNA MISS YOU ON THE COUNCIL.

I KNOW YOU'RE JUST A PHONE CALL AWAY THOUGH, TOO.

BUT, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

AND OF COURSE, MR. HEALY, UM, EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FROM WATER TO THE LEAGUE OF CITIES TO, UH, THEATER SQUARE, THEY'RE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE IMPACT YOU'VE MADE ON OUR COMMUNITY IS, UH, SIGNIFICANT.

IT'S GONNA BE FELT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, AND, UM, WE'RE A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF YOU.

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FOR FLOOD CONTROL ACTIVITIES IN THE PETALUMA RIVER BASIN.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.

YEAH, I HAVE A, A COUPLE OF LIAISON MATTERS TO REPORT ON, BUT I'M GONNA START WITH, UM, AND IT'S NOT A COMPLAINT, BUT YOU ACTUALLY FORGOT ONE OF MY LIAISON APPOINTMENTS OVER THE YEARS.

I WAS, UH, THREE YEARS ON THE SMART BOARD.

AND THE ONLY REASON I MENTIONED THAT IS BECAUSE THIS YEAR THERE'S A REALLY RARE OPPORTUNITY.

THERE ARE THREE SEATS ON THE SMART BOARD RESERVED FOR CITY OFFICIALS FROM SONOMA COUNTY, AND ALL THREE OF THOSE SEATS ARE GONNA BE VACANT IN JANUARY.

UM, UH, CHRIS ROGERS GOT PROMOTED TO THE STATE ASSEMBLY, AND MELANIE BAGBY FROM CLOVERDALE AND DEB FUDGE FROM WINDSOR CHOSE NOT TO SEEK REELECTION.

SO, YOU KNOW, I ROTATED OFF THE SMART BOARD IN 2006.

PETALUMA HAS NOT HAD A SMART BOARD MEMBER SINCE THEN.

AND I REALLY THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT SOMEONE FROM HERE APPLY.

THERE'S TWO CATEGORIES OF SEATS.

THE TWO OF THE THREE SEATS ARE RESERVED FOR SCTA MEMBERS.

UM, BUT THE THIRD ONE DOESN'T NEED TO BE AN SCTA MEMBER.

SO FIGURE IT OUT AND PLEASE APPLY AND GET ON THAT BOARD.

'CAUSE WE, WE DO NEED THAT.

AND THEN THE OTHER, UH, UH, ONE OTHER THING, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NO REPORTABLE ACTION OUT OF, OF THE CLOSED SESSION TONIGHT ON, ON THE MOBILE HOME PARK LITIGATION.

BUT I WANNA ASSURE YOU FOLKS THAT YOU HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL'S FULL ATTENTION, YOU HAVE STAFF'S FULL ATTENTION AND STAY TUNED.

AND THEN I, I'M HOPING THE STAFF CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE MARIJUANA SELECTION PROCESS WHEN WE GET DONE HERE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THE MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY IS THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A POLICY AND DELEGATED THE SELECTION PROCESS TO STAFF.

AND, UH, I, I HAVE A, A HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THAT STAFF IS ACTING IN GOOD FAITH ON THAT.

UM, MY TWO, UH, LIAISON REPORTS, ONE IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED A WEEK AGO.

THE OTHER WAS IS, IS, IS FORTHCOMING.

UM, I DID ATTEND THE, UH, LEAGUE OF CITIES, UM, LEAGUE LEADERS CONFERENCE AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS, UM, IN NAPA A WEEK AGO, WEEK AND A HALF AGO.

AND WHAT WE CAME UP WITH WERE THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITY'S, UM, ADVOCACY PRIORITIES FOR THE COMING, UH, CALENDAR YEAR.

THEY LOOK A LOT LIKE THE ONES FROM LAST YEAR, BUT THERE ARE SOME CHANGES.

UH, I'LL JUST READ THE TITLES ON THEM.

ONE IS PROTECT LOCAL REVENUES AND EXPAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS.

TWO IS STRENGTHEN CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.

THREE IS STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND FOUR IS SECURE INVESTMENTS TO PREVENT AND REDUCE HOMELESSNESS AND INCREASE THE SUPPLY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

UM, I THINK ONE OF THOSE PRIORITIES CAN BE CHARACTERIZED AS, DON'T TAKE AWAY THE CITY'S ANY CITY MONEY, AND THREE OF THEM CAN BE CHARACTERIZED AS GIVE THE CITIES MORE MONEY .

UM, BUT, UM, THE STATE, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF REALLY EXCELLENT PRESENTATIONS, UH, AS WELL.

UM, ON, ON THE, UH, THE STATE BUDGET FRONT FOR FISCAL YEAR 25, 26, THE STATE IS CURRENTLY LOOKING AT ABOUT A $2 BILLION DEFICIT, WHICH IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS IS ALMOST A ROUNDING ERROR.

BUT THE REASON NEXT YEAR'S GONNA BE SO GOOD IS BECAUSE THE STOCK MARKET'S DOING WELL.

AND FOR YEARS AFTER THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR'S, NEXT FISCAL YEAR, STARTING IN FISCAL 26, 27, UM, THERE'S EXPECTED TO BE A 20 TO $30 BILLION ONGOING ANNUAL STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.

SO THAT'S GONNA BE A REAL CHALLENGE FOR THE STATE, AND WE'LL SEE HOW, HOW THAT TRICKLES DOWN TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

THE BIGGEST, UH, WE WERE ALSO TOLD THAT, UM, 2025 WAS SETTING UP TO BE A, A RATHER BORING YEAR IN, IN SACRAMENTO UNTIL PRESIDENT TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP GOT ELECTED.

AND NOW IT'S ANYTHING BUT BORING.

UM, BUT THE BIGGEST POTENTIAL FEDERAL THREAT TO THE CALIFORNIA BUDGET IS IN THE MEDICAID CATEGORY BECAUSE CALIFORNIA RECEIVES A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, WHICH THEN GOES INTO THE MEDI-CAL PROGRAM.

AND IF THAT STARTS GETTING SQUEEZED, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE A REAL CHALLENGE FOR, UM, STATE GOVERNMENT IN ALL OF THIS.

AND THEN THE OTHER INTERESTING THING THAT I'LL SHARE, THE ONE OTHER INTERESTING THING I'LL THING I'LL SHARE IS THAT IF THE, UH, CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE MEASURE COMES BACK IN SOME FORM, AND THEY'RE PROMISING TO DO THAT, UM, IT'S LIKELY TO BE MORE FOCUSED ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCES, BECAUSE WHAT GOT THEM IN THE MOST TROUBLE OF THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT IS WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL PROCESS.

SO THAT'S NOT GOOD NEWS, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING YET.

THAT'S JUST A, A GUESS BY SOMEONE WHO FOLLOWS THESE THINGS PRETTY CLOSELY.

AND THEN MY OTHER LIAISON REPORT, THE ZONE TWO, A, UM, ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILL BE MEETING THIS THURSDAY.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL BE, BE THE FOCUS OF THE MEETING IS LOOKING AT, UM, THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

AND I, I THINK I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, BUT I, I'M GONNA MENTION IT AGAIN BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.

THE ACTUAL FISCAL YEAR BUDGET FOR 20 23 24 WAS $9.6 MILLION

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AND THAT'S GENTLY RAMPING DOWN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS TO, BY FY 29 30, IT'LL BE ABOUT $5 MILLION EVEN.

UM, AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD PLACE TO BE, UM, WITH WHERE WE ARE WITH, WITH FLOOD ISSUES.

UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, ATMOSPHERIC RIVER STORMS ARE GONNA BECOME LONGER IN DURATION AND MORE SEVERE.

AND WE JUST GOT A LITTLE TASTE OF THAT.

UM, BUT THAT'S GONNA BE THE SAME GOING FORWARD, AND WE REALLY NEED TO BE INVESTING MORE IN FLOOD CONTROL, UM, GOING FORWARD.

SO, I'LL, ANYWAY, I'LL LET STAFF REPORT BACK AFTER THURSDAY'S MEETING, BUT I JUST WANTED FOLKS TO BE AWARE OF THAT.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAD.

AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW.

UM, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

UM, WELL, MY AIRPORT COMMITTEE LIAISON REPORT IS WE HEARD A PRESENTATION BY A JUMP ARROW, WHICH WOULD LIKE TO LOCATE THEIR BUSINESS AT OUR AIRPORT.

NO ACTION WAS TAKEN.

THIS WILL CONTINUE TO 2025, AS WELL AS THE AD HOC COMMITTEE'S, UM, UH, LANGUAGE AND MODERN IMPROVEMENTS TO TITLE 16.

AND THEN IT'LL BE REVIEWED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND THEN IT'LL COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL.

UM, NEXT YEAR, UM, A SECOND TO A LAST PAYMENT ON OUR NEW HANGERS WILL BE MADE THIS MONTH, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS.

THESE HANGERS WERE BUILT IN 2004, THE LAST TIME I WAS ON THE CITY COUNCIL.

IN THE FUTURE, THE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED WITH A POSSIBLE POSSIBILITY OF SOME NEW BUSINESS DENTURES ADDED FOR A REVENUE STREAM AT THE AIRPORT.

THE RECREATION MUSIC AND PARKS COMMITTEE DID A SPECIAL JOINT MEETING WITH THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE.

IT BEGAN PAYING RESPECTS TO OUR NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE PUBLIC HEARING IN MATTER OF CONSIDERATION BY ARTISTS RE ROUGH EDGE COLLECTION ON PUBLIC ART MURAL THAT'S PROPOSED FOR THE KENWORTH PARK BUILDING.

WE ALSO HEARD A PUBLIC ART MURAL PROPOSAL BY THE ARTIST JOHNNY H FOR THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.

A QUESTION REGARDING MAGNOLIA TREE'S HISTORY AND THEIR PLACEMENT ON D STREET CAME UP, AND I ONLY KNOW THAT THE SYCAMORE TREES WERE PLANTED BY MAYOR GEORGE P MCNAIR'S WIFE, UM, WHATEVER YEAR HE SERVED AS MAYOR.

BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE MAGNOLIA TREES.

SO THAT CAME TO ME AS THE LIAISON TO THE CITY COUNCIL.

SO I'M BRINGING IT TO YOU GUYS.

UM, THE ARTISTS WOULD LIKE TO USE IN THE MURAL MAGNOLIAS TO BRIGHTEN UP THE TRAILS ALONG THE WALLS, AND IT ELIMINATES GRAFFITI 'CAUSE WHEN THERE'S BEAUTIFUL ART, UM, THERE'S THE GRAFFITI ARTISTS.

DON'T USE THEM AS A PALETTE, THE LADY, BUT PARADE WAS A HUGE FOR SUCCESS.

AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED WITH THAT.

I ALSO ATTENDED THE SWEARING IN OF THE NEW PENAL POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND SAFETY PERSONNEL ON DECEMBER 9TH, ALONG WITH COUNCIL MEMBER POST.

INTO THIS, UM, WEATHER SEASON THAT WE HAVE.

AND I ATTENDED A RIBBON CUTTING OF THE LUMA ICE LAST FRIDAY WITH A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR.

UM, IT WAS WONDERFUL, AND IT'S SO GREAT TO HAVE THEM IN THE COMMUNITY.

THE HUGE SHOUT OUT AND THANK YOU TO THE PETALUMA FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE PETALUMA POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE SANTA SAFETY PARADE IN MY DISTRICT THREE ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH.

IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO STAND ON THE SIDEWALK WITH FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS AND SEE THIS WONDERFUL HOLIDAY TRADITION AND REMIND US WHO'S TAKING CARE OF US, UH, SAFETY WISE AND HOW WONDERFUL THEY ARE GIVING TO OUR COMMUNITY.

ANOTHER SHOUT OUT AND THANK YOU TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS, PETALUMA POLICE DEPARTMENT, PETALUMA FIRE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY SERVICE PERSONNEL, PG E WORKERS WHO WORKED SO HARD IN THE PAST WEEKEND STORM TO DIRECT TRAFFIC, REMOVE TREE DEBRIS, RESTORE POWER MONITOR FLOODING, ET CETERA.

UM, I HAD TWO EVENTS, ONE AT 11 O'CLOCK AND ONE AT FIVE O'CLOCK AT THE VET MEMORIAL BUILDING COMING FROM THE EAST SIDE.

PETALUMA WAS QUITE A MANEUVER, UH, WITH GRANDCHILDREN, UM, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY ROAD CLOSURES AND POWER OUTAGES.

AND I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY WHO WAS WORKING OUT THERE IN THAT STORM.

UM, WE HAVE LOTS OF NEWS IN OUR WATER BILL.

YOU GUYS, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A WATER BILL.

IT HAS INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN HELP WITH FLOODING AND HOW TO PREVENT FLOODING.

AND ONE ITEM, WHICH REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, WHICH OTHER COMMUNITIES EVEN HAVE SIGNS ABOUT, IS MOVING YOUR CARS, THE STREET CLEANING DAY, SO THAT YOU CAN GET ALL THAT DEBRIS, THE LEAVES AND WHATEVER PICKED UP BEFORE THE RAINSTORMS. THIS ONE HAD IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH, THE QR CODES FOR FEMA, FLOOD INSURANCE, FLOOD ZONE FLOOD ALERTS, NATURAL FLOODPLAIN FUNCTIONS, BECAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, UM, GOING FORWARD

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UM, ALSO THERE, OUR RE OUR PERSONAL RESIDENTS WATER, NOT, EXCUSE ME, RECOLOGY BILL, WHICH IS COMES VIA EMAIL, HAD LOTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE, UM, CHRISTMAS TREES, STREET CLEANING, WHAT HOLIDAY INTERRUPTIONS, WHAT HAVE YOU.

SO CHECK THOSE.

SOMETIMES WE JUST LOOK AT OUR BILLS THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AND PUT 'EM ASIDE TO JANUARY.

BUT THERE'S IMPORTANT INFORMATION, UM, RIGHT NOW THAT WE NEED, UM, TO GET THROUGH THE MONTH OF DECEMBER AND PART OF JANUARY, UM, FOR THE LITTLE WOODS RESIDENTS IN MY DISTRICT.

I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT, UM, OH, I THINK WE CAN LOOK AT THE STREET LIGHTING AND WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND MAYBE COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS.

WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE PARKING LOTS IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUR SAFETY.

AND, UM, I AM TURNING EVERYTHING I GET OVER TO THE CITY ATTORNEY.

UM, I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER MIKE KEELEY.

UM, I FIRST MET MIKE AND HIS WIFE BETH AT A HERITAGE HOMES AWARDS BANQUET.

THEY SPONSORED A TABLE, WHICH MEANT THEY HAD TO STEP THE TABLE FOR TEA.

AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER.

HE JUST JUMPED RIGHT IN AND VOLUNTEERED TO SPONSOR THIS TABLE AND PROVIDE THE TEA SERVICE FOR THE PEOPLE SITTING AT THAT TABLE.

UM, AND THEN HIS CHILDREN, TOM AND MEGAN WERE IN MY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS, AND SOMEONE MENTIONED HE WAS ON THE CITY COUNCIL, SO I GOT TO KNOW WHO HE WAS ON SUNDAYS AT CHURCH.

AND, UM, FATHER MICHAEL ALWAYS SAID, UM, HE LOVED HIS PROCLAMATION THAT MIKE DID, UM, FOR ONE OF HIS ANNIVERSARIES OR BIRTHDAYS OR WHATEVER, UM, AT OUR PARISH.

ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MIKE, UH, FOR MENTORING ME.

I WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM TO TWIST MY ARM TO COME OUTTA RETIREMENT, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE.

BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER POST.

FOR THIS CITY AND, AND, UH, DESERVE, UM, PUBLIC RECOGNITION, UH, EQUALLY NEEDING PUBLIC RECOGNITION.

YOU WERE ELECTED DURING A PANDEMIC.

I I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE OR TALK TO YOU UNTIL I GOT SWORN INTO MY ROLE AS CITY COUNCIL IN 2023.

SO, UM, I'VE NEVER MET A KINDER PERSON OR ANYBODY MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE UNHOUSED AND WORLD PEACE AND CEASEFIRES, AND I REALLY THANK YOU FOR, UM, UM, BEING A, A LEADER IN THAT AREA.

AND I'LL MISS YOU BOTH SO MUCH.

AND, UM, THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

I HAD, UM, NO, UH, MAJOR, UH, INFORMATION TO DELIVER FROM, UH, MY, UH, COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS.

UH, A COUPLE OF THEM WERE CANCELED FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

UM, I WOULD, UH, SAY THAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD, HOWEVER, THIS, TO THIS FRIDAY'S HOLIDAY LIGHTED BIKE RIDE.

UM, AND, UH, AND I'VE HAD, UH, PLENTY OF FUN THE LAST TWO WEEKS IN SOME OF THE DIFFERENT CITY, UH, UH, RIBBON CUTTINGS AND, AND, UH, UM, FESTS.

AND, AND THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF GOOD AND FUN THINGS GOING ON IN THIS CITY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

UM, BUT I, I DID WANT TO, UH, REFLECT THAT.

UH, I, I THANK STAFF FOR STEPPING UP FOR ALL THE STORMS, UH, ISSUES THAT CAME UP.

IT WAS REALLY, REALLY HAMMERED US, AND PERHAPS AS THE CITY MANAGER WILL HAVE MORE COMMENT ABOUT STAFF'S EFFORTS, BUT, UH, A GREAT THANKS TO THEM.

UH, AND, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF ANYBODY MENTIONED THE OPENING OF THE NEW DOCKS THERE IN THE TURNING BASIN.

THAT'S BEEN A PROJECT LONG COMING AND, UH, WILL HELP US HAVE MORE AND MORE, UH, DOWNTOWN ACTIVITY AND RIVER ACTIVITY.

SO A GREAT PROJECT FROM STAFF ALSO HAPPEN TO HAVE A CHANCE TO DRIVE THE, UM, UM, FIFTH STREET GREENWAY.

AND, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S GOTTEN, UH, DONE UP NICE NOW.

AND SO I THINK THAT'LL BE A BIG STEP FORWARD IN OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLANS.

AND, UM, AGAIN, I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS, UH, WERE OVER AT LUMA ICE FOR THEIR CUTTING, AND YOU JUST COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY SMILES FROM HOW MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

UH, IT JUST A, A GREAT STAFF EFFORT AND, AND A GREAT, UH, NEW ADDITION TO THE FAIRGROUNDS AND WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING AT THE FAIRGROUNDS OVER THE NEXT LITTLE PERIOD.

UM, I DO NOTE THAT, UH, SMART HAS ANNOUNCED THAT, UH, THE CORONA ROAD STATION WILL OPEN UP AND THAT IN, IN, UH, JANUARY WILL BE A BIG RIBBON CUTTING FOR THAT.

THAT'S A BIG DAY.

I KIND OF ONLY WANNA WRAP THAT INTO THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE, UH, SAME TIME THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT RIGHT THERE, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THAT'S RIGHT THERE ACROSS ONE OF ITS LAST FUNDING HURDLES TO GET GOING.

AND SO THOSE, THOSE ARE TWO BIG MILESTONES

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UM, THE COUNTYWIDE KEEPING PEOPLE HOUSED PROGRAM GOES LIVE TODAY.

UH, YOU PROBABLY READ ABOUT IT IN THE PAPER, BUT, UH, IT'S A BIG SHOUT OUT TO COTS, OUR LOCAL COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTER LIST FOR RUNNING THE COUNTYWIDE PROGRAM.

UM, AND ALSO SHOUT TO THE CITY FOR FUNDING OUR SHARE OF, UH, OF IT.

NOT EVERY CITY IS, UH, FUNDING AND PETALUMA IS REALLY STEPPING FORWARD FOR SOLVING HOMELESSNESS.

UM, AND IT COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY BECAUSE WE'RE REACHING THE END OF ANOTHER PROGRAM WE HAVE WITH A GUARANTEED BASIC INCOME PROGRAM THAT, UM, WE HAD ONE TIME FUNDING FOR.

AND THAT'S COMING TO A CLOSE.

SO THAT IS A VERY CONCERN CONCERNING END OF YEAR THOUGHT.

UM, LASTLY, NO ONE HAS MENTIONED CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ST.

VINCENT'S FOOTBALL TEAM FOR WINNING THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.

I'M SURE WE'LL BE HEARING MORE FROM, UH, THEM IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, BUT THAT'S A BIG, BIG DEAL.

UM, AND, AND I WOULD LIKE JUST TO THANK OUR TWO, UM, UH, RETIRING, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, A A LITTLE STORY.

UM, WE ASSIGN COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS.

YOU'VE HEARD ALL ABOUT EVERYBODY'S COMMITTEE WORK AND THERE'S 30 SOME ODD, AND EACH COUNCIL PERSON HAS A HALF A DOZEN APPOINTMENTS.

AND WHEN, AND COUNCIL MEMBER POSEY CAME TO ME A YEAR AGO AND SAID, IF YOU GIVE ME THE, THE COMMITTEE ON THE HOMELESSNESS, HE SAID, I'LL TAKE ANY OTHER NASTY, UH, DIFFICULT KIND OF ASSIGNMENT YOU NEED, BUT I, I REALLY WANT THIS ONE COMMITTEE FOR ONE MORE YEAR.

AND I SAID, DENNIS, I WOULDN'T DARE GIVE IT TO ANYONE ELSE.

YOU WERE THE PERFECT, UH, COUNCIL PERSON FOR THAT, AND YOU'LL BE MISSED, AND SOMEONE IS GONNA HAVE TO STEP UP AND TAKE ON ON THAT BIG CHALLENGE.

UM, AND, UM, ALSO WITH MIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE LEFT A TRUE PHYSICAL LEGACY AROUND TOWN, UH, YOUR FINGERPRINTS ON SO MANY PROJECTS AND SO MANY GOOD THINGS IN TOWN, AND I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'VE BEEN ON MY SHOULDER HERE FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.

AND EVERY TIME I STUMBLE, I CAN COUNT ON MIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE LOOK, CLICK AND GO.

I THINK KEVIN, UH, THAT WORD YOU CAN'T PRONOUNCE IS THIS .

SO, OR THAT MOTION THAT WE NEED IS THIS.

AND SO IT'S REALLY NICE TO HAVE SORT OF AN ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER IN, IN THESE MEETINGS.

AND SO I WISH YOU BOTH WELL IN THE, IN, UH, YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS.

AND, UH,

[CITY MANAGER COMMENT]

NOW WE MOVE TO CITY MANAGER'S REPORT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY.

UM, I TOO, JUST WANT TO THANK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, UM, FOR HIRING ME.

HE WAS ON THE COUNCIL THAT HIRED ME, AND I JUST, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU AND I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH.

AND, UH, I KNOW THAT I'LL BE PINGING YOU OFTEN, UM, TO REMIND ME ABOUT WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED OR GET SOME HISTORY, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN OUR RESIDENT HISTORIAN AND, AND IT'S BEEN INVALUABLE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND, UM, DR.

POKAY, UM, HAVE JUST SO ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU AND LEARNING SO MUCH AND CHALLENGING SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE HISTORICALLY, AND LOOK AT THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND BE CHALLENGED AS A BUREAUCRAT, UM, TO BE ABLE TO GREASE THE WHEELS, UM, A LITTLE QUICKER.

AND WE, WE SURELY DO THAT AS A STAFF.

SO, I, I JUST REALLY WANNA THANK YOU FOR TAKING A CHANCE ON US AND DOING SUCH A STELLAR JOB OF SERVING US.

SO, THANK YOU.

UM, TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL OR, UH, MAYOR, UM, MCDONALD, UH, WE DID LEARN LAST WEEK THAT THE MERIDIAN AT CORONA STATION HOUSING PROJECT WAS AWARDED $48 MILLION IN TAX CREDIT FINANCING, WHICH COMPLETES THE FINANCING NECESSARY TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION ON OUR, ON THE HOUSING PROJECT, UM, AT THE CORONA STATION, UM, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED EAST SIDE SMART STATION THAT WILL BE OPENING, UH, WE'LL BE DOING A RIBBON CUTTING IN JANUARY, SO, YAY, LONG TIME IN COMING.

UH, THAT PROJECT WILL OFFER 131 AFFORDABLE RESIDENTS, UM, RESIDENCES, INCLUDING 33 PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, UM, WITH ROBUST ONSITE, UH, SUPPORT SERVICES.

AND IN ADDITION, THE CITY SMART AND DANKO HAVE ALSO PARTNERED TO RECEIVE A $30 MILLION AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES GRANT TO SUPPORT CONSTRUCTION, THE HOUSING PROJECT, AND WITH THAT SMART STATION AND TRANSIT BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS AROUND THE STATION, WE'RE JUST SO EXCITED FOR THE OPENING.

AND, UH, THANKS TO THE COUNCIL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THAT.

UM, DO WANNA GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT.

I SEE SOME OF OUR ELLIS CREEK TEAM, BUT, UH, TO, TO, UM, OUR STREET OPS, UTILITY OPS AND ELLIS CREEK OPERATIONS, THEY WERE, UM, HANDS ON FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TO HELP WITH STORM RESPONSE.

UM, THIS TEAM IS SO AMAZING.

EVEN AT LUMA ICE, WHEN WE WERE DEALING WITH THE HIGH WIND EVENT, UM, YOU KNOW, PFD WAS OUT THERE.

WE HAD, UM, OUR, OUR, OUR WATER TEAM, OUR ELLIS CREEK TEAM,

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EVERYBODY WAS HANDS ON.

I JUST, I JUST WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR TEAM FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DID FOR BEING RIGHT THERE, RESPONSIVE, RESPONSIVE TO THE, THE DOWNED, UM, TREES, TO THE FLOODING, TO THE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

UM, I'M JUST, I'M INCREDIBLY PROUD OF OUR TEAM, SO THANK YOU VERY, VERY, VERY MUCH.

AND I'VE GOT TWO FOLKS I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE COME UP.

WE HAVE, UM, FOR OVER THE LAST 14 YEARS, OUR PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES DEPARTMENT HAS SERVED AS ONE DEPARTMENT, AND IT'S VAST, AND IT'S BEEN LED, UM, OVER THE LAST NINE MONTHS BY, UH, GINA, UM, BENEDETTI NIK, AND AS OUR INTERIM PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES DIRECTOR.

AND SHE HELPED US WORK THROUGH THE SEPARATION OF THAT DEPARTMENT BACK INTO PUBLIC WORKS AND WATER RESOURCES AND UTILITIES.

AND I'M SO PROUD TO WELCOME AND CONGRATULATE PAUL ELL, WHO IS OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF OUR BRAND NEW WATER RESOURCES AND UTILITIES DEPARTMENT, CHELSEA THOMPSON, WHO HAS SERVED AS OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OUR ELLIS CREEK, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR ELLIS CREEK, A WATER TREATMENT FACILITY.

SO, I JUST WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU BOTH COME UP AND SAY A FEW WORDS, BUT CONGRATULATIONS.

WELL, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

IT'S AN HONOR TO SERVE AS THE DE DIRECTOR OF WATER RESOURCES AND UTILITIES, AND TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH OUR DEDICATED CITY TEAM.

THE CREATION OF THIS NEW DEPARTMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MANAGING WATER, WASTEWATER, AND STORM WATER RESOURCES FOR ENSURING A RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR PETALUMA.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUST AND PARTNERSHIP.

I'M EXCITED FOR OUR CONTINUED WORK TOGETHER, UH, TO SERVE OUR COM COMMUNITY.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

UH, AND COUNCIL.

UM, HONORED TO BE HERE TONIGHT, UM, AND HONORED TO JOIN, UH, THE CITY STAFF.

TODAY WAS MY FIRST DAY ON THE JOB, UM, SO I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE AND HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU THIS EVENING.

ALSO, WANT TO THANK, UM, OF COURSE, UH, CITY MANAGER FLYNN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HIRING ME, UM, AND TRUSTING ME WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO, TO LEAD THE, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, UM, EXCITED.

UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL, WITH THE COMMUNITY, UM, ALONGSIDE CITY STAFF, UM, TO HELP CONTINUE AND BUILD ON DELIVERING, UH, PROJECTS AND SERVICES TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.

SO, THANK YOU.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

AND THEN I WOULD ASK THE CITY ATTORNEY AND OUR DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, TO, UH, SPEAK, UH, BRIEFLY, UH, REGARDING OUR PROCESS FOR SELECTING, UH, CANVAS, UH, PROVIDERS AND DURING THIS PILOT PROGRAM.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'LL JUMP IN AND THEN YOU WANNA FOLLOW? YEP.

TH THANK YOU VERY MUCH, INGRID.

I JUST, UM, I WANTED TO CLARIFY A FEW THINGS THERE.

THERE WERE SOME FOLKS HERE TONIGHT SPEAKING TO OUR PROCESS ON SELECTING CANNABIS RETAILERS, UM, UNDER THE PROCESS THAT YOU APPROVED IN JUNE.

UM, A COUPLE OF, UH, CLARIFICATIONS.

ONE IS WE DID NOT DENY, WE RECEIVED NINE, UM, STRONG APPLICATIONS.

WE FELT, UM, EXCITED AND HONORED TO HAVE SO MUCH INTEREST.

UM, WE DID HAVE TO PRIORITIZE AND EVALUATE TO SELECT WHO WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROGRAM, WHICH IS STARTING NOW.

UM, AND, UM, THAT WAS, UM, THE THREE GROUPS THAT WERE SELECTED WERE, UM, FARMHOUSE, ARTISAN MARKET, DOWN UNDER INDUSTRIES, AND SOULFUL.

UM, THOSE ARE THE GROUPS THAT WE FELT, UM, REALLY REFLECTED THE SELECTION CRITERIA THAT THE BEST.

UM, AND ALSO JUST TO PROVIDE A LITTLE CLARITY.

UM, AND JUST A REMINDER THAT IN OUR PROCESS, UM, WE DID PROMISE EACH OF THE APPLICANTS THAT WE'D, WE, WE WOULD NOT BE SHARING THESE APPLICATIONS PUBLICLY, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE WAY OUR BACKGROUND WAS DONE.

WE ASKED THE APPLICANTS TO SHARE A LOT OF PROPRIETARY BUSINESS INFORMATION THAT NONE OF THEM WOULD WANT US TO SHARE PUBLICLY.

SO IT'S AN UNUSUAL PROCESS.

UM, WE TOOK IT VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.

UM, WE HAD A VERY STRONG TEAM OF REVIEWERS, UM, AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE NOT, UM, SHARED APPLICATIONS PUBLICLY LIKE YOU MIGHT NORMALLY SEE THROUGH A BID PROCESS.

UM, AND FINALLY, I JUST WANTED TO REMIND US ALL THAT THIS IS REALLY THE, THE BEGINNING OF A LONG-TERM PROGRAM THAT YOU STARTED US DOWN THE PATH ON, THAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO AMENDING OUR ZONING CODE NEXT YEAR WITH OUR GENERAL PLAN, AND THAT WE HOPE TO HAVE A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD SORT OF LAND USE REAL ESTATE PROCESS THAT OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR BUSINESSES CAN PARTICIPATE IN IN THE NEXT YEAR ONCE WE GET THAT COMPLETED WITH OUR GENERAL PLAN.

I THINK 2026 WAS THE TIME BRIAN.

OH, LET ME KNOW.

SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE.

AND ERIC, YOU MIGHT WANNA ADD A FEW POINTS.

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I THINK THAT COVERS MOST OF IT.

I'LL JUST BRIEFLY ADD, UM, STAFF HAVE SCRUPULOUSLY FOLLOWED THE PROCESS THAT AS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, UM, CORRECTLY MENTIONED, WE WERE DIRECTED TO FOLLOW IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COUNCIL'S APPROVAL OF THAT VERY PROCESS.

AND AS INGRID INDICATED, UM, WE COMMITTED IN THOSE, UM, MATERIALS THAT WE PROVIDED TO POTENTIAL APPLICANTS THAT WE WOULD BE PROTECTING THE PROPRIETARY AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL INFORMATION THAT WE ASKED THEM TO PROVIDE, TO HELP STAFF CANDIDLY ASSESS, UM, AND CAREFULLY ASSESS THE, THEIR, UM, THEIR, UM, THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY MATCHED THE SELECTION AND SCORING CRITERIA, WHICH WERE IN THE APPLICATION PACKAGE AS ATTACHMENT THREE.

AND I'LL JUST NOTE THOSE WERE, UM, FOCUSED ON, UM, OPERATOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION THAT WERE PASS FAIL CATEGORIES, UM, UM, THAT WERE SORT OF, UM, BASIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

AND THE OTHER CATEGORIES WERE PROPOSED BUSINESS MODEL AND PLAN, FINANCIAL STRENGTH, SECURITY PLAN AND REFERENCES.

UM, AND SO STAFF HAVE FOLLOWED THAT PROCESS, UM, CONSISTENT WITH THE PACKAGE, WHICH WE'RE OBLIGATED TO DO, UM, IN ACCORD WITH THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION.

WE WILL BE, UM, SAFEGUARDING THAT INFORMATION, AND THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE LAW IT PROVIDES FOR EXEMPTIONS FROM DISCLOSURE, FROM THAT KIND OF INFORMATION WHEN IT'S PROVIDED BY LICENSEES TO PUBLIC AGENCIES IN A, IN A PROCESS SUCH AS THIS.

I'LL ALSO NOTE THAT THE, UM, PROCESS THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING AND THE COUNCIL APPROVED, UM, IS ALSO VERY CONSISTENT WITH, UM, SIMILAR, UM, PROCESSES, UM, LIKE THIS THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO COMPETITIVE BIDDING IN THE STRICT SENSE, LIKE BUILDING PROJECTS ARE, BUT RATHER IN INVOLVE SORT OF COMPLEX, UM, VETTING OF APPLICANTS, UM, FOR, FOR PERMITS SUCH AS THESE.

SO IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, WE, THE INFORMATION'S ON OUR WEBSITE AND WE CAN ADDRESS THEM.

BUT I THINK THAT COVERS IT FOR TONIGHT.

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, MAYOR.

TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR THE EVENING.

AND WITH THAT, THAT TAKES US

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

UM, DOES ANYONE ON, UH, COUNCIL HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ANY OF THE ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR? UM, AND CITY ATTORNEY? I JUST WANTED TO NOTE ONE ITEM.

UM, AND THAT INVOLVES THE, LET'S SEE, THAT'S THE, UM, BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ITEM, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.

AND, UM, ALSO WHEN HE WAS ON THE COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER, KING OF TRADITIONALLY RECUSED FROM THAT IN A VERY, VERY CAUTIOUS APPROACH BECAUSE, UM, THIS, THE CHARGE THAT, UM, THAT, THAT THEIR BUSINESSES WOULD PAY UNDER THE PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY INTO THE, THE, UM, BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT DOESN'T MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR TRIGGERING A CONFLICT FOR PERSONAL FINANCES.

IT DOESN'T TRIGGER IT, UM, FOR LEASEHOLD INTERESTS.

IT DOESN'T TRIGGER IT FOR A BUSINESS INTEREST.

UM, BUT NONETHELESS, I'M JUST MENTIONING THAT THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN THE PRACTICE IN THE PAST, UM, TO, TO PREVENT ANY, ANY POSSIBLE APPEARANCE OF A CONFLICT.

SO IT'S UP TO YOU, OF COURSE, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, AS IT ALWAYS IS, SINCE THAT'S ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, IF COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, HEALY CHOOSES TO RECUSE, HE CAN STAY IN THE DESK AND WE JUST, HE JUST WOULDN'T PARTICIPATE IN THAT VOTE ON THAT ITEM.

AND, AND LET ME JUST ASK FOR CLARIFICATION.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEALER, YOU INTENDING TO RECUSE FROM THAT ITEM? IS THAT YEAH.

OKAY, GOOD.

UM, SO, UM, WE WILL BREAK THAT OUT AS A SEPARATE VOTE AT THE, AT THE PROPER TIME.

AND SO THEN IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS ON THE ITEMS, I'D LIKE TO GO TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR CONSENT CALENDAR.

DO WE HAVE ANY CARDS OR LETTERS FROM THE, UH, AHEAD OF TIME ON ANY OF THE ITEMS ONE THROUGH EIGHT? NO, WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, BUT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.

ARE, WE HAVE NONE CLOSED ON THE, YOU HAVE NO CARDS.

THOSE ARE ACTUALLY FOR ITEM NUMBER 10.

UM, AND SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED.

PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION CONSENT CALENDAR.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

YOU WANT ME OH, THANK YOU.

I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T THINK SO.

YEAH, I DON'T KNOW.

NEXT TIME FOR GENERAL, NEXT TIME FOR GENERAL.

THAT WAS NOT A CONSENT CALENDAR, UH, COMMENT.

SO THEN WE

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AND SO WE ARE CLOSING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR CONSENT CALENDAR, BRINGING IT BACK TO COUNCIL, AND FROM THE COUNCIL FOR BARNACLE.

I'LL MOVE ITEM ONE THROUGH FOUR AND SIX THROUGH EIGHT.

I'LL SECOND THAT.

NO, IT'S FOR, NO, IT'S GOT, IT'S, YEAH.

MOTION BY BARNACLE.

SECOND BY CATER THOMPSON.

AND MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE BARNACLE.

[5. Resolution to Approve the 2025 Downtown Petaluma Business Improvement District Annual Report and Related Budget; Declaring the Intention to Levy the 2025 Annual Assessment; and Setting a Public Hearing on the Proposed 2025 Annual Assessment]

FOR A MOTION FOR ITEM FIVE.

I'LL MOVE ITEM FIVE.

AND WE HAVE A SECOND FROM, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY, GETTING ONE LAST MOTION IN RUN TO THE WIRE.

AND A ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.

BARNACLE.

AYE.

CATER THOMPSON? YES.

HEALY ABSTAIN NOW? YES.

POST A K? YES.

AND THAT MOVES US OVER

[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]

TO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE EVENING.

AND, UM, WE HAVE, UM, THE ITEM OF PUBLIC HEARING AND CHANGE AND UPDATE RELATED TO MASTER FEE SCHEDULE AND RESOLUTION, ESTABLISHING AN ADVANCE METERING INFRASTRUCTURE OPT OPTOUT FEE.

AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE, UH, JESSE G***H, OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, UH, CARRY THE CONVERSATION HERE.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THE, UM, JESSE IS, OR OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR IS ON, UM, IS REMOTE, SO SHE'S GONNA BE JOINING US REMOTELY.

GREAT.

UM, I HOPE YOU CAN ALL SEE AND HEAR ME.

UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.

ON APRIL 8TH OF THIS YEAR, COUNCIL HELD A WORKSHOP FOR THE CITY'S FEE SCHEDULE UPDATE.

AND SO AT THAT MEETING WE DISCUSSED ADDING THE A MI OPT-OUT FEE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE ADDITIONAL COSTS TO MONITOR WATER METERS FOR CUSTOMERS THAT OPT OUT OF CONVERTING TO THE CITY'S NEW A MI METERS.

HOWEVER, WE RECENTLY REALIZED THAT THE MASTER FEE SCHEDULE THAT WE BROUGHT TO COUNCIL TO BE ADOPTED ON MAY 6TH MISTAKENLY DID NOT INCLUDE THAT FEE.

SO WE'RE BRINGING THE FEE BACK TO BEFORE YOU TONIGHT AND ORDER TO PROPERLY CHARGE THE FEE WHEN NEEDED.

THIS $20 MONTHLY FEE WOULD RECAPTURE THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH MANUAL METER CHECKING AND WAS CALCULATED USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY AS THE REST OF OUR UPDATED FEES THIS PAST SPRING.

SO TONIGHT WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT YOU ADOPT THE RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH THE ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE OPTOUT FEE, AND TO ADD IT TO THE CITY'S MASTER FEE SCHEDULE.

FABULOUS REPORT.

I'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL FOR QUESTIONS.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.

DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY CUSTOMERS ARE GONNA OPT OUT? YES.

SO AT THIS POINT, WE'RE NEARLY HALFWAY DONE WITH THE A MI INSTALLATIONS.

WE'VE, THE, OUR, OUR WATER FOLKS HAVE PUT IN 8,600 UPGRADED METERS OUT OF A TOTAL OF 18,400.

AND OUT OF ALL OF THOSE SO FAR, WE'VE ONLY HAD 18 RESIDENTS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN OPTING OUT.

SO WE'RE NOT EXPECTING IT TO BE, UM, VERY WIDESPREAD.

AND ALSO, ANOTHER QUESTION, UM, HAVE, UH, HAS THE PROGRAM GONE ACTIVE WHERE PEOPLE CAN SIGN IN TO THEIR WATER METER ONLINE? UM, I WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK WITH OUR REVENUE FOLKS ON THAT.

I BELIEVE THAT ONCE YOU HAVE THE METER, YOU ARE ABLE TO SIGN IN.

WOW.

THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT, UM, STEP FORWARD IN, IN ALL THE CONSERVATION EFFORTS WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE.

AND WITH NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, I'D LIKE TO OPEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.

DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS? DO YOU WANNA SUBMIT A CARD AND YOU CAN SUBMIT IT AFTERWARDS IF YOU'D LIKE? SO I THINK WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THAT'S OUR, UH, FOLKS FOR ON THIS.

AND I HAPPEN TO BE AN OPT OUT PERSON.

I WOULD LOVE TO READ THE METER FOR YOU, .

I'LL TAKE A PICTURE OF IT, SEND IT TO YOU.

I DON'T SEE WHY I WOULD HAVE TO PAY ANYBODY TO COME OUT AND READ MY METER.

THAT'S MY, UM, SUGGESTION FOR THOSE OF US WHO OPT OUT.

WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION TONIGHT? WELL, I'LL MAKE A MOTION, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING WHEN I WAS GONNA GET MY NEW MEETING.

AND THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS.

AND, UM, I NOTICED, UM, MANY, MANY AGENCIES HAVE ALREADY, UM, GONE FULLY A MI FOR, UM, THEIR METER READING SYSTEMS. AND THE OPTOUT COUNT IS ALWAYS A VERY, VERY LOW POPULATION.

AND, UM, SO I'LL BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT OUR NUMBER TURNS OUT TO BE.

UM, BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL.

ANY OTHER COMMENT OR MOTION

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WELL, THAT'S A QUESTION AND THEN I'LL, AND THEN I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO, UM, APPROVE, UM, THIS MASTER FEE SCHEDULE AND RESOLUTION.

VERY ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND I'LL SECOND THAT AND WE HAVE A SECOND FROM CATER THOMPSON.

AND, UM, CAN, CAN STAFF GET BACK TO YOU ON THE ACTUAL DATE? YEAH.

THAT'S FINE.

IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION.

AND, UM, SO MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? VOTE BARNACLE.

AND, UM, NOW WE ARE ONTO ITEM 10, TO CERTIFY A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, ADOPT FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATION AND ADOPT A MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR THE CREEKWOOD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AT 270 AND 280 CASA GRANDE ROAD.

AND, UH, TO HELP US WITH THIS TONIGHT, UH, WE HAVE BRIAN O OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, AND OLIVIA IRVIN, OUR PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER, AND GREG POWELL, PRINCIPAL PLANNER.

SO, UH, TAKE IT AWAY TEAM.

UH, EXCELLENT, THANK YOU.

UM, BELOW MARKET RATE UNITS, UM, REQUIREMENT BEING MET IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY'S CODE.

I AM OLIVIA IRVIN.

I AM A PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER, AND I'VE BEEN OVERSEEING THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FOR THE PROJECT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY.

UH, I AM JOINED TONIGHT BY GREG POWELL, WHO IS PROCESSING THE PROJECT'S DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AS WELL AS NICK, UH, PAANI, WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF RAINY, UH, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, THE FIRM THAT THE CITY ENTERED INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT TO CONDUCT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR THE PROJECT.

AND OLIVIA, MAY I ASK TO BRING IT DOWN? JUST, UH, UH, FOR TRANSLATION PURPOSES? OH MY GOSH.

SLOW DOWN.

I HAVE THAT IN MY NOTES.

THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TO TONIGHT FOR CONSIDERATION IS THE CERTIFICATION OF THE FINAL EIR FOR THE CREEKWOOD HOUSING PROJECT.

THE CITY HAS FULLY COMPLIED WITH THE PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, AND THIS HEARING ON THE FINAL EIR IS THE CULMINATION OF THAT PROCESS.

A QUICK REMINDER AS WE GET INTO STAFF'S PRESENTATION TONIGHT.

THE PROJECT BEFORE YOU IS A FULLY CONSISTENT PROJECT WITH THE CITY'S GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING REGULATIONS AS A HOUSING PROJECT.

IT IMPLEMENTS THE HOUSING ELEMENT AND IT ADVANCES THE CITY'S PRO HOUSING DESIGNATION.

THERE ARE NO PROJECT ENTITLEMENTS THAT WILL COME BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL, AS THE DISCRETION IS LIMITED TO THE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, WHICH IS LIMITED TO, WHICH IS UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

AND THEY WOULD CONSIDER THAT AT A FUTURE DATE ONCE THE EIR IS CERTIFIED.

UH, ONLY IF THERE IS AN APPEAL ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION SPAR FINDING WOULD THAT THEN COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION.

SO TONIGHT, SO THAT'S ALL FUTURE.

UH, NEXT STEPS JUST TO GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT, BUT TONIGHT THE COUNCIL IS TAKING THE FINAL STEP IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS AND CONSIDERING CERTIFICATION OF THE EIR.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO NICK TO TALK THROUGH THE FINAL EIR.

THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING.

UH, AGAIN, NICK PAPAI, VICE PRESIDENT WITH RANDY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, PRIVILEGED TO BE HERE.

UH, WE ARE HIRED BY THE CITY TO PREPARE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT.

SO I'LL BE COVERING SOME SLIDES HERE FOR YOU.

AND, UH, I'LL START WITH JUST A PRESENTATION OVERVIEW.

UH, WE'RE GONNA GIVE A QUICK RECAP ON THE PROPOSED PROJECT, UH, AN OVERVIEW OF THE CQA PURPOSE CQL CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, AND THE SQL PROCESS.

THE, UH, FEIR OR FINAL EIR, UH, CONTENTS, UH, COVER A BIT ON THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND RESPONSES RECEIVED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.

AND THEN, UH, WE WILL TOUCH ON THE FINDINGS AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

SO JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW HERE.

YOU SEE THE PROJECT SITE IN RED.

UM, THE, IT'S APPROXIMATELY 5.2 ACRES CONSISTING OF TWO PARCELS.

AND THEN THE PURPLE AREA IS SHOWING THE OFFSITE COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT, WHICH IS THE, UH, PROPOSED NORTH SOUTH TRAIL, UM, ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF ADOBE CREEK, AS WELL AS THE PROPOSED, UH, MULTI-USE BRIDGE THAT EIR COVERS BOTH COMPONENTS, UH, WHICH CONSIST OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE PROJECT.

UH, THIS HERE IS JUST THE EXHIBIT OF THE TENTATIVE MAP.

UH, THERE'S HIGH LEVEL DETAIL HERE.

AGAIN, 59, UM, UNITS PROPOSED, UM, WITH, UH, 15%,

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AND, UM, THEY SEE, OF COURSE, THE, THE CREEK TO THE EAST AND, UH, CASA GRANDE ROAD TO THE WEST.

AND ACROSS FROM THERE, OF COURSE, IS THE HIGH SCHOOL.

AND SOUTH OF THE SITE IS THE MCKENNA SUBDIVISION, AND NORTH IS THE CASA GRANDE APARTMENTS.

UH, THIS CIRCULATION PLAN HERE, JUST AGAIN TO SHOW AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL, UM, THE PROJECT WOULD INCLUDE PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES TO CONNECT CASA GRANDE ROAD TO, UH, THE EAST SIDE OF THE SITE SO THAT THERE WOULD BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE PROPOSED, UM, PEDESTRIAN TRAIL SHOWN IN, UH, PURPLE ON THE EXHIBIT.

AND THEN THAT PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN TRAIL ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF THE CREEK WOULD CONNECT, UH, TO THE PROPOSED BRIDGE ACROSS ADOBE CREEK AND ALSO TO THE MCKENNA SUBDIVISION, UH, TRAIL, UH, TO THE SOUTH.

HERE'S JUST A, UH, ZOOM IN ON THE PROPOSED MULTI-USE BRIDGE, UM, OVER THE CREEK.

UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT SHOWN THERE, AND WE WILL BE COVERING THAT IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL AS WE GO THROUGH OUR, OUR SLIDES.

BUT YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE GENERAL CONNECTION, UM, OVER THE CREEK, UM, TO THE PY GLASS ROAD AREA TO THE EXISTING PATH.

SO A LITTLE BIT ON THE PURPOSE OF CEQA.

UH, THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT IS INTENDED TO INFORM PUBLIC AND DECISION MAKERS SUCH AS YOURSELF OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF A PROPOSED PROJECT, UM, IDENTIFY IMPACTS THAT IS PHYSICAL IMPACTS, UH, TO THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, UM, IDENTIFY MITIGATION MEASURES TO REDUCE IMPACTS WHERE FEASIBLE, AND THEN, UH, EVALUATE PROJECT ALTERNATIVES, UM, TO THE, UH, PROPOSED PROJECT.

UM, IT DOES NOT, UH, SE A DOES NOT EVALUATE PROJECT MERITS.

THAT'S A CONSIDERATION.

UM, DOES NOT GRANT PROJECT APPROVALS OR ENTITLEMENTS.

THE ROLE OF THE CITY COUNCIL HERE IS TO CONSIDER THE ADEQUACY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, WHICH IS INCLUSIVE OF THE DRAFT EIR AND THE FINAL EIR, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT, WHAT THAT CONSISTS OF AND TO CONSIDER TAKING ACTION TO CERTIFY THE EIR, UH, DETERMINING THAT IT'S ADEQUATE WITH RESPECT TO ITS ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT'S, IMPACTS AND ADOPT FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS, UH, WHICH WE'LL DISCUSS A LITTLE FURTHER AS WELL.

SO, HERE'RE JUST HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE SQL PROCESS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH TO DATE ON THIS PROJECT.

UM, WE ARE HERE IN BOLD , WHICH IS CONSIDERING OF COURSE, THE FINAL EIR, UM, SUBSEQUENT TO, TO THIS, UM, UH, IF THE, UH, EIR SHOULD BE CERTIFIED, UM, THAT THERE WILL BE A PLANNING COMMISSION SPAR, UH, MEETING IN, UH, FIRST QUARTER OF 2025.

SO THE, UM, THE DRAFT EIR, UH, THAT EVALUATES THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE PROJECT, AS YOU KNOW, WAS RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT FOR 45, UH, DAYS FROM JULY 26TH TO SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2024.

UH, DURING THAT TIMEFRAME, WE RECEIVED 33 COMMENT LETTERS, AND WE HELD TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS TO ACCEPT VERBAL COMMENTS.

UM, ONE BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, AND THEN ONE BEFORE YOU ALL ON SEPTEMBER 16TH.

THE FINAL EIR ITSELF CONSISTS OF, UM, AN INTRODUCTION CHAPTER, WHICH CONCLUDES A LIST OF ALL THE COMMENT LETTERS THAT WE RECEIVED AND AUTHORS OF THOSE COMMENT LETTERS.

UM, IT INCLUDES THE LETTERS THEMSELVES, AND THEN THE MAJORITY OF THE DOCUMENT IS, UH, WRITTEN RESPONSES TO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.

UM, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES WHAT WE CALL THE MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM, WHICH IS, UH, A, A TABLE THAT INCLUDES ALL THE MITIGATIONS, THE PARTIES RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING THOSE, UM, SO THAT THE CITY CAN, UM, CHECK OFF COMPLIANCE AS A PROJECT SHOULD BUILD OUT.

AND THE FINAL HOUR WAS PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 6TH, 2024, AND MADE AVAILABLE FOR, UH, FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.

ONE THING THAT WE LOOK AT WHEN WE, UH, RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND RE REVIEW ALL THEM IS ARE THERE THEMATIC COMMENTS, COMMENTS THAT ARE OFF REPEATED, UH, SUCH THAT WE CAN PREPARE A MASTER RESPONSE, UH, TO TRY AND DEAL WITH THOSE, UH, COMMENTS AND PROVIDE, UM, INFORMATION.

UM, SO WE DID IDENTIFY A NUMBER OF THEMATIC COMMENTS AND, UH, DECIDED TO PREPARE, UH, UH, FIVE MASTER RESPONSES THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE, UM, ON THE SLIDE.

THE FIRST BEING, UH, NON SEQ A GENERAL COMMENTS, AND THIS IS JUST TO CLARIFY THAT, UM, AS PART OF RESPONDING TO COMMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW, UM, WE ARE ARE ALLOWED TO FOCUS ON COMMENTS RELATED TO

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THE ADEQUACY OF THE EIR, UH, ANY COMMENTS RELATED TO THE MERITS OF THE PROJECT, WHETHER THE PRO THEY, LIKE SOMEBODY LIKES THE PROJECT OR NOT.

THAT'S, UM, THAT'S NOT A SEQUENCE SPECIFIC COMMENT, AND THAT'S FOR THE DECISION MAKERS TO WEIGH.

SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF COVERS SOME OF THOSE GENERAL CONTENTS.

UM, MASTER RESPONSE TWO IS FOCUSED ON THE MULTI-USE BRIDGE, UH, AND, UM, THAT'LL BE TALKED ABOUT FURTHER IN THE PRESENTATION IN TERMS OF THE MULTI-USE BRIDGE AND HOW THAT WAS EVALUATED.

MASTER RESPONSE THREE IS FOCUSED ON CASA GRANDE ROAD COMMENTS AND CONCERNS.

AND, UM, SOME INFORMATION WAS PROVIDED THERE WITH RESPECT TO FUTURE POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF THE CITY'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

MASS RESPONSE FOUR IS, UH, ADOBE CREEK RIPARIAN CORRIDOR RELATED COMMENTS.

AND THEN FIVE, UH, RELATED TO PARKING.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT BACK TO OLIVIA TO COVER SOME OF THOSE COMPONENTS, UH, IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.

FOR BOTH OF THOSE IS, UH, IS TO ACCOMMODATE THE MULTI-USE INTENT.

THANK YOU, NICK.

OKAY, SO, UH, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE OTHER, UH, MASTER RESPONSES, BUT I DID WANT TO DURING THE PRESENTATION, BUT OF COURSE THAT IS COVERED IN DETAIL, UH, IN THE FINALLY IR ITSELF AND OUTLINED IN THE STAFF REPORT.

AND AS, UH, COUNCIL HAS QUESTIONS, WE'RE HAPPY TO, UH, ADDRESS THOSE.

BUT, UH, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THE BRIDGE, AND SO I WANTED TO FOCUS A BIT ON, UH, THAT COMPONENT.

SO THE, UM, THE COUNCIL, UH, ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE BRIDGE AT THE, UH, DRAFT DIR, UH, HEARINGS.

AND SO WE, UH, TOOK THAT TO HEART AND, UM, AND DID A, A BIT OF A ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS.

UM, AND JUST AS A, TO SET THE STAGE, A REMINDER, THE BRIDGE IS INCLUDED, UH, AS PART OF THE PROJECT, UH, BECAUSE THE COUNCIL, UH, HAD PREVIOUSLY ASKED FOR ITS INCLUSION DURING, UH, HEARINGS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO ON THE CASA GRANDE SUBDIVISION, WHICH IS NOW BUILT OUT AND KNOWN AS THE MCKENNA SUBDIVISION.

UH, SO THAT IS WHY AND HOW THE BRIDGE GOT INTO, UH, THIS, THIS PROJECT.

UH, SO I WILL, UH, MAKE NOTE THAT THE, UH, MULTI-USE BRIDGE OVER ADOBE CREEK IS NOT SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIED IN THE CITY'S BIKE AND PED PLAN, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL POLICIES AND CITYWIDE GOALS THAT SPEAK DIRECTLY TO ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY, WALKABILITY, AND INCREASING, UH, FOOTBRIDGES.

AND THOSE ARE NOTED, UH, HERE FOR COUNCIL'S, UH, CONSIDERATION AS, UH, YOU DELIBERATE THIS EVENING.

UM, ONE OF THE ASKS WAS FOR, UH, A LOOK AT A NORTHERLY ALIGNMENT.

AND SO THIS EXHIBIT HERE SHOWS WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.

UM, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE TOP OF THAT GRAPHIC A PLAN VIEW THAT SITES, UH, SUCH A BRIDGE IN THAT LOCATION.

UM, WHAT YOU DON'T SEE FROM THE PLAN VIEW IS THE, UM, THE CONSTRAINTS THAT ARISE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CROSS SECTION, WHICH IS THE IMAGE BELOW.

AND WHAT THAT SHOWS IS A VERY SUBSTANTIAL GRADE DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN WHERE THE BRIDGE DECK MUST BE AND WHERE THE PATH IS.

UH, AND SO THERE ARE OF COURSE, ALWAYS ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO GET THERE.

AND SO WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IS INTRODUCING A SUBSTANTIAL VOLUME OF FILL INTO THE FLOODPLAIN AND FLOODWAY AND THE RIPARIAN CORRIDOR.

AND THOSE WOULD BE MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL THAN, UM, THE BRIDGE IN THE SOUTHER LO SOUTHERLY LOCATION.

AND SO, UM, STAFF DOES NOT RECOMMEND THIS AS A ALTERNATIVE.

WE, IT'S, UH, IT WOULD BE, HAVE MUCH GREATER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.

UH, SO WHAT ARE SOME OTHER SOLUTIONS FOR THE NORTHERLY TO AVOID THAT SUBSTANTIAL FILL? WELL, WE COULD SHORTEN THE BRIDGE LENGTH AND HAVE A SERIES OF, UM, OF RAMPS THAT WOULD STEP DOWN FROM, TO ACCOMMO ACCOMMODATE THAT DIFFERENTIAL.

AND SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS THAT, UH, ALIGNMENT WITH THE RAMP CONFIGURATION, AND THAT IS, UH, ALSO A VERY, UM, UH, WOULD INTRODUCE A LOT OF, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE INTO THE RIPARIAN AND THE FLOOD PLANE, UH, ADJACENT TO ADOBE CREEK.

AND THAT, UH, ALSO IS NOT, UH, WOULD HAVE A GREATER IMPACT THAN WHAT WAS ANALYZED UNDER THE SOUTHERLY.

AND SO THIS NORTHERLY ALIGNMENT ALTERNATIVE IS ALSO, UM, NOT PREFERRED AND WOULD NOT REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.

AND SO THAT IS ALSO NOT, UM, RECOMMENDED BY STAFF.

UM, SO THEN WE DID, UH, LOOK AT ANOTHER, UH, OPTION FOR BRIDGE LANDING ON THE SOUTHERLY ALIGNMENT.

SO, UM, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS THAT, UH, SORT OF EXPANDED APRON THAT WOULD TIE INTO THE SIDEWALK ON SPY GLASS AND AS WELL AS THE, UH, MULTI-USE PATH ON ADOBE CREEK.

UH, AND THE REASON THAT YOU'RE SEEING THAT

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SO, UM, SO THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE BRIDGE ALTERNATIVES AND ALIGNMENTS, UH, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, AND AS WE STATED IN THE STAFF REPORT, AS YOU MOVE NORTH, THE GRADE DIFFERENTIAL, UH, MAKES IT VERY CHALLENGING TO AVOID IMPACTS TO THE FLOODPLAIN AND FLOODWAY WITHOUT INTRODUCING SUBSTANTIAL FILL.

UH, AND THIS SOUTHERLY ALIGNMENT, UH, IS AT GRADE AND AVOIDS FILL.

AND SO THAT IS IDENTIFIED AS, UM, ENVIRONMENTALLY, UH, PREFERRED.

UH, AND SO I'LL JUST, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THAT THERE IS OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, SOME FLEXIBILITY IN DESIGN AND THE PRECISE DESIGN CAN CERTAINLY BE, UM, FURTHER, UH, DIRECTED AND SORTED OUT THROUGH THE SPAR PROCESS.

BUT WE ARE, UH, LOOKING TO COUNCIL TONIGHT FOR THAT, UH, VERY CLEAR DIRECTION ON THE BRIDGE, UM, BRIDGE NO BRIDGE CONSIDERATION AND THE DESIGN, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS SO THAT PLANNING COMMISSION CAN, UH, CAN TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN THEY'RE DOING THE, UH, APPROVALS ON THE PROJECT ENTITLEMENTS.

UM, THIS IS THE BRIDGE AS AS PROPOSED, AND WE CAN PULL THIS UP LATER IF WE NEED TO.

SO, UH, AGAIN, THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IS INCLUDED IN THE EIR.

THAT IS AN OPTION.

UM, IF COUNSEL, UH, SHOULD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THAT IS PREFERRED, UH, THAT IS, HAS BEEN CAPTURED IN THE EIR, AND WE WOULD LOOK TO COUNSEL TO, UM, HELP MAKE SOME OF THE FINDINGS ABOUT WHY THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IS, IS SUPERIOR, AND WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT AS WE NEED, NEED BE.

UH, AND I MENTIONED THESE OTHER ITEMS, THE OTHER BRIDGE ALIGNMENT.

THE NORTHERLY HAS VERY SUBSTANTIAL GRADE DIFFERENTIAL THAT MAKES IT, UM, NOT A DESIRABLE FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT.

AND, UM, THE SOUTHERLY ALIGNMENT, UH, DOES HAVE SOME OPTIONS FOR VARIATION, SHOULD THAT BE DESIRED.

WE LOOK, UH, FORWARD TO HEARING COUNCIL'S DIRECTION THERE.

AND THEN JUST KEEPING IN MIND, UM, SOME OF THE PLANNING AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE BRIDGE.

AS I MENTIONED, UH, BRIDGES PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY.

THEY PROMOTE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, WALKABILITY, UH, AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT, UM, UH, STAFF HAS BEEN DIRECTED TO PURSUE.

AND SO WE ARE, UM, RECOMMENDING, UH, INCLUSION OF THE BRIDGE AND, UM, THE PROJECT AS PROPOSED.

UH, SO SHIFTING TO THE OVERALL FINDINGS OF THE EIR, UH, WE DO HAVE SIGNIFICANT AND MITIGATABLE IMPACTS TO THESE, UH, THREE ITEMS, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY, AS WELL AS TRANSPORTATION RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION.

AND THEN WE DO HAVE SIGNIFICANT AND UNAVOIDABLE IMPACTS DUE TO, UH, TRANSPORTATION FROM VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED AND GGHG EMISSIONS.

UH, THIS SLIDE HERE SHOWS THE FINDINGS OF FACT THAT ARE REQUIRED, UH, THROUGH THE EIR CER CERTIFICATION.

THESE WILL SHOW UP IN, UH, EXHIBIT A TO ATTACHMENT ONE, WHICH IS YOUR RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.

EACH OF THE IMPACTS, UH, EACH OF THE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS HAVE ONE OF THESE FINDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

AND THAT IS, UM, THE RECORD OF, OF FINDINGS, UH, FOLLOWED BY A, UM, A STATEMENT IN THE RECORD ABOUT, UH, WHY IT, WHY IT MEETS, UM, THAT OR HOW IT, HOW IT, UH, ACCOMPLISHES THE, THE FINDING.

UH, AND THEN, AS I MENTIONED, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THOSE TWO ITEMS THAT REQUIRE THAT ARE, UM, UNTRANSMITTABLE AND THEY ARE SIGNIFICANT AND UNAVOIDABLE, MEANING THAT THERE ARE NO FEASIBLE MITIGATIONS TO REDUCE THOSE TO LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT, UH, THE COUNCIL, UH, ALSO ALONG WITH THE, UM, THE CERTIFICATION MUST ADOPT WHAT'S CALLED A STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS.

AND THAT, UH, ESSENTIALLY SAYS THAT ON THE WHOLE, GIVEN THE WHOLE AND BALANCING, UM, ALL THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS ON THE WHOLE, THE BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT OUTWEIGH THE ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.

AND THE REASONS FOR THAT ARE, UH, LISTED HERE.

IT'S, UM, CONSISTENT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING.

IT ACHIEVES LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.

UH, AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING.

UH, THE SITE IS, UM, IMPLEMENTS AND, UH, ACHIEVES THE CITY'S HOUSING ELEMENT AND ADVANCING THE HOPE, THE PRO HOUSING DESIGNATION, UH, IT PROMOTES AND REALIZES NEW HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE UGB, UM, THEREBY DISCOURAGING URBAN SPRAWL, AND IT ENHANCES NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIVITY WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MULTI-USE PATH AND BRIDGE.

UM, THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE PROJECT COMMITMENTS THAT ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY.

UM, I WON'T READ THROUGH THOSE, BUT THEY'RE LISTED HERE JUST AS A REMINDER.

UH, AND THEN JUST REALLY QUICKLY, THE, AGAIN, TONIGHT THE CITY COUNCIL'S ROLE IS IN, IS TO CERTIFY, CONSIDER CERTIFICATION OF THE EIR AND ADOPT FINDINGS.

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THAT IS, UH, THAT WOULD BE, UH, PROVING, UH, RESOLUTION, UH, ATTACHMENT ONE, THE RESOLUTION THERE.

UM, AND THEN THE PLANNING COMMISSION AT A FUTURE HEARING WOULD THEN BE CONSIDERING REVIEW, UM, AND ACTING ON THE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW.

UH, AND THEN I'LL JUST MAKE NOTE THAT THERE ARE OUTSIDE AGENCY APPROVALS, AND THAT IS A, A PROCESS THAT HAPPENS, UM, LATER.

THOSE ARE PERMITS AND COMPLIANCE WITH, UH, REGULATION TO ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF, UM, OF RESOURCES INCLUDING THE CLEAN WATER ACT WITH ADOBE CREEK AND, UM, RIPARIAN, UM, AND THAT THOSE, UH, THOSE AGENCIES WOULD RELY ON THE CITY'S EIR AND THEN ISSUE THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION UNDER THEIR OWN, THEIR REGULATIONS FOR THEIR PROTECTIONS OF, UM, NATURAL RESOURCES.

SO, UH, WITH THAT, THE RECOMMENDATION, UH, BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FINAL EIR TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION CERTIFYING THE EIR AND ADOPTING THE FINDINGS OF FACT STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATION AND THE MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM, AS I MENTIONED, THAT IS INCLUDED IN ATTACHMENT ONE TO YOUR STAFF REPORT AS EXHIBITS A AND B, AND THEN, UM, LOOKING FOR YOU TO PROVIDE ANY POLICY DIRECTION FOR PLANNING COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATION REGARDING THE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, AND SPECIFICALLY THE PROPOSED BRIDGE AND MULTI-USE PATHWAY.

AND THAT COMPLETES STAFF'S PRESENTATION, AND WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR, FOR QUESTIONS.

COMPLIES WITH THE PARKING, SO THERE'S NO REDUCED PARKING HERE.

THAT'S A GREAT AND SUCCINCT REPORT AND, AND NICE TO HAVE IT BACK HERE AGAIN FOR FINAL.

UM, I DO HAVE A QUESTION.

THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, BRIDGE IS A BIG CONCERN AND A BIG ISSUE HERE, BUT THE EIR IS WRITTEN SUCH THAT THE OPTION IS IN IT.

AND, UM, WHEN COUNCIL WEIGHS IN ON PREFERENCE OF A BRIDGE, NO BRIDGE, ET CETERA, IT WON'T REALLY REQUIRES TO MODIFY THE RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE EIR WILLING.

SO, UM, THE EIR DOES INCLUDE THE NO BRIDGE.

UM, AS AN ALTERNATIVE, WHAT'S BEFORE YOU IN THE FINDINGS IS, UH, AS IT'S TEED UP CURRENTLY IS FOR CERTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT WITH THE BRIDGE.

SO IF THE CONSENSUS TONIGHT IS NO BRIDGE, UM, WE CAN DO A COUPLE OF THINGS.

ONE, WE CAN, UM, RECESS AND SEE IF WE CAN, UH, COME UP WITH SOME, UM, UH, LANGUAGE TO RE, WHAT WE WOULD DO IS REJECT THE PROPOSED PROJECT AND ACCEPT THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE.

UH, AND WE WOULD WANT COUNSEL TO TELL US WHY WE'RE REJECTING THE, THE PROPOSED PROJECT AND, AND ACCEPTING THE THE NO BRIDGE.

UM, AND WE CAN PULL THAT UP IF, AND IF, AND WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, UM, WE COULD ALSO, UH, CONSIDER CONTINUING THE ITEM AND COMING BACK WITH THE, UH, FINDINGS TEED UP FOR A NO BRIDGE.

UM, I DO WANNA BE MINDFUL OF THE SB UH, THREE 30 CONSTRAINT HERE AND WHAT THAT WOULD, UH, IMPLY IN TERMS OF THE MEETING COUNTS.

UM, UH, BUT I THINK THAT WE COULD, UH, WORK WITHIN THE, HOW IT'S TEED UP TO DO SOME LANGUAGE MODIFICATION.

UM, IF THE CONSENSUS IS TO GO IN THE NO BRIDGE DIRECTION, BUT THE FINDINGS DO RIGHT NOW REJECT THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT BECAUSE IT MEETS THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES, IT, UM, ADVANCES, UH, CONNECTIVITY, IT, UH, PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO GET OUT OF THEIR CAR.

SO THERE'S, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WE WOULD WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE, UM, ACCEPT, UH, REJECTING THAT INSTEAD OF ACCEPTING IT, RIGHT? AND SO IT, WE WOULD NEED A FINDING, OR I'M THINKING ABOUT ALL OUR DIFFERENT GOALS THAT MAYBE AREN'T HIGHLIGHTED HERE.

UM, WHEN WE REDUCE PARKING IN DEVELOPMENT AND WE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WE'RE SUPPRESSING PARKING COMPARED TO, UM, PEOPLE'S PAST EXPERIENCES WITH, UH, PARKING QUANTITIES, IF WE ENABLE HIGH PARKING BY ACCESSING OTHER CURB SPACES ACROSS THE CREEK WE'RE DEFEATING A GOAL THAT WE HAVE OF TRYING TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS BY NOT HAVING THEM.

UM, YOU KNOW, BY REDUCING PARKING IS, IS A MEANS TO TRY AND, UH, DRIVE DOWN THE DRIVING, SAVE THAT FOR A DIFFERENT MOMENT.

BUT, UM, SO THAT WOULD BE BUILT INTO A FINDING THAT WE COULD CREATE.

SO, UM, UH, THE, THE PARKING IS, UH, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS A INTERESTING TOPIC.

UM, THE, THE PROJECT HERE MEETS THE PARKING STANDARDS AND IT

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UM, BUT OUR PARKING STANDARDS ARE AGGRESSIVELY LOW.

WELL, I MEAN, I SUPPOSE THAT'S A, YEAH, AND LET ME PUT THIS A DIFFERENT WAY.

WE HAVE, UH, WE ARE NOT MEETING VMT AND BY ACCESSING ADDITIONAL PARKING, WE'RE FURTHER NOT MEETING VMT BY PROMOTING MORE CARABILITY.

I'M LOOKING TO THINK OF WHAT FINDINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, TO TEE UP AS WE GET INTO DISCUSSIONS ON THAT SO WE CAN LINK IT TO VMT.

WELL, I WANNA BE CAREFUL THERE BECAUSE, UM, VMT IS REDUCED BY HAVING, UH, MORE CONNECTIONS AND BY HAVING ACCESS TO PATHWAYS AND BRIDGES AND HAVING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO, UM, GET OUT OF THEIR CARS AND WALK.

AND ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE ADJACENT HIGH SCHOOL, UM, PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, CONNECTIVITY FOR, UM, A SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION THAT, UM, WILL CON, YOU KNOW, CONTINUOUSLY WANT SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND, UM, AND WAYS TO WALK AND, AND GET THERE DIRECTLY.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE VMT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, BRIDGE CONNECTIONS AND PATHWAYS ARE A KNOWN AND MEASURABLE REDUCTION IN VMT, BUT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO QUANTIFY THAT VMT UH, BENEFIT, RIGHT? THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO MITIGATION THAT ADDRESSES THIS.

UM, SO IT IS QUANTIFIABLE AND WE DO HAVE MATH THAT SHOWS WHAT THOSE REDUCTIONS ARE.

UM, BUT IT IS NOT GO FAR ENOUGH TO MAKE UP FOR THE DIFFERENCE IN THE, UM, CITYWIDE, UH, VMT THAT IS, UM, WE, WE ARE AT, WE'RE IN, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF A MISALIGNMENT BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, VMT IS RELATIVELY NEW.

WE HAVE A, A OLDER GENERAL PLAN, AND WE DON'T HAVE A, A GENERAL PLAN LAND USE YET THAT, UM, ACCOMPLISHES THE, THE VMT, UH, OBJECTIVES.

AND SO, UM, IT IS, IT IS, YOU KNOW, NO FAULT OF THIS PROJECT THAT THEY HAVE A BMT EXCEEDANCE.

IT IS A, A CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE TIMES AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE A CAR DEPENDENT, UM, SOCIETY AND WE, WE GO ON FAR, FAR TRIPS AND WE LIVE IN A REGIONAL ECONOMY AND FOLKS WORK IN, RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

SO, MR. MAYOR, IF I COULD, UM, WHAT, WHAT, I THINK IT'S CERTAINLY NOT STAFF'S, UM, ROLE TO DEBATE THE COUNCIL'S POLICY CHOICES WITH THE COUNCIL.

IT'S OUR ROLE AND NOT THAT OLIVIE IS DOING THAT.

'CAUSE SHE'S NOT, SHE NEVER DOES.

BUT, UM, UM, BUT THE OLIVIA'S ALSO SHARING ACCURATELY WITH THE COUNSEL, THE FACT THAT, UM, WE ARE IN A TRANSITION TIME BETWEEN THE CURRENT GENERAL PLAN AND THE FUTURE ONE, THE CURRENT ONE NOT BEING BASED ON, ON VEHICLE MILES TRAVEL, THAT BEING NEW LAW, SINCE THE CURRENT GENERAL PLAN WAS ENACTED, AND US HAVING SOME OF THESE IMPACTS ON PROJECTS WE'VE SEEN SOME PREVIOUSLY, UM, WHERE AS A RESULT OF THAT, THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT AND UNAVOIDABLE IMPACTS.

UM, MY SUGGESTION IS, UH, WE MAY, I MEAN, OLIVIA HAS GIVEN US SOME OPTIONS, HOW WE CAN ADDRESS A POT POTENTIAL COUNCIL PREFERENCE FOR NOT HAVING THE BRIDGE.

IT MIGHT WELL BE NECESSARY IN SOME OF THE DISCUSSION IN VIEW OF SOME OF THE DISCUSSION THAT'S OCCURRING RIGHT NOW FOR US TO CONTINUE OR BRING THIS BACK.

WE'LL, I'LL DOUBLE CHECK.

WE'LL NEED TO DOUBLE CHECK WITH STAFF, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S NOT A PROCEDURAL PROBLEM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A FACT RECORD THAT SUPPORTS THAT, IF THAT'S THE COUNCIL'S POLICY CHOICE.

'CAUSE UM, 'CAUSE IN, IN LOOKING AT THE, UM, EXHIBIT A, THE SQL FINDINGS CONCERNING SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS AND STATEMENTS OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS, UM, THERE IS GOOD FACTUAL SUPPORT IN THE RECORD FOR THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND VIEW OF THESE CONSIDERATIONS.

AND, AND WE MIGHT HAVE TO DO, YOU KNOW, HERE, HERE WHERE THE COUNCIL'S COMING FROM AND DO SOME MORE WORK TO MAKE SURE THERE'S, THERE'S SIMILARLY ADEQUATE FACTUAL SUPPORT FOR A DIFFERENT COUNCIL PREFERENCE ON THIS.

SO, I, I DON'T WANT TO DERAIL THAT, DON'T WANNA BE ARGUMENTATIVE WITH THE COUNCIL AND TAKING NO ISSUE WITH THE STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT WE MIGHT NEED TO COME BACK ON THAT.

UH, MR. MAYOR, UM, YEAH, I GUESS THIS QUESTION FOR YOU, ERIC, IN TERMS OF THIS, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS TO ME, UH, I'M SWAYED SOME, UH, BY THE COMMENTS OF FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THERE MOSTLY ABOUT THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE BRIDGE BEING, UH, THE PEOPLE THAT WILL USE IT FROM, LET'S JUST OVERSIMPLIFY AND SAY THE GROVE APARTMENTS.

UM, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE A COUPLE TIMES, THERE IS NO CONNECTION

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RIGHT NOW.

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

I GUESS THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION IS, IS THERE A CONNECTION NOW, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL, THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE BRIDGE FROM GROVE APARTMENTS? UH, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE.

AND, UH, THE INHABITANTS THERE HAVE ALSO STATED THAT THE GROVE IS NOT INTERESTED IN HAVING A ROUTE TO THIS BRIDGE.

AND I ALSO HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS MYSELF WITH GROVE MANAGEMENT ABOUT ANOTHER ISSUE A FEW YEARS AGO WHERE, UH, THEY SEEMED PRETTY RESISTANT TO, UH, ALMOST ANYTHING WE, WE SAID OR REQUESTED.

UH, IT WAS NOT A DEVELOPMENT ISSUE, BUT, UH, IT WAS, UH, E EVICTION ISSUE.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER POKAY, I'M GOING TO SORT OF DEFER TO THE, THE STAFF PLANNING TEAM.

I DON'T, I THINK OUR CONNECTIVITY OBJECTIVES GO BEYOND THE GROVE APARTMENTS AND, AND IT'S REALLY, THESE ARE COUNCIL POLICIES, NOT, NOT, YOU KNOW, D PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT POLICIES OR PREFERENCES THAT DRIVE THE STAFF WORK IN THESE THINGS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, AND OLIVIA'S TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT ALREADY ABOUT PROVIDING FOR MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITIES AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIVITY, UM, THROUGH THE CITY, UM, VIA PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS, UM, TO PROVIDE THOSE CONNECTIONS.

'CAUSE IF WE DON'T DO IT WHEN THEY HAPPEN, THEY WILL NEVER HAPPEN, OR LIKELY WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

SO ANYWAYS.

OLIVIA, DO, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING IN TERMS OF THE, WHAT, WHAT CONNECTION IS ACHIEVED BY THAT AND KIND OF BACKGROUND? THANKS.

YEAH, NO, I THINK, UM, UH, WHAT ERIC WAS SAYING IS CORRECT, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE TODAY, DOESN'T, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY TELL THE STORY OF WHAT'S COMING FOR THE FUTURE.

UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE A WELL CONNECTED, UH, PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE NETWORK THAT IS, UH, CITYWIDE.

AND THIS IS ONE OF THE, THE FEW, UH, OPPORTUNITIES THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO REALIZE THAT SORT OF PATHWAY, UH, CONNECTION ON THE EAST SIDE, THAT AT THE, UH, EXPENSE OF THE DEVELOPER TO, TO BUILD AND CONSTRUCT THAT, UH, OTHERWISE MIGHT BE ON THE, THE CITY'S, UM, DOLLAR IF, IF THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, DELAYED OR, OR NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PROJECT.

SO THERE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A ROUTE RIGHT NOW FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET THERE IN ORDER TO CLAIM THAT VMT DE DECREASE.

I CAN ADDRESS THAT.

SO THERE IS A MEASURABLE VMT REDUCTION, BUT IT IS NEGLIGIBLE, AND WE DO STILL HAVE A, UM, AN OVERRIDE BECAUSE IT'S NOT SUBSTANTIAL ENOUGH TO REDUCE THAT FROM A, UM, YOU KNOW, QUANTIFIABLE MEANS THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, DESIRABLE TO HAVE A BRIDGE.

IT JUST MEANS IT DOESN'T GET US THE VM UH, A MEASURABLE VMT REDUCTION, WHICH IS WHY WE NEED THAT STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS.

SO, SO IF I COULD MAYBE ASK A FOLLOW UP QUESTION FOR, FOR COUNCIL MEMBER POSTGATE, UM, AND MAYBE WE HAVE IT IN A GRAPHIC, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE DID TO MAYBE AT LEAST BE ABLE TO SEE FOR THE COUNCIL'S PURPOSES, IF WE'RE ABLE TO SHOW WHAT CONNECTIVITY THE BRIDGE WOULD GET US AND SORT OF KNOCK AT US, UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHAT GETS CONNECTED NOW, BUT WHAT MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.

'CAUSE IT'S CERTAINLY TRUE THAT IF, YOU KNOW, AS OLIVIA SAID, UH, WE, THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY, IT'S LAWFUL AND APPROPRIATE ON THIS RECORD IN TERMS OF OUR POLICIES TO ACQUIRE THIS IMPROVEMENT FOR THE PROJECT.

NOW, THERE'S SOME NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERN ABOUT IT, BUT CONNECTIVITY, AND I DON'T MEAN TO DISCOUNT THAT.

THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC AND WE'RE RESPONSIBLE TO FOR, FOR BEING RESPONSIVE TO THE PUBLIC, AS WITH THE COUNCIL.

UM, BUT THE ISSUE OF PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY AND, UM, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY IS MORE THAN AN, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S AN ISSUE, A CONSIDERATION, A POLICY PRIORITY THAT EXTENDS BEYOND NE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSIDERATION.

SO THANKS FOR SHARING THE GRAPHIC AND SOMEONE SORT OF OKAY.

HELP WITH WHAT IT, WHAT IT SHOWS FOR THE COUNCIL.

UM, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? I'M FINISHED.

SO I'LL BE SPEAKING, UM, I WAS A TEACHER AT CASA GRANDE FOR 16 YEARS, SO I KIND OF KNOW THE AREA A LITTLE BIT.

I HAVE A NATIVE PLANT NURSERY, AND I COLLECTED, UH, SEEDS FROM THAT SECTION OF THE CREEK.

SO I'VE BEEN DOWN IN THERE A FEW TIMES.

UH, AND I HAVE WORKED WITH CLEANING IT UP WITH THE, THE HATCHERY FOLKS, SO, UH, SO I'M A LITTLE FAMILIAR WITH IT.

UH, BUT TODAY, AND, AND I'M A BICYCLE RIDER AND A WALKER, AND I LOVE OUR TRAILS.

AND I, I'M REALLY BIG ON, ON MAKING OUR TRAIL SYSTEM MUCH BETTER.

HAVING SAID THAT, I WENT OUT THERE TODAY A LITTLE BIT WET, UH, TO WATCH THE STREAM AND TO GET A FEEL FOR, UH, WHAT IT REALLY FELT LIKE TO ACTUALLY WALK IN THAT AREA ON THE TRAIL.

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SO HERE'S, HERE'S WHAT MY EXPERIENCE, AND I'M GONNA CHALLENGE YOU ON CONNECTIVITY AND, AND HOW IT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO HELP US.

WHO'S GONNA BE ACTUALLY USING IT, WHEN THEY'RE GONNA BE USING IT, AND HOW THEY'RE GONNA BE USING IT.

SO I'M GONNA CHALLENGE YOU TO REALLY DESCRIBE THAT BECAUSE I, UM, THEORETICALLY AND LOOKING AT IT FROM A BIG OVERVIEW AND A MAP, OH, NICE TO HAVE A BRIDGE THERE.

SO MANY FEET AND EVERYTHING, THEORETICALLY, ENGINEERING WISE, IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE.

I'M LOOKING AT NOW JUST AS JUST A PERSON, I'M A LITTLE KID.

I'M IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ONE OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND I WANNA GET TO SCHOOL.

HOW AM I GONNA GET THERE WITH THE BRIDGE OR WITHOUT THE BRIDGE? AND SO, UM, SO I WALKED DOWN THERE AND JUST KIND OF IMAGINED MYSELF EVERYTHING.

I WENT THERE AND TOOK, TOOK A LOOK AT THE GROVE.

THERE IS NO ACCESS.

I TRIED TO LOOK AT WHERE WOULD I CLIMB THE FENCE, AND THERE WAS A COUPLE PLACES I COULD CLIMB THE FENCE.

LITTLE DIFFICULTY.

IT'S OVER SIX FOOT TALL, SO I'M NOT GONNA BE CLIMBING THE FENCE FOR MYSELF.

EVERYTHING.

IT'D BE EASIER JUST TO WALK AROUND FROM THE GROVE THAN CLIMBING A FENCE.

THEN I WENT OVER, UM, IN THE SPYGLASS AREA AND LOOKED AT THAT, THE PARKING, AND IT IS A VERY LIMITED PARKING SPACE, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE HOUSES THAT ARE THERE.

SO I, I TOTALLY FEEL FOR THE NUMBER OF CARS THAT MIGHT COME INTO THEIR AREA, PARKING, WALK ACROSS THE BRIDGE TO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS TO COMPENSATE FOR, FOR THE MINIMUM PARKING THAT WE ARE ALLOWING HERE IN THIS PRO PROJECT.

SO THAT WAS ANOTHER CONCERN.

I SAYS, OKAY, HOW MANY FOLKS, WELL, HOW MANY PARKING SPACES WOULD THERE BE THERE FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE? AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE PRETTY MINIMAL, UM, THAT THE OF AVAILABILITY.

SO HUGE IMPACT I'M NOW SEEING IN THE SPYGLASS AREA.

THEN I WENT DOWN, OKAY, YOU GO DOWN, WALK DOWN, AND FROM THE SPYGLASS, UH, AREA, I START WALKING DOWN THE PATH.

AND I WOULD SAY IT IS A ILLEGAL TRIPPING PA HAZARDS ALL THE WAY DOWN BECAUSE THE BRICKS ARE ALL OUT PLACE AND IT'S COMPLETELY OVERGROWN ON THE EDGES.

I WALK DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER AND IT'S A TINY LITTLE NARROW, MUDDY, WET OF, UH, LITTLE PATH, POORLY MAINTAINED.

UM, I WALK DOWN FURTHER.

THERE'S NOT MUCH ACCESS DOWN FURTHER SOUTH FROM ANY THAN, IT'S BASICALLY FENCED.

SO THERE'S NO REAL ACCESS TO THIS TRAIL UNLESS YOU REALLY START BREAKING DOWN FENCES AND BREAKING DOWN ROADS AND CHANGING IT, AND ACTUALLY MAKING IT A CEMENTED ASPHALT EIGHT FOOT PATH THAT PEOPLE CAN USE.

SO CURRENTLY IT'S NOT REALLY USABLE AS A TRUE BICYCLE TRAIL, 'CAUSE IT'S NOT SIX FOOT WIDE, IT'S NOT PAVED, IT'S MESSY, IT'S WEY ALL THAT.

SO, UM, THIS RAISES THIS.

SO THIS RAISES CONCERN ABOUT, WHOA, THIS IS GONNA BE CREATING CONNECTIVITY.

THEN THE OTHER THING I LOOKED AT, OKAY, I LOOKED AT THE SPOTS GOING ACROSS THE, THE, THE CREEK.

AND, UH, I LOOKED AT IT AND IT SAYS, OH, WELL, IT, IT, I LOOKED AT THE ACTUAL SPOT AT THE MCKENNA AREA, SAYS, WELL, THAT'D BE A MUCH NICER, NARROWER, IT'S EASIER.

I THOUGHT, OH, IT'S NOT AS WINE, UH, FEWER TREES.

AND I SAYS, IF THAT WAS IN THAT PLAN, OH, I MIGHT THINK A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.

BUT LOOKING AT THE SPOT THAT WE'VE SELECTED, THERE ARE A LOT MORE TREES AND A LOT MORE DIFFICULTY, A LOT MORE EXPENSE IN BUILDING A BRIDGE THAT'S FURTHER APART.

IT'S NOT AS NARROW AS IT IS AT THE MCKENNA SITE.

SO I SAID, OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT, UM, AMOUNT OF MONIES JUST TO PUT THIS BRIDGE IN.

AND THEN I SAID, OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT AND WALK AROUND FROM THAT SITE.

AND THEY SAY, IF I WANTED TO USE THE PATH, IF I'M LIVING THERE IN THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT, OR IF I'M A SENIOR LIVING NEXT DOOR AND I WANNA GET ONTO THIS PATH AND GO ALL THE WAY DOWN THE SCHOENBERGER PARK, I SAYS, WELL, WHAT? IT'S A LONG WALK BICYCLE RIDE.

IN EITHER CASE, I SAYS, WELL, HOW MUCH MORE EFFORT WOULD IT TAKE FOR ME TO ACTUALLY GO AROUND A LI COME DOWN AND TAKE THE ACTUAL SIDEWALK AND THE PATH AND GO DOWN THERE AND WE'RE TALKING MAYBE 30 SECONDS ON A BIKE, OR, OR MAYBE TWO MINUTES WALKING.

SO I'M LOOKING AT, SO I'M LOOKING AT THE CONNECTIVITY ISSUE OF WHAT I, UM, AND THEN FROM A SAFETY POINT OF VIEW IS THIS, LIKE, UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IS IF CASA GRANDE WAS COMPLETELY CHANGED IN, IN, UH, THE WAY IT'S SET UP SO THERE'S MORE PARKING, ONE LANE, MORE PARKING AND E OR ACTS OF WHATEVER THE ENGINEERS NEED TO DO TO MAKE IT A SAFE, OUR, OUR NEW SAFE STREETS AND THEN CHANGE ELI BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY AS SAFE ON THERE 'CAUSE IT'S, UH, BACK GRADE OVER THERE AND IT'S NOT AS SAFE.

BUT IF WE TAKE IT DOWN TO ONE LANE WITH BIKE LANES AND MAKE THAT A SAFE STREETS CONCEPT, ALSO, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN GETTING AROUND AND GOING AROUND RATHER THAN GOING ACROSS, UM, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME.

AND I'M GOING, OKAY, SO HOW MUCH TIME FOR THE EXPENSE OF THE BRIDGE AND THE CONNECTIVITY, WHAT IS IT REALLY GONNA SAVE VERSUS WHAT IS IT GOING TO COST, UH, UPFRONT TO DO THIS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE MAINTENANCE AND THE CHANGE THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED, WHICH MAY TAKE A FEW YEARS.

SO I'M, SO I ASK AGAIN, SO I'M GONNA CHALLENGE YOU A LITTLE BIT ON THIS CONCEPT OF CONNECTIVITY, THE COST, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY GONNA BE TRANSPORTING THEMSELVES ON THAT BRIDGE FROM HERE TO THERE, UNLESS WE REALLY CHANGE SEVERAL THINGS, CHANGING THE PROPERTY, UH, RIGHT NORTH OF IT, THE SENIOR, A PATH THERE, A PATH ON THE NEXT PLOT,

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WHICH IS UNDEVELOPED AT THE MOMENT, WHICH WOULD CONNECT UP AND THEN IT GO, WHERE'S IT? IS IT GONNA GO ALL THE WAY UP TO, UH, UM, UH, ADOBE ROAD? AND I LOOKED AT THAT CREEK AND IT SAYS, NO, IT'S A GOLF COURSE RIGHT NOW.

AND IT'S PRETTY IN.

SO ANYWAY, IF I COULD, I WANT TO CHALLENGE THE QUESTION IS, IS IT THE CONNECTIVITY? CAN YOU EXPLAIN YOUR CONCEPT OF CONNECTIVITY AND IN RATIONALIZING IT IN THE NUMBERS THAT I'M SEEKING? OKAY.

SO, UM, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, BASIC PLANNING PRINCIPLES, UM, I, I DON'T THINK I NEED TO TAKE A REALLY HARD DEFENSE HERE TO EXPLAIN THAT HAVING INCREASED, UH, FOOT BRIDGES, IT'S ALREADY IN OUR GENERAL PLAN HAVING INCREASED, UH, PATHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRAILS.

THAT'S HOW YOU GET, UH, A FULL CIRCULATION PLAN.

SO, UM, THE CONCERNS THAT YOU RAISE REGARDING, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, MAINTENANCE OR THE LEVEL OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ON THOSE BRIDGE, UM, THAT ARE ON THE TRAILS THAT CONNECT TO THOSE AND WHY MIGHT BE CONSTRAINTS TO PEOPLE USING THEM.

UM, THOSE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE COUNCIL'S, UH, CONSIDERATION TO ALLOCATE, UH, PRIORITIES TO HAVE THOSE FUNDED.

SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, COME, COME TOGETHER COLLECTIVELY, UH, WHEN THE CITY, UH, TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION IT'S, ITS PRIORITIES AND, AND WHERE WE WANT TO TO BE IN THE FUTURE.

AND SO WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE A BRIDGE CONNECTION THERE TODAY.

YOU HAVE A PROJECT BEFORE YOU, UH, TONIGHT THAT IS, UH, INCLUDES PROPOSING ONE.

SO YOU, YOU, YOU GET TO CONSIDER IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT, UH, OR, OR NOT.

THAT'S, THANK YOU VERY MUCH ON THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY.

POTENTIAL VALUE OF THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THIS PROJECT CREATES FOR THE BRIDGE AT PRIVATE RATHER THAN PUBLIC EXPENSE.

UM, I CAN'T HELP BUT NOTE A, A VERY SUBSTANTIAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN, UM, THE PRESENTATION WE JUST RECEIVED AND THE ATTORNEY'S MEMOS WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING.

AND, YOU KNOW, IN THE NORMAL SITUATION, AND I THINK THE PUBLIC'S EXPECTATION IS THAT IF WE LIKE A PROJECT AND WE THINK THE EIR IS, UH, ADEQUATE, THEN WE VOTE TO APPROVE BOTH.

BUT IF WE THINK THE PROJECT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR SOME REASON, OR THE EIR FINALLY, EIR IS NOT ADEQUATE, WE CAN VOTE TO TURN THEM DOWN.

UM, AND THAT'S NOT THE CASE HERE BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT, WHICH DIDN'T GET MENTIONED ONCE IN THE PRESENTATION, WHICH I WAS SURPRISED BY IT.

I WAS HOPING THE CITY ATTORNEY COULD POSSIBLY SUMMARIZE WHAT'S IN THESE, THESE MEMOS THAT YOU'VE SHARED US WITH US ABOUT THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IN THIS PROJECT.

SO I, UM, THE, I'M, I'M NOT IN A POSITION TO, TO SHARE PUBLICLY PRIVILEGED LEGAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE COUNCIL.

IT'S THE COUNCIL'S PRIVILEGE THAT I ACTUALLY DUTY BOUND TO PROTECT WITH RESPECT TO THOSE, WHEN OLIVIA WAS REFERRING, SHE WAS ALLUDING TO THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT THE LIMITED NUMBER OF HEARINGS THAT CAN BE HAD ON THE PROJECT.

'CAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE FEATURES.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, IT IS AS, AS HAS BEEN NOTED TONIGHT, THIS IS NOT A PROJECT THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, EXCEPT FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.

THIS IS NOT A PROJECT THAT FOR WHICH THE COUNCIL WILL BE APPROVING THE APPROVING BODY ABSENT AN APPEAL.

UM, SO THERE IS, UM, IT'S, IT'S FAIR TO SAY UNDER THE ACCOUNTING, UM, I'M SORRY, UNDER THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT, UM, WHICH IS IN LAW THAT'S DESIGNED TO PROMOTE HOUSING IN CALIFORNIA, IT IS DESIGNED TO CONSTRAIN, UM, LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISCRETION TO, UM, DISAPPROVE OF HOUSING.

UM, THAT, THAT, UM, THE COUNCIL'S ABILITY TO DISAPPROVE THE PROJECT IS SEVERELY CONSTRAINED.

THAT IS, THAT IS, UM, THAT IS INTENTIONALLY THE RESULT OF THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.

UM, AND IT HAS, THAT HAS BEEN A FACTOR IN A NUMBER OF, UM, PROJECT APPROVAL DECISIONS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL RECENTLY.

AND THEY, THE, THOSE LAWS ARE STILL UNDERGOING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES AS WE ARE ANALYZING FROM THE UP FROM THE LATEST LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

SO, THOUSAND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IS A FEATURE.

UM, AND, AND IT'S NONETHELESS TRUE THAT THE COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, AND STAFF ARE SEEKING COUNCIL DIRECTION, UM, WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSUE OF THE BRIDGE AND, UM, AND HOW IT, THEIR SUPPORT IN THE RECORD FOR IT.

IN TERMS OF THE CITY'S EXISTING POLICIES, UM, I, YOU KNOW, FROM MY PART, I STILL THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE COUNCIL QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE HEARING AND SOME OF THE COMMUNITY CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED.

I THINK TO CONSIDER, UM, TO LOOK, UH, THE, THE WAY MY MIND WORKS, IT MAKES ME WANNA LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS AND SEE WHAT ARE THE LACKING, UM, PORTIONS OF CONNECTIVITY AND WHETHER THERE'S A POTENTIAL THAT THEY MIGHT BE REALIZED IN THE FUTURE OR NOT.

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT'S RELEVANT TO THE

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UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN, IN ANSWER.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY'S QUESTION, THOUGH, FOR PURPOSE OF THE PUBLIC MEETING, I, I HOPE THE, THE COMMENTS ABOUT THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT I JUST GAVE AND THE FACT THAT IT IS, YOU KNOW, THIS PRODUCT IS SUBJECT TO IT, UM, WE DO HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT, UM, IN TERMS OF PROJECT APPROVALS.

BUT, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER WE'RE HERE ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT TONIGHT, NOT THE PROJECT APPROVALS.

THOSE WILL BE BEFORE THE, UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

UM, AND WE ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, AS PART OF THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THAT CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE WE ARE, AND WE'VE SEEN THIS IN OTHER PROJECTS TOO, THERE'S STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY IN TERMS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SQA COMPLIANCE AND THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.

UM, HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT PROJECTS ARE GENERALLY SUBJECT TO SQA AND NOT EXEMPT.

UM, WHICH LEAVES SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, ABOUT WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A COUNCIL MAKING OR NOT MAKING FINDINGS OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATION, UM, WHEN, YOU KNOW, FAILURE TO CERTIFY THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT PREVENTS THE PROJECT APPROVALS FROM GOING FORWARD.

SO I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER IF WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, ABOUT, ABOUT THOSE CONSIDERATIONS.

UM, UM, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I I, I STILL, YOU KNOW, IT'S WORTH RESTATING THAT WE ARE HERE ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.

IT HAS BEEN PREPARED SO AS TO PRESERVE THE COUNCIL'S OPTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THAT.

UM, I, I SUSPECT THAT WE WOULD NEED AT LEAST A RECESS, IF NOT TO RETURN TO, TO PROVIDE SUPPORTING INFORMATION IN THE RECORD, UM, IN THE FINDINGS THAT ARE NOT THERE NOW.

UM, UN UN UNDERSTOOD.

I I THINK WE OKAY.

YEAH, SO I'M, I'M, I'M DISAPPOINTED AT THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, QUITE FRANKLY, THE PUBLIC HAS NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE BEING TOLD BY THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND WHY WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE GONNA PROBABLY END UP DOING TONIGHT.

UM, I, I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE SECRECY AND, AND, AND THE LACK OF DIRECTNESS IN THAT RESPONSE WHEN THE, OKAY, WELL, THAT'S THE RELEVANT PARTS OF THE ATTORNEY'S MEMO WAS WRITTEN IN VERY STANDARD AND EASILY UNDERSTOOD ENGLISH, AND WE JUST DIDN'T GET THAT.

WELL, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, AS YOU KNOW, WELL, YOURSELF BEING AN ATTORNEY, IT'S, IT'S, I'M NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCLOSE THOSE COMMUNICATIONS UNLESS THE COUNCIL DIRECTS ME AND A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL GIMME GIVES ME THAT DIRECTION.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL, I'M GONNA, IN THE, AS THE DISCUSSION PROCEEDS, I'M GONNA, I'LL RE-REVIEW THOSE COMMUNICATIONS AND SEE, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT I, I, I GUESS I NEED TO HEAR FROM, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE PERFECT.

WHAT IF WE PUT A GATE THERE? IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? AND THEN THE A HOA PRESIDENTS COULD HAVE THE KEY OR THE ACCESS CODE, AND IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? LET ME PARA, LET ME PARAPHRASE IF I COULD FOR THE SAME QUESTION.

UM, SO THANK YOU.

LET'S MOVE TO A NEXT QUESTION.

YEAH, I WOULD, I'D BE WILLING TO PROVIDE THAT DIRECTION.

OKAY, WE'LL, WE'LL ROLL BACK AROUND INTO THERE.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.

YEAH, I JUST, UM, WANNA KIND OF POINT OUT WITH THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AND THE A TP PLAN, THERE IS A CONNECTION WITH THIS BRIDGE.

UM, WHEN YOU'RE WALKING ON THE TRAIL, EVENTUALLY WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET TO SCHOENBERGER, WHICH IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET ACROSS LAKEVILLE.

SO IT IS KIND OF INTEGRAL IN THE A TP PRO, UM, PLAN, BECAUSE THAT WAS A DIRECTION THAT WAS POINTED OUT TO GO QUESTION.

NO, I'M JUST, GOOD POINT.

I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, PUTTING THIS OUT.

BUT COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, IN ONE OF THE, UM, COUNCIL QUESTIONS, IT SAID, WHAT IF WE BUILT IT IN TWO PHASES, THE HOUSES AND THEN THE BRIDGE LATER.

AND IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN AN ANSWER BY STAFF THAT IT WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE AND IT WOULD BE NOISY, AND IT, IT WOULDN'T WORK.

SO THEN IT GOT ME TO THINKING, WHAT IF, IF WE HAVE TO BUILD THIS BRIDGE, IF WE PUT GATES LIKE THEY HAVE AT THE, UM, OVERCROSSING ON 1 0 1, THE PEDESTRIAN BIKE CROSSING FROM TARGET SHOPPING CENTER TO THE KRESGE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S A GATE AND IT, IF IT IS GONNA BE A PROBLEM, THERE'S GRAFFITI, THERE'S SITUATIONS THAT THE NEIGHBORS AREN'T HA HAPPY WITH.

WE KNOW THE TRAILS, THE BIKE, THE PE, THE, THE PEDESTRIAN PATH AND BIKE PATH ON BOTH SIDES IS IN BAD REPAIR.

IT'S NOT READY, PROBABLY WON'T BE READY FOR 10 YEARS TO CONNECT TO SCHOENBERGER.

BUT

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YES, YES.

I, I THINK YOU'RE ASKING CAN WE DO THE NO BRIDGE SOLUTION EXACTLY.

AND ADD AN AMENITY.

EXACTLY.

AND, AND I THINK WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS PLANNING COULD ADD THAT AMENITY AT, AT THE GATE PART, BUT THE NO BRIDGE PART IS A CERTAIN THING THAT NEEDS TO GET SORTED IN THE EVENING HERE.

UM, DO YOU WISH TO ADD TO THAT? I JUST, I WILL CLARIFY THAT THE, UM, COUNCIL CAN COLLECTIVELY, IF THAT'S WHAT'S DECIDED, UH, DIRECT THAT THE NO BRIDGE IS THE, IS THE PREFERRED AND WE WOULD NEED TO, WE'LL, YEAH, WE'RE WORKING ON FIGURING OUT WHAT EVERYBODY THINKS.

OH, I JUST, I WAS RESPONDING TO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW'S, UH, STATEMENT THAT THERE WAS COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.

SO JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, AGAIN, THIS, UH, THIS WAS GIVEN AS POLICY DIRECTION FROM THE PRIOR COUNSEL TO, UM, TO INCLUDE THE BRIDGE, UM, WHEN WE APPROVED THE MCKENNA PROJECT.

RIGHT.

UM, AND CAN YOU, DO YOU RECALL WHAT THE VOTE COUNT ON THAT POLICY DIRECTION WAS? WHETHER IT WAS UNANIMOUS WITH THE, THE APPROVAL OF THE PRIOR EIR? I DON'T, I DON'T RECALL.

BUT I, WE COULD LOOK IT UP.

I'M SURE WE HAVE A RECORD.

REDUCTION? NUMBER OF THREE STORIES DOWN TO TWO STORIES INCREASE IN THE PARK AREA.

YEAH, I JUST, UM, I WANT TO CLARIFY.

I BELIEVE IT WAS, I BELIEVE I WAS IN THE, IN THE ROOM THAT NIGHT.

UM, AND I JUST WANT TO CALL OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COUNCIL HAS GIVEN THIS DIRECTION, AT LEAST TWO OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS SITTING HERE GIVEN THIS DIRECTION, UM, THIS POLICY DIRECTION TO THE DEVELOPER, UM, OR THE APPLICANT.

UM, THE SECOND QUESTION ON THE, THE MEETING COUNTS, YOU MENTIONED THOSE.

HOW MANY HAVE WE HAD, HOW MANY DO WE GET? AND HOW MANY ARE STILL LEFT TO GO? UM, THANKS.

SO THERE, THERE'S SOME DEBATE ABOUT THIS TOO, BUT, UM, OUR VIEW IS THAT, UM, BECAUSE THE, THE, AND I'LL JUST, AND, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO BE, UM, UM, OPAQUE WITH THAT.

THE, THE, THE QUESTION IS, WHICH QUE MEETINGS COUNT IN THE, IN THE HEARING COUNT OF THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT? SO IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE, UM, WE'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS THAT COUNT TOWARD THE FIVE MINUTE FIVE MEETING LIMIT, THIS BEING THE THIRD ONE OR THE SECOND ONE.

UM, YES.

AND, AND STAFF WERE PLANNING TO, UM, R RESERVE, LET'S SEE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, THE FOR, FOR SITE PLAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW WOULD COUNT AS MEETING THREE.

UM, AND THE, THE THOUGHT OF STAFF WAS, UH, TO RESERVE A FOR, UM, A MEETING FOR A POTENTIAL CONTINUANCE AND ALSO, UM, FOR POTENTIAL APPEAL OF THE SPAR DECISION TO THE CITY COUNCIL.

AND THAT WOULD MAKE UP THE FIVE, DID I GET THAT RIGHT STAFF IN TERMS OF THE PLAN? UH, THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE'S BEEN TWO, TWO DATE.

SO, SO THIS IS THE THIRD, WELL, IT , WELL, I'M NOT SURE THIS COUNTS 'CAUSE IT'S A SEQUEL MEETING.

UM, BUT, UM, THE HEARING BEFORE SPAR DEFINITELY COUNTS IF THAT'S CONTINUED OR, UH, IF, IF THAT'S CONTINUED, THAT WOULD COUNT AND, AND AN APPEAL COULD COUNT.

SO I DON'T THINK THIS MEETING COUNTS, BUT THE SPAR DECISION AND IF IT WERE, WERE, UM, CONTINUED, THAT WOULD COUNT.

SO THAT WOULD BE TWO, AN APPEAL WOULD BE THREE.

AND, AND WE DEFINITELY KNOW THAT APPEALS COUNT IN THE MEETING COUNT UNDER THE HOUSING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.

SO, 'CAUSE THE SE QL COMPLIANCE MEETINGS, AGAIN, THERE'S DISAGREEMENT ABOUT THIS, BUT OUR VIEW IS THAT THE SE QL COMPLIANCE MEETINGS DO NOT COUNT.

UH, TO A QUESTION NOW, UM, IF WE COME TO A, A NO BRIDGE OPTION AS THE PREFERENCE IF WE GET THERE, WHICH ALSO MEANS THE TREES, WHICH ARE ALSO A PROBLEM, THE NUMBER OF TREES THAT DON'T HAVE TO GET REMOVED NOW SAVES THE DEVELOPER A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME, TROUBLE AND OTHER ISSUES GETTING THROUGH VARIOUS THINGS.

IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY THAT WE COULD ASK FOR SOME, UH, TRADE OF SOME SORT OF SOME, UH, MITIGATION? SO, UM, CHANGING THE PROPERTY TO DO ANYTHING, UH, CAN WE OFFER SOME SORT OF OTHER OPTIONS THAT WE WOULD PREFER ALSO OF

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UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER THINGS? IS, IS THERE ANY TRADES THAT COULD BE DONE AS FAR AS OTHER MITIGATIONS THAT COULD BE ASKED FOR IF WE SAVE THAT MUCH, THIS HUGE COST TO THE DEVELOPER? UH, WELL, MITIGATIONS ARE TIED TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

SO, UH, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS MAYBE SOME SORT OF DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT OR SOME, UM, YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD SEE AS WOULD BEING, BEING AN AMENITY OR, RIGHT.

UH, A SPECIFIC THING I, I, UH, I WOULD ASK FOR IS, COULD WE, UM, ASK FOR THAT, THE ACTUAL PATH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER ACTUALLY BECOMES, UH, UM, WORKED ON TO BECOME A, A NICE PATH RATHER THAN THE JUNK PATH THAT IT IS NOW.

UM, SO WE WOULD IMPROVE THAT PATH AND IT WOULD BECOME, UM, A NICE PATH.

AND THEN THERE WOULD BE, UH, NO BRIDGE IS WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT THE, THE RIGHT SUGGESTION TO IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY.

UH, I WOULD THINK WE'D DO A MENTORSHIP BETTER JOB OF, OF INCREASING CONNECTIVITY IF THAT PATH WAS IMPROVED AND MORE USED.

'CAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S NARROW AND MUDDY AND, AND, AND TRIP HAZARD.

UM, SO I, I WOULD THINK FOR CONNECTIVITY, IF FOR, FOR ME, BICYCLING AND WALKING, EVEN IF I'M IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, A NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR ME, HAVING THAT IMPROVED WOULD BE A BETTER SERVICE THAN, THAN A BRIDGE THE WAY I'M FEELING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW.

SO ANY, UH, CONDITION OR, UH, THAT'S IMPOSED ON A PROJECT HAS TO HAVE A, UH, AN APPROPRIATE, UM, NEXUS AND A TIE TO, UM, EITHER AN IMPACT OR A DIRECT, UM, UH, SO IT, IT COULD BE SOMETHING YOU ASK FOR, UM, FROM THE APPLICANT.

UH, BUT I DON'T THINK IT COULD BE A, A REQUIREMENT 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S AN APPROPRIATE NEXUS FOR THE PROJECT, ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S NO BRIDGE.

NOPE, NO.

CAN WE INCLUDE THAT AS A FINDING THAT THE BRIDGE WOULD NOT BE ANY MORE BENEFICIAL THAN A PATH IMPROVEMENT AS A FINDING? BECAUSE BOTH WOULD INCREASE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION? UH, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT FINDING WOULD GO TO SUPPORT, UM, NOT REQUIRING THE BRIDGE.

AND I, I THINK THE PRIMARY CHOICE OF THE COUNCIL, GIVEN WHAT OLIVIA JUST SAID, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE IN TERMS OF THERE NEEDING TO BE A, A LEGITIMATE BASIS FOR ACQUIRING A PRIVATE PROJECT TO PROVIDE A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER WHETHER SOME KIND OF CHANGE LIKE THAT WOULD ACTUALLY CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND REQUIRED TO BE ANALYZED.

UM, WITH RESPECT TO THAT, I THINK PRIMARILY WHAT THE COUNCIL HAS PRESENTED WITH, UM, IS THE RECORD SUPPORT FOR REQUIRING THE BRIDGE.

AND IF THE COUNCIL DOESN'T WISH TO DO THAT, DESPITE, UM, WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF THE EXISTING POLICIES, THEN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RECORD SUPPORT IN TERMS OF MAKING THIS DECISION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW TONIGHT, UM, TO NOT REQUIRE THE BRIDGE, UH, IT'S, I DON'T THINK IT'S A VEHICLE FOR HORSE TRADING IN TERMS OF THE PROJECT.

THANK YOU FOR WANT OF A BETTER WORD.

THANKS.

WHEN, BEFORE WE GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS WE WANNA ASK STAFF, THEN LET'S GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.

AND, UM, DID WE RECEIVE, UH, ANY PUBLIC COMMENT BY EMAIL? WE DID , UH, WE RECEIVED 21 COMMENTS BY EMAIL PRIOR TO THE MEETING.

I THINK WE'VE RECEIVED SEVERAL SINCE THEN, AND THOSE WILL BE POSTED TO THE WEBSITE AFTERWARDS AND SENT TO COUNSEL AS WELL.

UM, I'LL READ THE, UH, INSTRUCTIONS.

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.

ALL ONE.

WE HAVE, UM, 14 CARDS, UM, FOR TONIGHT.

AND, UM, BUT WE'LL ALLOW THE THREE MINUTES PER, BUT I'M THINKING A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE A VERY SIMILAR COMMENT TO THE NEIGHBOR AND IT NEED NOT USE THE THREE MINUTES IF IT'S NOT NEW INFORMATION AND WE'LL ALL GET TO THE NEXT PART SOONER.

BUT, UM, PLEASE SAY EVERYTHING YOU WANNA SEE, SAY, AND, UM, AND IF IT'S BEEN SAID, JUST SAY, THAT'S EXACTLY MY FEELING AS WELL.

SO, UM, OUR FIRST SPEAKER WOULD BE, UH, DOYLE HEATON,

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AND THE SECOND DEBORAH.

UH, MY NAME IS DOYLE EATON WITH FALCON POINT AND MCD.

UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR OVER THREE TO FOUR YEARS, AS YOU KNOW, FROM OUR SON.

I WOULD LIKE TO HOLD MY COMMENTS UNTIL LATER.

I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE OTHER PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO RESERVE TO HOLD MINE LATER.

UM, THANK, I THINK WE CAN ALLOW THAT AS YOU'RE THE PROPERTY OWNER AND NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY.

SO DEBORAH BRETT TO BE FOLLOWED BY JACK BYRNE.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

UM, WHAT I UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE ACCOUNTABILITY HOUSING ACT, WHICH I THINK IT'S SB THREE 30, I'M NOT SURE, BUT IT SEEMS THAT IT HOLDS YOU HOSTAGE TO DO WHAT THE STATE TELLS YOU AND NOT WHO YOU REPRESENT AS THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE.

SO YOU ARE REPRESENTING THE STATE BECAUSE YOU ARE HELD HOSTAGE TO DO SO BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL, WHATEVER OTHER THINGS YOU'VE GOT ON THE TABLE.

BUT ALL WHAT I HEARD HERE IS THE NORTH BRIDGE HAS A HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND THE SOUTH BRIDGE HAS A LITTLE LESS OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

IT STILL HAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

NOW, AREN'T WE INTERESTED IN PRESERVING OUR ENVIRONMENT, OR ARE WE INTERESTED IN CONNECTING A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE? THIS BRIDGE GOES RIGHT INTO A VERY CLOSED UP NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE SEE WHAT THE TARGET BRIDGE LOOKS LIKE.

IT'S A TERRIBLE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE IT DROPPED IN.

IT'S HORRIBLE.

DO YOU WANNA LIVE THERE? DO YOU WANT TO LIVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TARGET WHERE THAT BRIDGE CONNECTS PEOPLE? SO THIS BRIDGE IS GOING TO CONNECT MAYBE TWO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO WALK TO SCHOOL ACROSS THE BRIDGE.

LOCKING THE BRIDGE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE WHO'S GONNA BE CONNECTED WHEN IT'S LOCKED? I MEAN, THAT, THAT PART I, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND GETTING TO SCHOENBERGER, GREAT.

WE ALL WANNA GET THERE, BUT SERIOUSLY, IT'S SAFER TO JUST WALK DOWN CASA, TURN ON SOORI, AND THEN THERE'S TWO PATHS ALONG THE CREEK TO GET TO SCHOENBERGER.

SO WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN ON PAPER VERSUS IN REALITY IS THAT NO ONE'S GETTING OUT OF THEIR CARS.

PARENTS ARE GONNA PICK UP AND DROP OFF THEIR KIDS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

KIDS ARE GONNA COME AND DRIVE, WHICH THEY ALREADY DO TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND PARK TO SCHOOL OR DROP EACH OTHER OFF.

IT'S GONNA BE A CONNECTIVITY OF A BUNCH OF KIDS, AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING.

ON TOP OF THE FACT, THERE'S GRAFFITI ON, ON THE, THE BRIDGE DOWN THE ROAD ON SOTO'S BRIDGES, GRAFFITIED OUT, HOMELESS COMING THERE.

SO REALLY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, YOU'RE GOING TO CAUSE AN UNHEALTHY NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE DON'T HAVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

WE HAVE THE PATH GOES RIGHT TO ELI SAFE WALK CROSSWALKS, THEY DON'T MEET.

AND THEN IF YOU'RE GOING INTO MCKENNA, I THINK YOU'RE GOING INTO MCKENNA, THAT ROAD, THAT PIECE THAT, UH, WHERE THEY HAVE THE PARK BACK THERE THAT'S ACTUALLY A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY AND THE ACCESS TO THAT LITTLE PARK IN THE BACK WHERE I THINK THE, I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT DROPPING INTO THERE.

IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A LITTLE ALLEY ALONG SOMEONE'S FENCE.

SO PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE WALKING ON THAT PERSON'S DRIVEWAY.

THANK YOU, JACK.

BY TO BE FOLLOWED BY MEGAN, UH, TERRELL.

AND, UM, DO YOU NEED THE SIX MINUTES? I SEE, YES.

I, I'M, I'M NOT GONNA USE ALL THREE.

I'LL TRY TO BE FAST.

AND, AND MEGAN, WILL YOU WAVE? YEAH, THERE YOU GO.

STUDY INACCURATELY CLAIMS THAT THERE'S A MASSIVE, UH, ZONE 3 0 5 CONTRIBUTION TO CONNECTIVITY AND VMT REDUCTION.

UH, I'M AWED BY THE BREADTH AND DEPTH, A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT YOU ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH.

COUNCIL, THE STAFF, I APPRECIATE ALL THE HELP YOU'VE PROVIDED OPENLY AND, UH, UH, I ESPECIALLY THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE BECAUSE THIS ISSUE IS PRETTY COMPLEX, SO COMPLEX, I THINK IT LEADS TO MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

SO LET'S TRY TO CLEAR, UH, A FEW OF THOSE UP.

WE FAVOR AND, AND I'M SPEAKING FOR LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED AND EVEN SIGNED PETITIONS.

YOU KNOW, YOU'LL HEAR A FINAL NUMBER LATER ON, WE FAVOR THIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE REALLY DON'T WANT MORE TIME, CITY TIME AND EXPENSE, YOU KNOW, PUT TOWARDS A, A BRIDGE THAT'S REALLY A WASTE.

A COUPLE OF WORDS THAT YOU'VE TAUGHT ME, CONNECTIVITY, MY DECEMBER 14TH STATEMENT AND MAPS GIVE CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT THE DRAFT EIRS TRAFFIC

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AND, UH, I APPRECIATE THAT YOU'VE, SOUNDS LIKE SOME OF YOU HAVE READ THAT BECAUSE IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT A MAP OTHER THAN THE ONE NEIGHBORHOOD OF SPYGLASS, YOU CAN'T GET TO THE BRIDGE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET TO THE TRAIL UNLESS YOU GO UP TO ELI OR SPYGLASS OR DOWN TO SARTORE.

YOU COULD LIVE A HALF A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE TRAIL, UH, AND, AND NOT GET THERE.

AND IF YOU HAVE TO GO, YOU KNOW, AROUND, IT'S NOT A SHORTCUT.

IT'S NOT FAVORABLE.

AND SO TAKING IN ALL OF ZONE 3 0 5 AND IT'S 1,846, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS, UH, GLAD I LEARNED THAT NUMBER, UH, WHEN ONLY 44 HOUSES AND, AND MAYBE A HUNDRED RESIDENTS ARE IMPACTED.

YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT ACCURATE.

WE ALSO SHOWED THAT APPENDIX A'S STATEMENT THAT THERE'S A 1500 FOOT REDUCTION COMING FROM GROVE APARTMENTS, AS HAS BEEN ALLUDED TO, IS INACCURATE.

THERE'S NO WAY TO GET THERE FROM, FROM GROVE.

YOU HAVE TO GO UP TO ELI OVER AND THEN, AND THEN BACK DOWN.

SO IT, IT'S A WASTE.

AND, AND I'VE BEEN TOLD THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT SECURITY.

THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED IN A PROVEN, UH, DETRIMENT TO SAFETY AND CRIME BY OPENING UP A BACK ENTRANCE OUT OF THE GROVE APARTMENT, YOU KNOW, COMPLEX.

SO THOUGH MAYBE NOT GIGANTIC IN ITS IMPACT ON THE VMT REDUCTION, I THINK THOSE TWO ERRORS JUST TWO POINT OUT THAT HOW EASILY MANY OF US, I'M NOT POINTING AT YOU, BUT MANY OF US MISUNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF, OF THE BRIDGE.

BRIDGES ARE A GREAT GENERAL IDEA.

THEY'RE WONDERFUL.

CONNECTIVITY IS A GREAT, WONDERFUL VISION IF YOU'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY.

SO, SO I'LL TAKE MY SECOND ONE.

THANKS.

IF YOU'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY, IF YOU'RE GONNA VOTE, WE SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT THE SPECIFICS.

YOU'VE ALSO TAUGHT ME THE WORD ADEQUACY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, PART OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS.

I THINK A BIGGER ISSUE THAN EVEN WHAT I'VE JUST TALKED ABOUT IS THIS DOES NOT ADDRESS CONCERNS.

WE PREVIOUSLY RAISED HERE IN SEPTEMBER MEETINGS, WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN RESPONDED TO IN THE EIR REPORT.

AND I'M TALKING ABOUT, UH, AND, AND I'M, I'M SAVING TIME, I'M NOT BRINGING YOU A MAP, BUT SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE LOOKED AT THE DRAWING THAT'S IN THE PACKAGE THAT SHOWS A 10 FOOT WIDE BRIDGE AND A 10 FOOT WIDE PATHWAY COMING OUT OF CREEKWOOD, BECAUSE THAT'S THE STANDARD, AS I UNDERSTAND FROM MULTI-USE PATH.

TAKE A LOOK AT THAT DRAWING.

IT'S ALMOST FUNNY THAT IT SHOWS RUNNING INTO THIS LITTLE TINY FOUR FOOT PATH THAT WE'VE ALREADY SAID.

IT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF ONE OF THOSE.

THAT PATH DOESN'T HAVE ROOM FOR SOMEBODY PASSING ME ON A BICYCLE IF I'M GOING THE OTHER WAY, OR ME TO PASS SOMEBODY ELSE.

YET THE PROJECT DESIGN, AS IT'S PROPOSED ON THE BRIDGE, UH, UH, SELECTION FUNNELS, TRAFFIC INTO THAT FOUR FOOT PATHWAY AND EXPECTS THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA GO THROUGH THE MCKENNA PATHWAY INSTEAD OF THROUGH CREEKWOOD.

AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE RESPONSES, THERE'S NO ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ON WIDENING THAT FOREFOOT PATHWAY, UH, AGAINST A FEMA APPROVED AND CONTROLLED BASIN, WHICH I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.

THERE'S NO RESPONSE ON HANDLING THE FOREFOOT SPANS BETWEEN FENCES EVEN IN THAT AREA.

WHEN YOU CAN'T TAKE LAND FROM PROPERTY OWNERS, SOME OF THEM ONLY HAVE THREE OR FOUR FOOT SETBACK ON THE SIDES BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS DESIGNED.

YOU CAN'T WIDEN THAT, THAT, THAT FOUR FEET, IT'S A PROBLEM.

THERE'S NO RESPONSE ON WHETHER THAT'S EVEN ACHIEVABLE.

IT'S TOTALLY IGNORED, AND I HAVEN'T FOUND IT IN THE REPORT YET.

UH, THE EIR ALSO DOESN'T ADDRESS THE COST IMPACT IF YOU ARE EVEN TO FIND A WAY TO UPGRADE THE MCKENNA PATHWAY.

SO MY PRESUMPTION IS SOMEONE'S PRESUMING THAT THE MCKENNA OWNERS ARE GONNA PAY FOR THOSE UPGRADES SAME WAY SOMEONE'S EXPECTING SOMEBODY ELSE IS GONNA PAY FOR THAT BRIDGE.

WE'RE NOT HAPPY THINKING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE SADDLE WITH EITHER THE EXPENSE TO UPGRADE THE AREA OR THE LATER EXPENSE TO HANDLE A FOUR FOOT PATHWAY.

THAT IS NOT A MULTI-USE PATH.

GIVEN THESE TWO ISSUES ALONE, I DON'T THINK THE EIR WE DON'T THINK THE EIR CAN BE ACCEPTED

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AS ADEQUATE UNLESS, AND HERE'S YOUR SOLUTION, UNLESS IT BECOMES A NO BRIDGE EIR.

AND IF IT BECOMES A NO BRIDGE, EIR OH, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THOSE BRIDGE ISSUES GO AWAY.

SO WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS RESCUE THE INADEQUATE EIR BY STIPULATING A CONDITION THAT IT BE NO BRIDGE.

AND IS THIS POSSIBLE? WELL, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR, AND YOU'VE READ, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, COMMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT SAYS THE LOCAL BENEFIT, WHO ACTUALLY SEE THE REAL CONNECTIVITY OR A LACK OF IT, THEY'RE NOT IN FAVOR OF A BRIDGE.

THANKS VERY MUCH AND APPRECIATE ALL THE ATTENTION THAT YOU'RE GIVING THIS.

AND, UH, TONY, UM, YOUR TIME WAS WELL APPRECIATED THERE BY JACK.

THE CARDS WERE STACKED TOGETHER FOR US TO DO THAT.

AND, UH, CAROLYN PATEL IS OUR NEXT SPEAKER TO BE FOLLOWED BY PATRICIA BELICHICK.

THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS.

FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR HAVING AN OPEN AND OBJECTIVE, UM, MIND TO TONIGHT'S MEETING.

MY NAME'S CAROLINE PATEL.

I'VE LIVED AT 1748 SPYGLASS SINCE 1997, WHERE I, I'VE RAISED ALL FOUR OF MY KIDS.

I'VE BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY SPORTING COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS THE PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS FOR ALL OF THOSE 27 YEARS.

THE FLASHING BEACONS AT AN OLD ADOBE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU DRIVE ADOBE WAS SPEARHEADED BY ME AND MIKE KERNS FOR THE SAFETY OF THAT SCHOOL.

I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE NO BRIDGE PROPOSAL.

I'VE MOVED INTO FAIRWAY MEADOWS SMALL SUBDIVISION 'CAUSE I WANTED A SAFE PLACE FOR MY KIDS TO PLAY AND TO GROW UP.

AND WHAT BETTER PLACE IN THIS SUBDIVISION? THERE'S FAIRWAY MEADOWS DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU ARE PROPOSING THE BRIDGE TO BE ADJACENT TO MUST NOT HAPPEN.

THE CITY APPROVED THE FAIRWAY MEADOWS SMALL DEVELOPMENT, A 41 HOMES FOR A REASON AS A NO WAY IN AND A NO WAY OUT.

YOU CANNOT DRIVE THROUGH ADOBE, UH, FAIRWAY MEADOWS.

IT IS ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT WITH NO EASEMENT OF ANY FUTURE ROADS TO BE DEVELOPED THAT WE WERE TOLD.

I WANNA BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT A HUNDRED OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND NEIGHBORHOODS, THIS INCLUDES SPYGLASS SILVERADO MCKENNA, AND DEL ORO DEL.

SO REPRESENTING 70 OF THE HOMES CLOSEST TO CREEKWOOD AND PROPOSED BRIDGE WERE PUBLIC, ARE PUBLICLY ON RECORD SIGNED PETITIONS THAT THE COUNCIL HAS RECEIVED FOR THE NO BRIDGE.

I THINK THAT YOU WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THIS IS AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FOR ALL THREE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE MOST DIRECTLY IMPACTED.

AND I HELPED GAIN SOME OF THE SIGNATURES AND WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE TONIGHT TO SUPPORT THE BRIDGE, TO CLARIFY THAT WE ARE IN NO WAY OPPOSED TO THE OVERALL PROJECT OR OPPOSED OF ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT IS TO THE RATHER SPECIFICS OUTLINE OF THE PETITION, PRIMARILY THE NO BRIDGE.

I HAVE TO SAY, IF YOU PERSONALLY LIVED IN THIS DEVELOPMENT, YOU WOULD BE CONCERNED THAT THE PROPOSED B***H WOULD CREATE A PARKING OVERFLOW PROBLEM FOR CREEKWOOD INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND WE ALREADY HAVE A PARKING OVERFLOW ISSUE WITH THE GROVE APARTMENT COMPLEX EVERY SINGLE DAY.

AS THE LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT IN OUR SMALL DISTRICT DOES NOT ADEQUATELY MAINTAIN THE AIRWAY OF FAIRWAY MEADOWS, THEY DO NOT MAINTAIN THE FAIRWAY.

UH, MS NOW ALSO SAID THAT WE HAVE AN HOA, WE DO NOT HAVE AN HOA, WE JUST PAY TAXES ON IT AND NOTHING EVER GETS DONE.

IT IS THE MOST UNMAINTAINED PART OF PETALUMA, I THINK THAT WE HAVE.

UM, WOULD THIS BE THE SAME FOR THE BRIDGE? AND IF NOT, WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT WITH RESPECT TO THE CREEK? ADOBE CREEK IS A BEAUTIFUL ASSET TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT A BRIDGE WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AS WELL AS AN INCREDIBLE IMPACT ON THE ENDANGERED STEELHEAD THAT RUN UPSTREAM THAT'S NOT BEEN MENTIONED YET.

WE AS A COMMUNITY WOULD BE MOST EFFECTIVE AND IMPACTED RESPECTFULLY AS THE COUNCIL, WE ASK THE COUNCIL RESPECTFULLY TO ELIMINATE ALL BRIDGE OPTIONS THAT ARE NO BRIDGE BY AMENDING THE ERA BEFORE PASSING IT.

UH, WITH REGARDS TO WHAT DR.

SHRI HAS SPEAKING, THERE IS ALSO NO EXIT OUT OF THAT PATHWAY.

IT GOES RIGHT INTO, UM, A A, A CEMENT WALL TO, INTO DEL ORO.

SO THAT WOULD HAVE TO ALSO BE, UH, FIXED.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU PATRICIA BELICHICK TO BE FOLLOWED BY CHERYL WELCH.

HELLO EVERYONE.

I ALSO RESPECTFULLY SUPPORT THE NO BRIDGE OPTION AND FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE ERA TO STOP THAT BRIDGE.

UM, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME BECAUSE I'M OUT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AT LEAST FOUR TIMES A DAY OF WALKING MY DOG.

SO I'VE MET THE SKUNKS AND THE FOXES AND THE BAMMIES, AND WITH ALL THIS RAIN IN THE LAST, THE FIRST STORM, AND NOW THESE OTHER FEW DAYS, I CAN BE ON THE SIDEWALK AND SEE THE CREEK NOW WHERE I'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.

SO THERE IS SO MUCH WATER THAT COMES THROUGH THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THAT COMES DOWN OFF THE MOUNTAINS THAT YOU CAN SEE UP AT THE END OF CASA

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GRANDE.

AND AS YOU MENTIONED IN THE REPORT EARLIER ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, WITH MORE RUNOFF FROM MORE DEVELOPMENT AND MORE HARDSCAPING, THE WATER'S GOTTA GO SOMEWHERE.

SO I THINK THAT THE BRIDGE WOULD REALLY CREATE MORE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM FOR THAT CREEK TO CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS IT DOES, BECAUSE THEN IT FLOWS SO QUICKLY AND GOES RIGHT DOWN TO THE PETALUMA RIVER.

AND I REALLY THINK THAT THAT'S A, AN IMPORTANT PART, UM, TO REALLY BE AWARE OF.

AND UM, AS MENTIONED, IT'S EVEN IN WIKIPEDIA ABOUT THE FISH, THE STUDY THAT WAS DONE BY ONE OF THE CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS.

AND THEY, THEY FOUND THAT THERE WERE FISH IN THE CREEK.

NOT, NOT RECENTLY WITH THE DROUGHT PROBLEMS, BUT I'M REALLY GRATEFUL IT'S BEEN RAINING AND, UH, I'D LOVE TO SEE THE NEIGHBORHOOD BE CONNECTED BUT NOT HAVE, UM, THE BRIDGE BECAUSE IT REALLY DOESN'T, IT'S NOT, NOT LIKE IT'S GONNA LEAD YOU TO A STORE OR ANYTHING.

I THANK YOU MR. SHRIVES FOR COMING OUT TO LOOK AT IT BECAUSE I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

GOODNIGHT AND THANK YOU CHERYL WELSH TO BE FOLLOWED BY DAVID PSY.

I THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA.

I LIVE ON SPYGLASS ROAD.

UM, WE BOUGHT OUR HOME IN A CUL-DE-SAC FOR THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY IT PROVIDES.

AND NOW THAT'S BEING JEOPARDIZED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, MAKING DECISIONS THAT WILL AFFECT US, NOT THEM.

TO BE CLEAR, WE ARE AGAINST A BRIDGE INSTALLED OVER ADOBE CREEK DIRECTLY INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THE BRIDGE WILL ALLOW EASIER ENTRY INTO OUR CUL-DE-SAC FROM CASA GRANDE ROAD.

IT WILL INVITE STUDENTS FROM CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL TO USE THE BRIDGE TO ACCESS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, THE CREEK AREA, AND POTENTIALLY HOPPING FENCES TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX.

BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER SCHOOL, WE EXPERIENCED INCREASED STUDENT ACTIVITY IN OUR AREA WHEN THERE WAS A GATE AT THE BACK ACCESS TO THE APARTMENT COMPLEX.

MANY YEARS AGO, KIDS USED THE CREEK AREA TO SMOKE, DRINK, AND HANG OUT.

THERE WERE TWO FIRES BEHIND OUR HOME DURING THAT TIME.

SINCE THE ACCESS WAS FULLY CLOSED, THE REDUCED ACTIVITY IS GREATLY NOTED AND WITH A BRIDGE, I FEAR IT WILL INCREASE AGAIN AND PUT SAFETY AND SECURITY AT RISK.

WE HAVE HAD KIDS HOP FENCES AND CROSS THROUGH OUR BACKYARD TO GET TO APARTMENTS AS IT IS WITHOUT THE ADDED EASE OF THE BRIDGE.

THIS BRIDGE WILL ALSO INVITE RESIDENTS OF THE NEW BUILDINGS THAT HAVE PLANNED LIMITED PARKING TO PARK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH WALKING BRIDGE ACCESS BACK TO THEIR HOMES, CREATING MORE SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

IN ADDITION TO SAFETY, OUR CREEK IS HOME TO MANY ANIMALS, INCLUDING DEER AND A FAMILY OF ADORABLE FOXES.

A BRIDGE IN THE LOSS OF TREES AND SHRUBS TO MAKE ROOM FOR IT WILL GREATLY IMPACT THE HOMES AND SECURITY OF THESE VALUED ANIMALS.

LASTLY, THE LOSS OF TREES WILL AFFECT OUR PRIVACY AND THE VIEW WE ENJOY.

AS WELL AS THE TREES BLOCKING OUT THE UNWANTED VIEWS OF INCREASED CONSTRUCTION AND THE THREE STORY BUILDINGS THAT ARE PLANNED.

WE ENJOY THE PRIVACY OUR CREEK NATURE PROVIDES.

IN FACT, IT'S A MAIN REASON WE PURCHASED OUR HOME IN THIS LOCATION 25 YEARS AGO.

UM, MY HUSBAND AND I WALK THAT PATH FROM OUR HOME.

WE LIVE RIGHT THERE NEXT TO THE CREEK, UM, AND WE WALK THAT PATH, THAT PATH ENDS AT LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY WITH NO CROSSWALK RIGHT THERE, UM, AND NO SIDEWALK TO GET TO THE CROSSWALK.

SO A SAFER WAY IS DOWN MCDOWELL, UH, OR DOWN CASA TO MCDOWELL TO THE CROSSWALK TO GET TO SCHOENBERGER PARK.

OUR PETITION HAS THE NAMES OF A HUNDRED NEIGHBORS REPRESENTING 70 HOMES WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.

THIS BRIDGE WOULD IMPACT ALL SAYING NO TO THE BRIDGE.

PLEASE LISTEN TO US, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE.

PLEASE VALUE OUR THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS AND DON'T INVADE OUR QUIET, PRIVATE, SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH THIS BRIDGE.

IT IS NOT NECESSARY AND NOT WANTED.

PLEASE, WE IMPLORE YOU TO ELIMINATE ALL BRIDGE OPTIONS BY AMENDING THE EAR WITH NO BRIDGE BEFORE PASSING IT.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.

THANK YOU DAVID AXLEY TO BE FOLLOWED BY AMY HILTED.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

UM, I WANT TO SAY FIRST OFF THAT WE ARE NOT, OR I'M NOT AGAINST THE CREEKWOOD, UH, COMPLEX AT ALL.

I AM AGAINST THE EIR THAT HAS A BRIDGE IN, IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT.

I THINK ANY IMPACT AT ALL TO THE CREEK AND ANIMAL SPECIES IS, IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

UM, I DO, UM, ALSO THINK THAT IF YOU COME OVER THE BRIDGE AND YOU MAKE THE RIGHT HAND TURN, IT TURNS INTO A DIRT PATH AND TRYING TO PUT BIKES, PEDESTRIANS, PEDESTRIANS WITH DOGS, AND WE CAN'T EVEN CONTROL THE DOGS ON A 10 FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK, LET ALONE WITH BICYCLES AND OTHER THINGS.

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UM, I AM WITH, WITH MY, UH, OTHER CONSTITUENTS IN THE SILVERADO SPY GLASS, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE DON'T WANT THE BRIDGE IN THE EIR.

AND LIKE THEY HAVE ALSO SAID, UH, 100 SIGNATURES FROM 70 HOUSEHOLDS IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY DEFINITIVE STATEMENT.

THANK YOU AMY STEAD.

AND I SEE THAT UH, SARAH GO LIGHTLY IS SEATING TIME.

WILL YOU BE NEEDING THAT TIME? UM, I MIGHT.

I MIGHT.

AND SO, UH, SARAH, WILL YOU WAIVE AT US? THANK YOU.

HI.

SO MY NAME IS AMY TON AND I AM ONE OF THE, IT'S ACTUALLY 102 PEOPLE.

WE HAD A FEW MORE WHO SIGNED TODAY, UM, REPRESENTING 72 HOMES, UM, WHO SIGNED THAT PETITION, WHO WORKED TOGETHER TO HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD TO ASK YOU TODAY TO, UM, AMEND THE EEIR TO REMOVE THE BRIDGE OPTION.

UM, BASED ON CONCERNS FOUND IN THE EIR, UM, THAT SIGNIFICANTLY CHALLENGES ITS CREDIBILITY AND DOES NOT ADDRESS ADEQUATELY MAJOR SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS REGARDING THESE CONNECTED PATHWAYS.

UM, SOME OF THESE CREDIBILITY AND SAFETY CHALLENGES INCLUDE, UM, THAT USES FLAWED DATA AND INACCURATE BMT STATISTICS THAT INFLATES THE COMMUTER POPULATION THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE PROPOSED BRIDGE.

UM, THAT WAS ALREADY ADDRESSED EARLIER TONIGHT, SO I WON'T GO INTO SPECIFICS.

IT ALSO FALSELY STATES THAT THE BRIDGE REDUCES TRAVEL SAVING FIVE TO SIX MINUTES FOR THOSE WALKING TO OR FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL.

ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH THE CURRENT COMMUTING ROUTES KNOW THAT KNOWS THAT IT ONLY TAKES FIVE TO FIVE TO SIX MINUTES IN TOTAL TO WALK FROM THE VEHICLE CROSSING AT ELI TO CASA.

SO FOR THAT STATEMENT TO BE CORRECT, THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THE PEDESTRIAN WOULD BE ARRIVING AT CASA THE MOMENT THEY STEPPED OFF OF THE BRIDGE, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT THE CASE AND IS A FALSE CLAIM IN THE REPORT.

IT ALSO FALSELY STATES THAT A NEW BRIDGE WOULD ENABLE PEOPLE TO TRAVEL A MORE DIRECT ROUTE THAT OFFERS GREATER SEPARATION FROM VEHICLE TRAFFIC.

THE PROPOSED PATH IS NOT DIRECT AND IT'S ACTUALLY MORE HAZARDOUS TO A WALKER OR A BIKER.

THIS IS BECAUSE THE PATH HAS SEVERAL BACKTRACKING SWITCHBACKS AND REQUIRES PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS TO NAVIGATE THROUGH INADEQUATELY SIZED PATHWAYS AND CONGESTED NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE VEHICLES ARE ENTERING AND EXITING THEIR DRIVEWAYS.

I HAVE NEARLY HIT BIKERS AND WALKERS WHERE I AM LOCATED AT MCKENNA.

AND WHEN I WAS LIVING OUT IN SOUTHGATE, IT IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR A BIKER AND WALKER TO BE WALKING THROUGH VERY HEAVILY CONGESTED NEIGHBORHOODS.

CREEKWOOD CREEKWOOD WILL BE NO DIFFERENT.

MCKENNA IS CLEARLY VERY HEAVILY CONGESTED.

THE CURRENT ROUTE OFFERS PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS A MORE SAFE AND DIRECT LINEAR ROUTE THAT IS FULLY PAVED AND UNOBSTRUCTED BY UNSAFE DRIVEWAYS.

IT ALSO FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND MODIFICATIONS NEEDED ALONG THE MCKENNA TRAIL TO ADDRESS SIGNIFICANT SAFETY AND, UM, PRIVACY CONCERNS TO ACHIEVE ITS FALSELY STATED TIME, UM, TIME REDUCTION BENEFIT.

SOME OF THESE CONCERNS INCLUDE THE INADEQUATE AND UNSAFE WIDTH THAT JACK WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE MCKENNA PATHWAY THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW PEDESTRIANS OR BICYCLISTS TO SHARE THE PATH.

AND IT DIRECTS COMMUTERS TO UNSAFELY CROSS A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY AND JUMP AN ACCESS GATE THAT WAS PLACED THERE TO PREVENT PEDESTRIANS FROM ACTUALLY USING THAT PRIVATE DRIVEWAY.

THERE IS NOT A PEDESTRIAN EASEMENT ON THAT DRIVEWAY, IT'S ONLY A UTILITIES EASEMENT.

NO PEDESTRIANS OR BICYCLISTS SHOULD BE USING THAT PRIVATE DRIVEWAY.

AND THAT WILL BE THE ONLY EXIT ROUTE I CAN CONTINUE THAT IS THE ONLY EXIT ROUTE BECAUSE THE OTHER TRUE ENTRANCE AND EXIT IS ONLY FOUR FEET WIDE AND CANNOT SAFELY HANDLE BICYCLISTS AND WALKERS TOGETHER.

ADDRESSING THESE, UM, ADDRESSING THESE CONCERNS THROUGH MODIFICATIONS COULD POTENTIALLY VIOLATE THE ORIGINAL MCKENNA ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVALS.

SO NOT EVALUATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF MODIFYING THE MCKENNA PATHWAY IS A SIGNIFICANT OVERSIGHT AND CHALLENGE TO THE CREEKWOOD EIR CREDIBILITY.

THE INSTALLATION OF THE BRIDGE WOULD BE DESTROYING PARTS OF A PROTECTED AREA OF LAND WITH IMPACTS TO THE FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM FOUND THEREIN, THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD VOTE IN A WAY THAT IT EXPECTS ITS OWN CITIZENS TO ABIDE BY FOR A PROTECTED HABITAT, AND THAT IS TO FOLLOW CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS REQUIRING NO ALTERATIONS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PROTECTED SPACE.

ONE THING THAT I MENTIONED IN MY EMAIL TO ALL OF YOU, UM, EARLIER THIS WEEK IS THAT AT ONE POINT WE WERE IN A REQUIRED, UM, FLOOD INSURANCE ZONE BECAUSE OF THE, UM, MODIFICATIONS THAT WERE MADE TO THE MCKENNA DEVELOPMENT AND THEY WERE RAISED, WE WERE, UM, REZONED FAVORABLY TO NOT BE IN A REQUIRED FLOOD INSURANCE ZONE, MAKING ANY ALTERATIONS TO THE CREEK COULD POTENTIALLY CAUSE THAT REZONING TO GO BACK TO A REQUIRED INSURANCE ZONE, WHICH WILL AFFECT ALL OF THE CREEKWOOD RESIDENTS, ALL OF THE MCKENNA RESIDENTS AND POTENTIALLY

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DEL ORO RESIDENTS TOO.

I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE ALSO IN THOSE ZONES.

UM, I ALSO WANTED TO SPEAK PERSONALLY ABOUT THE ADOBE CREEK TAIL TRAIL BECAUSE WE WERE LIVING IN SOUTHGATE BEFORE WE MOVED TO MCKENNA.

WE WERE VERY EXCITED TO, UM, BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT MOVE.

AND SO THERE WAS SEVERAL TIMES WHEN I TOOK MY YOUNG CHILDREN, UM, WHEN MY HUSBAND WAS WORKING, UM, AND I TRIED TO WALK THAT ADOBE TRAIL TRAIL SO WE COULD JUST TAKE A LITTLE PEEK FROM THE BACK TRAIL TO SEE OUR NEW HOME THAT WAS BEING BUILT.

AND I GOT TO THE POINT WHERE THOSE COBBLESTONES GET LIKE REALLY MESSED LIKE CRAZY AND THEN IT JUST KIND OF ENDS AND I AND THE WEEDS WERE LIKE, SPILLED OVER AND I SAID, NOPE, WE'RE NOT GOING ANY FURTHER.

I FEEL UNSAFE.

AND SO TO THIS DAY, I STILL DON'T LET MY CHILDREN WHO ARE TEENAGERS, ONE OF WHICH IS AT CASA WALK, THAT TRAIL ALONE, IT IS INCREDIBLY UNSAFE.

THERE'S NO EXIT ROUTES.

AND THIS BRIDGE WILL NOT CREATE AN EXIT ROUTE BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY IN THE SAFEST PART OF THE ADOBE CREEK TRAIL.

SO IT'S NOT GONNA MAKE THAT TRAIL ANY SAFER.

UM, FOR THESE REASONS, I ASK THAT YOU PLEASE VOTE TO MODIFY THE E-R-I-E-I-R TO A NO BRIDGE OPTION AND REMOVE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MCKENNA AND CREEKWOOD PATHWAYS.

GONNA END UP? IT'S GONNA BE DANGEROUS AS A FORMER HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AND MYSELF AS A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE A CROSSWALK.

UH, RYAN WONG TO BE FOLLOWED BY MARIA DETO.

ALL RIGHT.

HELLO, MAYORS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, CITY STAFF AS WELL.

UM, MY NAME IS RYAN WONG, LIFETIME PETALUMA, UH, RESIDENT AND A CLASS OF 2010 AT CASA GRANDE.

HI, MR. RIBS.

UM, AND I COME HERE, UH, HOLDING THE MUCH VAUNTED PETITION THAT I SO MANY OF US HAVE NOT ONLY SEEN AND SIGNED, BUT HAS NO DOUBT HAD AN IMPACT ON HOW EXACTLY WE VIEW THIS ISSUE.

BUT THE VERY MESSAGE ITSELF IS VERY CLEAR.

WE DON'T HAVE A, NECESSARILY AN ISSUE WITH EXPANSION OF H UM, HOUSING OR, UH, ANY OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE HAVE A VERY CLEAR ISSUE WITH THIS BRIDGE.

UM, THE SIGNATORIES FOR THIS PETITION CAME FROM NEIGHBORHOODS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BOTH MOST DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS, UH, UH, CHANGE, BUT ALSO ARE THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT WHAT THE DYNAMICS ON THE GROUND ARE.

WE KNOW HOW BROKEN SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS.

WE KNOW HOW THE LOCAL COMMUNITY HANDLES THINGS, BOTH UPSTANDING AND NOT.

AND ALSO JUST HOW MUCH DIFFERENT, SOME OF THE, HOW MUCH, MANY BETTER ALTERNATIVES ARE OUT THERE OF THIS PETITION.

OF THE 41, UH, HOUSEHOLDS THAT WERE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO WHERE THESE BRIDGES WOULD BE, 88% OF THEM SAID NO GO.

THEY ARE ON THIS PETITION.

THEY ARE SAYING, NO, WE HAVE OVER 100 SIGNATURES, UM, REPRESENTING OVER 70 HOUSEHOLDS, ALL SAYING, NO, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE A GOOD, UH, ADDITION.

AND BASED ON WHAT WE'VE HEARD TONIGHT, I, WE'VE HEARD THAT NOT ONLY IS THE PETITION GROWING, BUT WE HAVE ADDITIONAL CONCERNS THAT ARE COMING UP FOR ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE, UM, BEING MENTIONED.

WE HAVE COST CONCERNS, WE HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS, WE HAVE POTENTIAL SAFETY CONCERNS COMING OUT.

AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA BE MOST IMPACTED BY THAT ARE GONNA BE ALL THE PEOPLE YOU SEE HERE.

ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA BE IN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT.

ALL OF THE FUT, CURRENT AND FUTURE STUDENTS AT CASA GRANDE, SUCH AS MYSELF, WHO HAVE HAD GOOD AND BAD RUN-INS WITH SOME PEOPLE.

WHO ARE THE TYPES THAT, YOU KNOW, WANDER OFF CAMPUS DURING THOSE SORTS OF TIMES.

UM, AND ULTIMATELY, THE LOCAL FISH WILDLIFE IN THAT CREEK AREA, WHOM WE LIVE AND CONSIDER OUR NEIGHBORS JUST AS WELL AS WE WILL CONSIDER THE NEW DEVELOPMENT PEOPLE, OUR NEIGHBORS AS WELL.

SO IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO PASS THESE SETS OF SIGNATURES AROUND TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WITH THE, WITH THE QUESTION, WITH THE ASK THE EXPLORATION.

PLEASE LOOK OVER THESE SIGNATURES AND RECOGNIZE THAT EACH ONE OF THEM REPRESENTS A VOICE.

A VOICE THAT'S SAYING NO BRIDGE.

MAY I HELP HAND THIS OVER TO YOU OR SHOULD I HAND THIS OVER TO CLERK? THE CLERK? THANK YOU.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, AND THANK YOU MARIA DETO TO BE FOLLOWED BY NICOLA FRY.

DO YOU NEED MORE TIME? EXCUSE ME? DO YOU NEED MORE TIME BECAUSE YOU HAVE OH, I DON'T THINK SO.

UM, I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I WAS HERE ONCE BEFORE AND I WANTED TO SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

UM, I WANTED TO SPEAK TO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, JANICE, UM, CATER THOMPSON.

YOU MENTIONED SCHOENBERGER PARK GOING THROUGH THAT FOUR FOOT WALKWAY.

WHERE ARE THEY

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YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO IMPLEMENT THAT.

YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE SAFETY ISSUES THERE.

WE ALREADY HAVE THAT.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL? SO IT'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING THAT'S GONNA PROMOTE THIS BRIDGE IS NOT GONNA PROMOTE ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

AND THANK YOU, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERSHIPS FOR COMING OUT AND LOOKING AT OUR AREA.

IT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE WALK AROUND.

UM, WE HAVE OUR CITY ATTORNEY TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT LEGALLY MANY OF US DON'T KNOW.

MAYBE HE MIGHT WANNA COME OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY TOO, TO COME OUT AND LOOK.

IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE SEE OUR COMMUNITY.

I HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 32 YEARS.

I'M AN ORIGINAL HOMEOWNER, AND WE HAVE THE WILDLIFE THERE, AND WE ENJOY THEM AND WE EMBRACE THEM, AND WE TAKE CARE OF THEM.

AND I WOULD LIKE ALL OF YOU TO DO THE SAME.

NICOLA.

WOULD, DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? UM, I'M GOING TO ALLOW ANYBODY ELSE TO TAKE MY TIME.

YOU ALL KNOW HOW MUCH I LIKE TO TALK, BUT I AGREE WITH ALL OF THE, OKAY, WELL THAT'S KIND OF TALKING.

SO , UM, OUR NEXT SPEAKER'S, JESSICA MO MOSES, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UH, DOYLE HEATON.

HELLO, COUNSEL.

UM, FIRSTLY WITH MY PLANNING COMMISSION HAT ON, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF POINTS THAT I THINK GOT A LITTLE BIT MUDDLED IN THE QUESTION PERIOD, WHICH I WANTED TO UNDERSCORE.

THE FIRST IS THAT, AS NOTED IN CHAPTER TWO OF THE FINAL EIR DOCUMENT, WHICH IS THE RESPONSE TO COMMENTS, UM, THIS IS ON THE MASTER RESPONSE TO ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS PARKING.

I JUST WANTED TO STATE FOR ALL HERE THAT THIS IS, UH, DEVELOPMENT FOR 59 UNITS AND INCLUDES 178 TOTAL PARKING SPACES TO GIVE THOSE NUMBERS.

59 UNITS, 178 PARKING SPACES.

SECONDLY, UM, AGAIN, IN THAT RESPONSE DOCUMENT ON PAGE FIVE, UM, THIS IS ABOUT THAT, HOW THE BRIDGE REDUCES VMT.

I THINK THAT GOT A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING FOR US HERE IN THE ROOM.

UM, THE VMT REDUCTION IS CALCULABLE.

WHEN THERE IS A BRIDGE, IT JUST DOES NOT BRING IT ALL THE WAY BELOW THE LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE.

SO I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSCORE AGAIN, THE BRIDGE DOES BRING DOWN VMT, JUST NOT ALL THE WAY BELOW THE CITY'S DESIGNATION OF SIGNIFICANCE TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.

UM, OTHERWISE, JUST SPEAKING PERSONALLY AS AN EASTSIDER WHO LIVES ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE FROM THE CREEK CREEKWOOD SITE, I WOULD WELCOME ADDITIONAL WALKING PATHS.

UM, ESPECIALLY ONES THAT ARE PAID FOR BY DEVELOPERS, AND WOULD OFFER MORE TRANQUIL NATURAL OPTIONS, UM, THAT ARE OFF MAIN DRAGS LIKE ELI AND CASA GRANDE.

I DON'T THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, IN MY YEARS WALKING AROUND, TALKING TO MY MOM ON THE PHONE, AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, I ALWAYS HAVE TO QUICKLY WALK OFF ELI OR QUICKLY WALK OFF CASA GRANDE 'CAUSE SHE CAN'T HEAR ME BECAUSE THEY'RE SUCH LOUD MAIN DRAGS AND HAVING SOME NATURE TO WALK AROUND, WHICH THE NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID IS, IS QUITE LOVELY.

UM, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IN THAT AS WELL.

UH, DOYLE HEATON TO BE FOLLOWED BY STEVE FRA.

I, I'D LIKE STEVE FRAKE TO GO FIRST AND I'LL FOLLOW HIM IN.

HE'S OUR CIVIL ENGINEER.

OKAY, SURE.

STEVE FRA, PROJECT ENGINEER, UM, HEARD A LOT OF COMMENTS TONIGHT AND ON THE BRIDGE, THE NO BRIDGE OPTION, AND JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS THAT ARE TRUE HERE.

AND, AND WE FOLLOWED THE CITY'S, UH, DIRECTION, UH, FROM THE MCKENNA PROJECT OR, UH, CASA TO, UH, TO PUT IN THE BRIDGE AND DID EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DO ALL THE MITIGATION THAT WE COULD.

IT WAS BEEN VETTED MORE THAN THE GOLDEN GATE, UH, THROUGH OUTSIDE AGENCIES.

AND THAT TO, UH, TO DO AS LITTLE AS, AS, UH, IMPACTS AS POSSIBLE TO THE REPAIR AND HABITAT.

BUT THE BRIDGE DOES IS THE BIGGEST IMPACT TO THE RIPARIAN AREA.

NO BRIDGE.

THERE'S, THERE'S NO IMPACT WHATSOEVER.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD SUPPORT, OBVIOUSLY A NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVES, BUT DO REQUEST IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.

WE'D LIKE TO TRY TO MAKE THOSE FINDINGS TONIGHT, RECESS AND DO IT, AND NOT TO CONTINUE THIS.

IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG STRUGGLE, YOU KNOW, FOR US, AND WE'VE KIND OF REALLY RUN OUTTA TIME AND REALLY TO, WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT IF POSSIBLE.

PROPERTY OWNERS AND WE'VE BEEN ON A PROJECT FOR, UH, WE'RE IN OUR FOURTH YEAR NOW.

THANK YOU, DOLE HEATON, GOOD EVENING.

AS I SAID BEFORE, I'M ONE OF THE

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SO, UH, BASICALLY, UH, WE, UH, OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT THE NEW BRIDGE, AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM, UH, WELL OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH PETITIONS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO, UH, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WOULD REQUEST IS THAT, UH, WE, WE'VE BEEN POSTPONED A COUPLE OF TIMES FOR THIS HEARING FOR VARIOUS REASONS.

OBVIOUSLY, WE SPENT TWO YEARS AT SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN EIR, WHICH, UH, HAS, YOU KNOW, PUT US WAY BEHIND OUR SCHEDULES.

OUR ORIGINAL SCHEDULE WAS THAT WE, WE WOULD HAVE HOMEOWNERS LIVING IN CREEKWOOD NOW AND NOT EXPECTING TO TAKE FOUR YEARS.

WE'VE HAD TO PURCHASE ONE OF THE PROPERTIES, UH, BECAUSE OUR CONTRACTS RUN OUT.

WE'RE ALSO DEALING WITH, UH, THE LAST, UH, OWNER WHO WANTS TO RETAIN HIS HOUSE.

SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UH, TIME AND, UM, THINGS.

SO TO, THE MAIN THING WE WANT TO DO TONIGHT IS WE WANT THIS BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE DELAYS.

WE WANT THIS SETTLED TONIGHT.

UH, WE DON'T WANNA RECESS AND COME BACK NEXT YEAR.

SO IF WE, IF IT TAKES US TO HAVE A SPECIAL RECESS OR WHATEVER WE, WE ASK YOU DO IT.

BUT TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS APPROVED, UH, UH, ONCE AND FOR ALL.

AND WE OBVIOUSLY DO NOT WANT TO DO THE BRIDGE.

UH, WE DO NOT WANT TO DO THE BRIDGE, AS WE'VE HEARD FROM FOR THE LAST HOUR.

AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

AND ALSO, WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE WALKED IT OUT THERE.

WE'VE DONE IT OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.

SO ANYWAY, AND IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.

I AM GONNA SAY IT'S OKAY.

PARDON? YOU NOT NEEDING TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

NO, I ALREADY SAID I AGREE WITH THOSE PAST COMMENTS.

UH, THAT CLOSES THE PUBLIC, UH, HEARING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON, UH, THE, UM, DOCUMENT ON THE ITEM TONIGHT, AND IT BRINGS IT BACK UP TO COUNCIL.

AND I'D LIKE TO KIND OF PORTION THE CONVERSATION IN TWO WAYS HERE.

THE BRIDGE SEEMS TO HAVE DOMINATED THE, UM, CONVERSATION.

IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS, UH, WANTS TO WEIGH IN ON THE BALANCE OF THE PROJECT, UH, EIR BEFORE WE HAVE CONVERSATION RELATIVE TO BRIDGE? I'M NOT SEEING THAT.

AND THEN, UM, CONVERSATION ON THE BRIDGE.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE.

YEAH, I'LL START.

UM, SO A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THE COUNCIL GAVE DIRECTION TO, TO PUT A BRIDGE IN HERE BECAUSE, UM, AS WAS MENTIONED, UM, CONNECTIVITY AS A PRINCIPLE IS GOOD PLANNING.

AND THAT IS, UM, WHY IT'S THERE.

I HEAR THE, THE COMMUNITY HERE OPPOSING IT.

AND, UM, I RESPECT YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOUR POSITIONS.

UM, BUT THE, THE FLAWS IN THE EIR IS NOT A FLAW.

UM, WHAT WE'RE CALLING A FLAW IN THE EIR IS NOT AN ACTUAL FLAW IN THE EIR.

UM, IT'S CALLED GOOD PLANNING.

LIKE CONNECTIVITY IS GOOD PLANNING.

UM, AND, UM, THE, THE PATH THAT IS CONNECTING TO MAY NOT BE THE MOST, UM, WELL KEPT PATH TODAY.

UM, PART OF THE REASON WHY IT MIGHT NOT BE IN, UH, AS WELL TRAVELED IS BECAUSE OF A LACK OF CONNECTIVITY.

UM, SO, UM, THE, THE COMMENTS ABOUT LAKEVILLE, THERE'S, UM, AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT'S BEING WORKED ON RIGHT NOW THAT'S ACTUALLY LOOKING AT HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE UNDER LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY.

UM, THERE IS, UM, AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT THAT I'M SITTING AT, AND I JUST READ THE, UM, UH, ACTION PLAN FOR IT.

AND IT TALKS ALL ABOUT CONNECTIVITY AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.

AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS TAKEN LIGHTLY.

UM, IT'S NOT SO, AND IT'S NOT THAT LIKE, YOU KNOW, WITH RESPECT TO COUNCIL MEMBER SCHIBS, IT'S, UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A SERIES OF SMALL DECISIONS THAT MAKE, THAT MAKE CHANGES.

UM, I LIVE ON THE END OF A CUL-DE-SAC, UM, OVER HERE.

UM, AND I WISH, LIKE HECK I DIDN'T BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO DOWN MY STREET AND BACK UP ANOTHER STREET.

UM, AND THERE'S CERTAIN PEOPLE, I'M SURE THAT LIKE THE PRIVACY AND OF LIVING ON THAT CUL-DE-SAC, I WISH THAT IT HAD CONNECTIVITY TO THE PARK, EVEN IF THAT MEANS MORE PEOPLE WALKING DOWN MY STREET.

UM, THAT'S, AGAIN, THAT'S LIKE GOOD PLANNING.

UM, THAT'S WHAT IT'S WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.

UM, I APPRECIATE THE COMMENT ABOUT GETTING OFF OF ROADS AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO GET OFF ROADS.

THAT'S WHAT THIS

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PATH IS FOR.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I DEFINITELY HEAR THE, AND, AND SYMPATHIZE WITH THE APPLICANTS ON THIS AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT YOU'VE TAKEN.

I DEFINITELY WANNA WRAP THIS UP TONIGHT.

UM, I'M NOT GOING TO DIE ON THE HILL OF A BRIDGE, BUT I SUPPORT THE BRIDGE.

I THINK IT'S, UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT LONG TERM WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO GO AS A CITY, UM, CONNECTIVITY AS A PRINCIPLE, AS A PUBLIC POLICY, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO, UM, HEED LIKE EMBRACE THAT, UM, AS A COUNCIL, EVEN IF IT MEANS TOUGH DECISIONS LIKE THIS.

UM, SO THAT'S WHERE I STAND ON THE BRIDGE.

OH, I'LL JUMP IN A LITTLE BIT TOO.

I, I, I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND THE VISION OF, OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.

UH, I'VE BIKED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND BY THE WAY, NEIGHBORS, I THINK ALL YOUR COUNCIL LOOKS AT ALL YOUR PROJECTS CAREFULLY.

WE DON'T ALWAYS SAY I WALK THERE, I BIKE THERE, BUT WE INVESTIGATE CAREFULLY.

WE'VE BEEN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE KNOW WHAT, UH, NOT AS WELL AS YOU, BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE.

UM, I SUPPORT THE VISION OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND, AND, UH, THE CLIMATE GOALS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE FROM IT.

AND, UH, I SUPPORT STAFF AND, AND PAST COUNCIL, WHICH ACTUALLY I THINK I WAS PART OF IT BOTH AT PLANNING AND AT COUNCIL, UM, IN TRYING TO GET THE NEXT THING AND TRYING TO HAVE THE NEXT THING.

BUT I DO THINK THAT WE ALWAYS TAKE AN OPTIMISTIC AND MAYBE AGGRESSIVE VIEW AT CONNECTION OPPORTUNITIES.

NOT ALL OF THEM HAVE THE RETURN WE EXPECT.

I THINK WHEN, UH, THE DISTANCES SUCH AS, UH, ELI TO SAR TORI IS SPLIT IN HALF THE MAGNITUDE BECOMES MUCH SMALLER OF THE BENEFIT OF THE BRIDGE.

AND WE NEED TO LOOK WITH CRITICAL EYE AS TO WHAT WE GAIN AND WHAT WE, WHAT WE LOSE ON THINGS.

SO I, UM, I WOULD BE INCLINED TO SAY THAT THE ER SHOULD GO FORWARD TONIGHT WITHOUT THE BRIDGE AND LOOKING TO FIND FINDINGS FOR THAT.

AND, AND ANYONE ELSE? UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALEY.

YEAH, I, I, I THINK IN THIS SITUATION, THE, UH, THE BRIDGE IS KIND OF A SOLUTION LOOKING FOR A PROBLEM.

AND, UH, I THINK FOR ALL THE REASONS THE NEIGHBORS HAVE ARTICULATED, UM, THIS IS ONE WE CAN PASS ON WITHOUT DOING GREAT DAMAGE TO BROADER PRINCIPLES IN THE COMMUNITY.

UM, SO I'LL STOP THERE.

THANKS COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, AND THANK YOU.

UM, THANK YOU FOR CORRECTING MY MISTAKES IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

UM, IS CREEKWOOD GONNA HAVE AN HOA, WE DON'T KNOW.

UM, I ASSUMING THAT IT MUST BE THE LEDS THAT ARE IN CHARGE OF KEEPING AND MAINTAINING, UM, THE OTHER SIDE AND THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, AND THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED, UM, FOR THE FUTURE.

I THINK THAT I WAS THINKING AHEAD FOR HAVING THE BRIDGE PUT IN FOR WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, THE CONNECTIVITY FOR THE FUTURE WHEN THOSE PATHS GET CLEANED UP, BECAUSE IT, WE ALL KNOW THAT IF YOU DON'T BUILD IT TODAY, THE PRICE JUST DOUBLES.

BUT TONIGHT TO GET THE THANKS RUNNING, I THINK WE NEED TO RECESS AND HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY WORK ON THE LANGUAGE FOR, UM, A NO BRIDGE, UH, EIR, SO THAT WE CAN VOTE ON IT THIS EVENING AND LET THESE NEIGHBORS GO HOME.

COUNCIL MEMBER, POKAY, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? UM, UH, NO, I TEND TO AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID.

AND, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER AND EVERYBODY GOOD DOWN HERE.

I JUST WANNA MAKE A COMMENT THAT I'VE BEEN OUT TO THE SITE PLEASE MANY TIMES.

UM, JUST TO BE CLEAR, IT'S NOT AN ELIMINATE, WE NEED TO LEAVE THE OPTIONS THAT ARE ALREADY ASSESSED IN THE EIRS AS THE MAYOR'S COMMENTS JUST INDICATED, IT'S A QUESTION OF CHANGING THE, UM, FINDINGS SO THAT THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE AND RIGHT.

AND I WAS OUT THIS WEEKEND ALSO, SO I HAVE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME THERE.

I JUST, MAYBE NOBODY SAW ME.

IT WAS IMPRESSIVE TO SEE THE CREEK THIS WEEKEND TOO.

, THAT WAS SOMETHING, YEAH.

UM, ANY, SO, UM, I THINK WE HAVE SORT OF A STRAW POLL HERE, UH, INFORMALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT, UH, IS THERE A CALL FOR A FORMAL STRAW POLL OR DO WE, UM, DO YOU WANT TO COUNCIL MEMBER VICE, DO YOU WANNA WEIGH IN ON, ON YOUR IDEAS OF THE BRIDGE? OKAY.

SO I THINK THE PROPOSAL IS A, A QUICK, HOPEFULLY A QUICK RECESS, SOME RECALIBRATION OF THE TEXT, UH, TO INCLUDE A NO BRIDGE OPTION, UM, UM, ON THIS.

UM, AND THEN, UH, BRING IT BACK TO US SO WE CAN VOTE ON IT, UH, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

SO I THINK, I THINK WE'RE ASKING FOR FINDINGS THAT SUPPORT THE NO BRIDGE OPTION.

AND, UM, IS 10 MINUTES THE RIGHT NUMBER? AND, AND WE'LL, WE'LL SAY 10 15.

YEAH, WE'LL GIVE IT A GO IN 10.

WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD WORKING, UM, UH, AT THIS POINT, AND I THINK WE JUST WANT CITY ATTORNEY'S EYES ON IT AND, UH, YEAH, WE CAN RIGHT.

STAFF HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT.

I'M LOOKING AT IT NOW.

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AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IN TERMS OF THE STRALL, THAT A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL WANTS US TO ACCOMPLISH THAT FOR THE REST POLL.

CORRECT.

AND THAT WILL LEAD THE LATITUDE FOR, UH, PLANNING TO PLANNING COMMISSION TO SORT OUT ALL THE DETAILS OF THE PROJECT AS THE PROJECT ARRIVES THERE.

SO I'M GONNA ASK THE CITY CLERKS AT THE, UH, RECESS CLOCK FOR 10 MINUTES, AND, UH, WE'LL BE BACK AT THAT TIME.

THE MEETING IS BROUGHT BACK TO ORDER AT THIS TIME.

IS EVERYONE IN THEIR SEATS? D OKAY.

UM, AT COUNCIL'S DIRECTION? YEAH.

YOU GOOD? OH, YES, WE ARE GOOD.

UM, SO WE ARE BACK IN SESSION AND SEATED AND, UH, HAVE WE COME UP WITH FINDINGS OR, UH, RESOLUTION MODIFICATIONS TO SHARE? OKAY.

UH, I AM GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN AND WALK THROUGH THE MODIFIED FINDINGS.

UH, SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS, UH, MODIFIED EXHIBIT A TO ATTACHMENT ONE, AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THE, UH, THE, AM I SHARING? NOT YET.

HERE WE GO.

UM, AND BLOWING IT UP.

AND HOW ARE WE LOOKING? ANYBODY CAN READ IT A LITTLE MORE IF YOU COULD.

UH, SO THE TEXT THAT'S IN PLAIN, UH, FORMATTING IS A VERBATIM FROM THE FINDINGS AS THEY ARE.

SO, UM, THIS IS JUST SO EVERYONE CAN GET ORIENTED.

WE'RE SKIPPING RIGHT TO, UH, SECTION SIX.

AND THIS IS THE FINDING REGARDING THE PROJECT ALTERNATIVES, WHICH, UM, IS THE, THE TEE UP LANGUAGE HERE.

AND THEN DOWN HERE, THIS PARAGRAPH AT THE BOTTOM HAS BEEN MODIFIED TO CLARIFY, UM, THAT THE CITY FINDS THAT THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IS THE ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERRED AND, UM, AND FINDS THE OTHER TWO IN FEASIBLE.

UH, AND THEN THE, UH, FURTHER DOWN IN THAT SECTION, THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE FINDINGS.

THIS AGAIN, UH, NON FORMATTED IS, UH, VERBATIM FROM, UH, EXHIBIT A AS IT IS.

AND THEN AS WE GET INTO HERE, WE'VE MODIFIED THE FINDINGS AT, UH, COUNSEL'S DIRECTION TO IDENTIFY THE NO BRIDGE AS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE.

UM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO PAUSE HERE AND MAKE, MAKE SURE THAT COUNSEL, UM, READS THESE TWO BULLETS AND FULLY AGREES, UM, WITH THE INTENT BEHIND THESE AND THAT THAT IS SUPPORTIVE OF THOSE.

CAN WHO ME, FINDINGS? I'M TRYING NOT TO MOVE, BUT I'M TRYING TO GET BOTH OF THEM HERE.

UM, OKAY.

SO I'LL LEAVE, I'LL PAUSE THERE.

EXCUSE ME.

SORRY.

UM, THAT'S A LITTLE DIZZYING.

UM, CAN WE EITHER PRINT THAT ONE PAGE FOR OUR REVIEW OR JUST LET US READ IT ON THE SCREEN FOR A MINUTE? YEAH, TAKE, TAKE A BREATH FOR A MINUTE.

AND I THINK, DO YOU WANT ME TO READ IT OUT LOUD? NO.

UM, WE HAVE A REQUEST.

WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR PRINT.

ARE WE ACCESSIBLE TO A PRINTER? YOU HAVE TO.

IS IT, IS THIS USABLE FOR YOU OR YOU WANT YEAH.

IS COUNCIL READY FOR ME TO SCROLL DOWN TO THE NEXT SECTION? YEP.

HE NEEDS ACCESS.

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ARE WE ALSO, UM, STILL GOING PRINT OUT? OH, I SEE.

THAT'S GOOD.

A LITTLE FAR THERE.

BRING THAT UP A LITTLE BIT.

THE BULLET SO WE SEE ALL OF THE BULLET.

I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND SCROLL DOWN TO THE NEXT BULLET.

UM, SO THE FINAL, UH, ITEMS ARE STRIKE STRUCK THROUGH FROM THE PRIOR, UH, DRAFT, SO THERE'S NO FURTHER TEXT HERE.

UM, SO I'M GONNA GO ONTO THE NEXT PAGE.

AND THIS, UH, SECTION IS THE STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS.

UH, AGAIN, THE PLAIN TEXT IS, UM, NOT MODIFIED, AND THE RED LINE SHOWS THE, THE CHANGE.

SO WE'RE CLARIFYING HERE THAT, UM, WE ARE, UH, IDENTIFIED A PREFERENCE FOR THE NO BRIDGE, UH, PROJECT.

AND SO ON THAT FINAL BULLET, WE'VE STRUCK OUT THE BENEFIT OF THE BRIDGE BECAUSE THAT IS NOW NO LONGER A BENEFIT.

AND I'LL PAUSE THERE.

UH, SO THAT'S PRETTY MINOR MODIFICATIONS ON THAT.

SO I CAN SCROLL TO THE NEXT PAGE.

UH, AND THIS IS THAT FINAL, UM, PARAGRAPH THAT'S AGAIN, JUST CLARIFYING THAT THE, UH, PREFERRED PROJECT IS NOW THE NO BRIDGE.

CAN I, WHILE WE'RE, UM, WAITING FOR PRINTED COPIES, WE SH WE SHOULD ENTERTAIN THE COUNCIL COMMENTS ON, ON THESE.

SO COUNCIL MEMBER BARNICLE, ARE WE, I WAS, UH, GOING TO THANK OUR STAFF FOR IMPLEMENTING COUNCIL DIRECTION, THANK THE APPLICANT FOR, UH, FOLLOWING COUNSEL DIRECTION ON THIS.

UM, AND APOLOGIZE FOR THE MISDIRECTION THAT CAME FROM PRIOR, UM, PRIOR STUFF TO BOTH, UH, STAFF AND THE APPLICANT.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL MOVE THE ITEM, SORRY, ONE OTHER ITEM I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET IN HERE, UH, IS A MODIFICATION TO THE RESOLUTION ITSELF, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS CHANGE.

UH, AND SO I'VE PULLED THAT UP NOW ON THE PAGE AND THIS IS IN THE, UH, THIS IS YOUR RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU, THIS IS, UH, ATTACHMENT ONE TO YOUR STAFF REPORT.

AND WE'VE ADDED TWO, THESE TWO BULLETS, UH, THESE TWO RECITALS HERE, JUST, UM, DOCUMENTING WHAT OCCURRED THIS EVENING, THE PREFERENCE FOR THE NO BRIDGE, THAT THE NO BRIDGE ALTERNATIVE IS ADEQUATELY CAPTURED IN THE EIR.

AND, UH, THAT THAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERRED AND THAT THE EXHIBIT A THAT WE JUST LOOKED AT HAS BEEN MODIFIED ACCORDINGLY.

GREAT.

AND JUST, UH, A MOMENT TO GET OUR EYES AROUND THE PAPER VERSION AS WELL.

WITH THAT, I WILL MOVE THE ITEM.

YEAH, WE, WE, UM, WE'VE REQUESTED STAFF PRINT OUT HARD COPIES AND SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA WAIT AND, AND SEE THOSE I BELIEVE SHORTLY, AND THAT'S WHEN WE'LL, UH, TAKE THE MOTION.

AND YES, WE ALL APPRECIATE, UH, THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PATIENCE AND APPLICANT'S PARTICIPATION IN PATIENCE.

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IS IS THE FIRST HIGHLIGHTED SECTION ON THE FRONT, THE FIRST PAGE, IS THAT CORRECT? IS THIS THING DRAMATICALLY? UH, THIRD PARAGRAPH, THE FAMILY PLACE, LET ME READ THAT OUT LOUD.

I'LL READ THAT SENTENCE.

NO, I THINK IT NEEDS A LITTLE HELP.

THA, UM, IT IS A LEGAL, YES.

GOOD.

I WAS TRYING TO READ IT.

UM, IF YOU WOULD SHOW THE REVISED ON SHARED SCREEN.

APOLOGIES.

WE HAVE, UH, MULTIPLE FOLKS IN HERE, MAKING EDITS IN REAL TIME AND, UH, WHILE THAT'S A GREAT TOOL, SOMETIMES IT'S WORKING, WORKING AGAINST US.

I'M SHARING MY SCREEN TO SHOW HOW THAT LANDED.

I THINK, UM, WE HAVE A, A MOTION BY BARNACLE AND, UM, LOOKING FOR A SECOND AND A SECOND BY NOW.

AND, UH, NO MORE CONVERSATION THEN, UH, I'D LIKE TO HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON APPROVAL OF THAT RESOLUTION.

AND, UH, THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE FOR THIS, UH, UM, ENDEAVOR TONIGHT AND I THANK THE APPLICANT AND WITH THAT, WE ARE ADJOURNED FOR THE EVENING.