[CALL TO ORDER]
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REGULAR MEETING OF THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
I'M HEARING A LITTLE ECHO, BUT I THINK WE CAN GET THROUGH IT.
SO I WILL CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
DEB, IS THAT YOUR MACHINE? IT'S, AND I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO, CAN YOU MUTE IT? TURN OFF YOUR MICROPHONE.
WELL, LET'S CALL TO ORDER AND LET'S SEE IF WE CAN, UM, GET THIS FIGURED OUT.
SO, I'LL CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
AND LET'S JUST START WITH A ROLL CALL VOTE OR A ROLL CALL FOR THE MEETING.
AND I'LL TRY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH IT.
UH, WELL, AND WE HAVE A MEMBER WHO'S GONNA PROVIDE SOME IT SUPPORT.
UH, SO WE'LL MOVE STRAIGHT TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTERESTS THAT ARE WITHIN THE TREE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
WE DO NOT HAVE ANYONE IN ATTENDANCE, SO I'M GONNA SAFELY ASSUME WE DO NOT HAVE IN-PERSON PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, BUT CATHERINE, DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? WE DID NOT.
WELL THEN LET'S GIVE OURSELF A BRIEF COUPLE MINUTE PAUSE, BECAUSE DEB IS OUR PRESENTER, AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO OUR 2025 BLUEPRINT GOALS.
HELLO? I STILL HEAR A LITTLE BIT OF AN ECHO.
ARE WE SURE? IT'S IT'S GREEN? YEAH.
SO THE ONLY OTHER SUGGESTION I, HOW ABOUT NOW? IT'S STILL COMING OUT.
MAYBE GO OUT OF IT AND GO BACK IN.
ARE THE SPEAKERS IN THE, IT'S A SPEAKER.
WANNA GO THAT ROUTE? YOU KNOW WHAT? IT MIGHT BE THE, IS THAT BETTER NOW? HELLO? WELL, I LEFT ZOOM.
OH, I'M NOT IN THE ZOOM ANYMORE THEN MAYBE IT WAS YOU, HUH? IT WAS DEFINITELY ME.
MY COMPUTER WAS THE ONE THAT WAS PLAYING.
NO, THANK YOU FOR ANYONE WATCHING LIVE OR THIS RECORDING BEARING WITH US AS WE FIGURE OUT OUR TECHNICAL ISSUES SO WE CAN MOVE INTO WHAT WILL BE A GREAT PRESENTATION.
SORRY, COULD YOU MAKE IT DO PRESENTATION MODE? I, YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD IT THERE.
IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT, THERE WAS A FULL SCREEN MODE THAT MIGHT AT THE BOTTOM, THE BOTTOMMOST OPTION THAT WORKS FURTHER.
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DO SORRY ABOUT ALL, ALL OF THAT.[PRESENTATIONS]
EVERYONE.I'M THE CITY'S NEW CLIMATE ACTION MANAGER.
AND, UM, I'M HERE TO, TO TALK TO YOU ALL TODAY ABOUT, UH, THE BLUEPRINT.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, YOU'VE ALL SEEN IT, BUT NOW I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, UH, BASICALLY THE ROLLOUT OF IT.
UH, I LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS THE PIECE WHERE WE ARE CLIMATE READY.
THIS IS, IT'S A BIG GOAL WE'RE ABOUT TO UNDERTAKE.
UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY BEEN UNDERTAKING AS ONE OF THE KEY PIECES I LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT TO EVERYONE.
UM, BUT IT REALLY IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, AS IT RELATES TO YOU ALL, IN PARTICULAR, RESTORING BALANCE IN THE, UH, ECOSYSTEM.
IT HAS AN ECONOMIC STABILITY ELEMENT AS IT RELATES TO CLIMATE DISASTERS THAT ARE COMING, UH, AND ALL WITH THE GOAL OF, UM, CARBON NEUTRALITY.
YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS.
I BORROWED THIS FROM PREVIOUS, UM, PRESENTATIONS.
BUT, UM, REALLY JUST, IT'S MY REMINDER TO EVERYONE THAT THIS IS BASICALLY OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN.
UM, AND, UH, THAT IT'S A SHARED VISION, UH, THAT WE ARE ALL, UH, GONNA BE OPERATING UNDER.
AND IT DOESN'T JUST MEAN, UH, THE CITY.
IT DOESN'T MEAN, UM, UH, JUST THE CITY STAFF OR JUST THE, THE COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES AND BOARDS.
IT'S, OUR WHOLE CITY IS GONNA BE ENGAGED IN THIS, UH, SHARED VISION FOR, UH, PREPARING FOR WHAT IS ALREADY HERE AS WE'RE SEEING IN TERMS OF CLIMATE EMERGENCIES HAPPENING.
UM, UH, BUT JUST HOW WE ARE GONNA WORK, UH, TO, UH, IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, IT BUILDS OFF OUR COUNCIL PRIORITIES, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION, UH, UH, WORK, ALL OF OUR EXISTING PLANS AND, UH, UPCOMING PROGRAM PLANS THAT WE HAVE COMING UP.
UH, THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY FRAMEWORK, THE GENERAL PLAN, ALL THAT TYPE OF STUFF.
AS WE ALL, UM, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE OF, UH, IT INCORPORATES SOME NEW AND INNOVATIVE PRACTICES.
IT'S GONNA BE A SHORT RANGE PLAN.
THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY PIECES.
ITS OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT OF BUSINESS AS USUAL AND REALLY, UM, TAKE SOME BIG ACTIONS.
UM, AND THE FINAL DRAFT WAS APPROVED IN, UH, NOVEMBER.
UH, SO THIS IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, NOVEMBER WAS THE HO JUST AS THE HOLIDAYS WERE STARTING.
SO, UH, THIS IS WHY I AM COMING TO YOU ALL NOW.
I'M GOING TO ALL THE CCBS TO ENGAGE THEM.
UH, AND THEN, UM, ONE PIECE TO, TO NOTE AS I, UM, JUST KIND OF SETTING, THIS IS ALL FOUNDATION SETTING.
UH, THE BLUEPRINT, OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLAN IS REALLY ABOUT THE MITIGATION ELEMENTS.
UM, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THE GENERAL PLAN WILL STILL COVER THE ADAPTATION ELEMENTS, UH, BUT THE TWO WORK HAND, HAND IN HAND AS, AS WE KNOW.
BUT, UM, THAT'S JUST ONE THING.
I JUST TRY TO REMIND, UM, EVERYONE THAT THESE DOCUMENTS DO WORK, UH, UH, TOGETHER SIMULTANEOUSLY.
UH, THIS IS MY, UH, THIS IS IN THE BLUEPRINT.
IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE ONES TO SHOW THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, BUSINESS AS USUAL IS WHAT, UH, WE ARE OPERATING UNDER CURRENTLY.
IT IS JUST, IF WE TAKE NO ACTIONS, WHAT TENDS TO HAPPEN AS IT RELATES TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, WHAT ADJUSTED LOOKS LIKE WHEN THE STATE COMES IN, OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR LOCAL LAWS COME INTO PLACE.
WE HAVE ADJUSTED BUSINESS AS USUAL.
THEN WE HAVE OUR CLIMATE PLAN THAT IS AMBITIOUS.
BUT AS WE ARE ALL SEEING AS CLIMATE, UM, EMERGENCIES ARE HAPPENING IN OUR STATE CURRENTLY IN LA THAT IS A STEP UP FIRE EMERGENCY THAT WE ALREADY KNOW HAS HAPPENED HERE.
WE KNOW THAT EXPERIENCE DIRECTLY.
WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO DO THE, WHAT DOES IT TAKE, UH, IS GONNA BE REALLY GETTING OUTTA BUSINESS AS USUAL AND, AND REALLY EMBRACING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND ACT.
AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE TO GET TO THAT TARGET GOAL.
AND SO, THIS IS MY FAVORITE TERM TO SAY.
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK.
UH, AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE, UH, IT REALLY IS, AS I AS I STARTED, UM, THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE CITY'S JOB TO DO THIS.
THIS ISN'T ONE PERSON'S JOB TO DO.
THIS IS, IT'S NOT MY ONLY JOB WITHIN THE CITY MANAGER'S, UH, UH, OFFICE, WHICH I AM HOUSED IN.
I WORK WITH MY TEAM IS PATRICK CARTER, WHO IS THE ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER.
AND WE HAVE A MANAGEMENT ANALYST.
THE THREE OF US ARE THE TEAM THAT ARE GOING OUT AND SETTING UP ALL THESE OTHER TEAMS. UH, AND THAT INCLUDES OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM THAT'S GONNA BE WORKING THROUGH THE BLUEPRINTS.
IT'S OUR, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE COORDINATORS WITHIN THE CITY TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY.
AND THIS IS NOT WITH, IT'S NOT IN SILOS.
THIS IS CROSS PARTNER, UH, COLLABORATION.
UM, THIS IS WHERE THE CCBS, WHICH, UM, YOU ARE ONE, ONE OF OUR COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS.
YOU ARE THE CONDUIT TO THE PUBLIC, IS HOW I SEE, UM, THE CCBS, WHICH IS WHY THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT
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I'M DOING, IS I'M ENROLLING OUR COMMUNITY INTO ACTION.UH, AND THEN OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UH, WORKING WITH ALL OF THEM TO GET EVERYONE TO SEE WHERE THEY FIT INTO, UH, THE BLUEPRINT IN TERMS OF ACTION.
'CAUSE NOW WE'VE PLANNED AND NOW IT'S TIME TO DO.
UH, I CALL THIS AN ACTION CYCLE.
UH, WE HAVE ANNUAL CLIMATE GOALS.
UH, WE MAP AND MATCH THE ACTIONS TO WHAT WE HAVE, UH, TO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO CREATE A POLICY, A PROGRAM GO OUT FOR FUNDING.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO THEN SHARE AND MONITOR THE OUTCOMES.
UH, AND THEN WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR, UH, AS WE GET TO 2030.
AND SO, THIS IS WHERE THE CITY PRIORITIES ARE, AGAIN, THAT STAFFING, BUILDING OUT TEAMS TO REALLY WORK ON, UM, UH, THE ACTIONS.
THE ACTIONS ARE NOT GONNA BE DONE, UH, IN SILOS OR ACROSS TEAM COLLABORATIONS.
AGAIN, TO JUST KEEP EMPHASIZING THAT, THAT IT'S, UM, UH, IT REALLY DOES HELP WHEN WE ALL HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THE ANALOGY OF THE VILLAGE THAT, UH, WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
SO THIS IS THE INTERNAL PIECE THAT IS, UM, ROLLING OUT.
WE'RE GONNA MONITOR AND TRACK, UH, THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND THE, UH, BLUEPRINT, UH, MONITORING, UH, OF, OF ACTIONS, HOW MANY ACTIONS WE'RE HITTING EVERY YEAR.
UH, WE'LL BE EDUCATING, UH, THE INTERNAL STAFF THROUGH LUNCH AND LEARNS.
WE, I'M WORKING ON A EARTH DAY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY.
UH, WE HAVE THE CLIMATE ACTION ROUNDTABLES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN EXISTENCE.
THAT, AGAIN, THAT'S A PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY TO, UH, UH, ENGAGE THE LARGER COMMUNITY AROUND CLIMATE ACTION.
AND THEN AGAIN, THERE IT IS THE CCB ENGAGEMENT.
AND I'LL GO INTO DETAIL A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IN A MINUTE.
SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE UP, AND THERE'S, THESE ARE ONE OF MANY, BUT AS YOU KNOW, THE GENERAL PLAN IS GOING THROUGH ITS UPDATE.
SO THAT IS, UH, A PRIORITY THAT'S HAPPENING THIS YEAR.
WE HAVE THE EV FEET, FLEET ELECTRO ELECTRIFICATION HAPPENING, UH, FOR THE CITY FLEET AND THE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE IS WHAT WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON.
WE HAVE OUR URBAN FORESTRY PLAN THAT'LL BE HAPPENING THIS YEAR.
UH, AND THEN A PROJECT THAT I'M ACTIVELY WORKING ON RIGHT NOW WITH, UM, THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY IS THE, A SCHOOL ZONE RESILIENCE AND MOBILITY HUB.
UH, THAT IS BACK TO DIRECTLY RELATED TO WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING, AND THERE'S MANY MORE.
I HAVE A WHOLE TRACKING SHEET THAT I CAN SORT BY YEAR, I COULD TELL YOU WHAT ACTIONS.
IT'S, IT'S, AGAIN, THIS IS A, A MULTI-PRONGED.
IT'S, IT'S A CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK, IS WHAT I CALL IT.
WE'RE GONNA WORK TOGETHER AND NETWORK AND BUILD OFF OF WHAT OUR SKILLS AND RESOURCES, WHAT WE HAVE, AND THEN WE GO AND FIND WHAT WE NEED.
UH, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION IS THE COMMISSION THAT I WORK WITH MOST CLOSELY.
THEY HAVE, UM, UH, MODELING AFTER WHAT, UM, ALL THE CCBS DO.
BUT I, UH, WORKED WITH CINDY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW YOU ALL WORK.
UH, THEY'VE DEVELOPED, UH, UH, ACTION, UH, SORRY, UH, AD HOCS THAT ARE REALLY WORKING ON VERY SIMILAR TO HOW YOU ALL DO.
THEY'RE BROKEN OUT INTO, IN THIS CASE, THEY'RE BROKEN OUT BY, UH, THE CORNERSTONE ACTIONS AND REALLY LOOKING AT HOW THEY ADDRESS THOSE CORNERSTONES.
UH, THERE'S ONE AD HOC THAT'S WORKING ON INTEGRATING STREET TREES, UH, INTO GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ON, AS IT RELATES TO ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S WHERE THERE IS A LARGER COLLABORATION HAPPENING WITH SCTA TO HELP LAY OUT A TEMPLATE FOR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE TO ACTUALLY DO.
AND WE'RE WORKING WITH PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS AND ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS INTERNALLY.
UM, THE, THERE'S A WASTE ONE THAT'S GONNA BE, UH, AND DOING A, UH, DISPOSABLE FOOD WEAR ORDINANCE.
THE ENERGY AD HOC IS, UM, ONE OF THE SIMPLEST THINGS WE ALL CAN DO.
UM, THE CITY IS ALREADY ENROLLED IN THIS, AND EACH INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLD, UM, CAN DO, UM, IS ENROLL IN THE EVERGREEN PROGRAM AT SONOMA CLEAN POWER.
IT MAKES IT, UM, IT'S A ZERO CARBON, UH, UH, PROGRAM THAT IS A SLIGHT INCREASE ON BILLS THAT ALLOWS YOUR ENERGY TO COME FROM, UH, GEOTHERMAL PRIMARILY, AND ALL THE OTHER ENERGY SOURCES THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO, UM, UH, OFFER US.
UH, WE HAVE A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN THAT I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY AWARE OF, UH, WHICH ARE NOT CAMPAIGN, SORRY, UH, EVENT, UH, WHICH IS FUTURE FEST.
AND THAT IS, AGAIN, ANOTHER COLLABORATION WITH PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS, UH, THE CITY AND COOL PETALUMA WHERE, UH, THEY'RE DOING THEIR EXPO.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE WORKSHOPS, AND I THINK YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT LATER ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS INVOLVED IN.
FOR THIS, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION IS GOING TO BE DOING WORKSHOPS FOR THE PUBLIC, UH, TO EDUCATE ON VARIOUS ELEMENTS AS IT RELATES TO ACTION FOR THE PUBLIC TO DO, UH, AS IT RELATES TO THE 2025 GOALS FOR THE BLUEPRINT.
UH, AND THIS IS WHERE I CALL IT, AND THIS IS THE CALL TO ACTION
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TO YOU ALL WHERE I COME TO YOU.UH, I'VE OUTLINED THE 2025, UH, BY 2026, BUT IT'S SIMPLER JUST TO SAY THIS YEAR'S GOALS.
UH, YOU ALREADY HAVE MOST OF THEM, UH, IN PROGRESS, WHICH IS THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN IS IN PROGRESS.
YOUR COMMUNITY-BASED TREE PLANTING OBVIOUSLY IS ONGOING WITH ALL OF THE WORK THAT RELIEF IS DOING.
UH, THE REVISED TREE ORDINANCE, UH, IS COMING UP.
UH, AND THIS IS WHERE STREET TREES COME IN.
UH, THIS ONE FITS REALLY, YOU KNOW, UM, THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE WORKING ON THIS REALLY DIRECTLY AFFECTS HOW WE CAN, UH, CHANGE THE, THE PROGRAM THAT I'M WORKING ON WITH SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY AND THE PUBLIC WORKS IS AROUND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
UH, AND WE'LL BE WORKING ON TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE BARRIERS AND REALLY WORK THROUGH WHAT IT IS TO DO, UH, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND SCHOOLS SO THAT KIDS CAN WALK AND BIKE, CARPOOL, TAKE TRANSIT, AND THEN LAST CHOICE IF IT IS A CARD WITH JUST THEIR FAMILY,
AND SO WE'RE, UH, WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS ON THAT.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE STREET TREES COME IN.
AND, UH, AND SO THIS ONE IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART IS, UM, IS, THAT'S REALLY, UH, KEY I ITEM, WHICH IS WHY I LEFT BY 2028, IS ESTABLISHING THAT PILOT PROGRAM FOR WATER HARVESTING ON STREETS USING CURB CUTS AND OTHER TECHNIQUES.
THAT IS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO DO, UH, TO DO THAT? UM, MYSELF AND THE, UH, SENIOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNER AT SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY ARE PART OF AN EPA, UH, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ACCELERATOR NETWORK PROGRAM WHERE EVERY MONTH WE GET BROUGHT IN, THEY BRING IN THE EXPERTS THAT WE NEED TO REALLY LAY OUT THIS TEMPLATE, UH, WHAT TO OVERCOME THE BARRIERS.
AND IT INVOLVES ENROLLING ALL OF THE, THE RIGHT, RIGHT PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
SO WE CAN LOOK AT HOW DO WE, IN THIS CASE, GET STREET TREES, UH, AS STARTING AT SCHOOLS, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY BUILDING OUT FROM THERE.
SO, UH, THAT MY FIRST, UH, OUR FIRST ACCELERATOR, UH, PROGRAM WAS YESTERDAY.
UH, AND, UH, WE ARE ALREADY, UH, HAVE ALL OF OUR PIECES ROLLING OUT TO ENROLL IN.
THIS ENDS UP BEING AN EXAMPLE PROJECT THAT WILL ENGAGE ALL OF THE CITY, RELEVANT CITY STAFF TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY TO HELP US SOLVE ON ALL THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF IT.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, AGAIN, PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS, UH, AND NOT JUST PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS ENDS UP BEING ALL THE SCHOOLS.
THEY JUST HAPPEN TO BE THE ONE THAT HAPPENS TO BE CLOSEST TO THE, UH, HIGH INJURY NETWORK, UH, IS HOW VISION ZERO LAYS OUT, UM, AS THE PRIORITY SCHOOLS.
UM, SO, UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
UH, AND THIS IS THEN THE ASK TO YOU ALL, UH, IS THE TREE ADVISORY.
UH, WE WOULD LOVE IF, IF SOMEONE WAS ABLE TO ATTEND, UH, A CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION MEETING OR CONNECT IN AS IT RELATES TO THESE STREET TREES, UM, TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
THEY'RE MEETING, UM, ONE PIECE I FORGOT TO MENTION ABOUT HOW THE CLIMATE ADVISORY C OR, UH, YES, CLIMATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IS MEETING, THEY'RE ACTUALLY CONVENING, BREAKING OUT INTO AD HOCS IN THE MEETING INTO THREE DIFFERENT ROOMS, UH, TO DO, TO DO THIS DIALOGUING AND FIGURING OUT WHAT THE NEXT, WHAT DO WE HAVE AND WHAT DO WE NEED QUESTIONS ON, PROGRAM AND POLICY AND FUNDING, AND THEN RECONVENING AND SHARING OUT SO THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH IT ACTIVELY.
AND THE IDEAS THAT THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE.
UH, AND THAT IS WHERE YOU ALL, IF YOU HAPPEN TO, UH, BE AVAILABLE ON THE SECOND, THIRD, ONE OF YOU DOESN'T, NOT ALL OF YOU, UH, SOMEONE WANTS TO REPRESENT THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AT ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, UH, AT SIX O'CLOCK IN CHAMBERS.
UM, OR I CAN, IF THERE ISN'T, IF THAT DOESN'T, UM, WORK IN ANY OF THE COMMITTEE'S SCHEDULES, I CAN CONNECT YOU WITH, UH, SOMEONE ON ONE OF THOSE AD HOC, ON THAT PARTICULAR AD HOC THAT'S ADDRESSING STREET TREES.
UH, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE HAVE OUR, UH, UPCOMING FUTURE FESTS THAT YOU ALL SHOULD, UH, ALREADY NOT SHOULD YOU ALREADY ARE PARTICIPATING IN, EXCUSE ME.
UM, AND, UH, THERE'LL BE A CLIMATE ACTION ROUND TABLE.
IT'S A GREAT WAY TO JUST ENROLL PEOPLE IN THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING, UM, THAT IS, UM, FORTHCOMING, UH, IS TO ATTEND THOSE EVENTS AS THEY HAPPEN SO THAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH GREAT WORK THIS
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COMMITTEE IS, UH, UNDERTAKING.AND THEN I JUST ADD THIS IN BECAUSE IN THE END, IT'S WHAT WE DO AS A COLLECTIVE AND WHAT WE DO INDIVIDUALLY.
I AM JUST, UM, ONE OF MY FAVORITE TRANSPORTATION IS 67% OF OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN PETALUMA AND IN SONOMA COUNTY, UH, ONE OF THE BEST THINGS YOU CAN DO IS, UH, TAKE, UH, TRANSIT THAT INCLUDES WE HAVE LUMA GO AS YOU, UH, HAVE YOU HAVE NOT TRIED.
UH, I RECOMMEND, EVEN IF IT'S NOT COMING TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD YET, I RECOMMEND TRYING IT FROM SOMEPLACE TO ANOTHER PLACE.
IT'S JUST A GREAT WAY TO A, BE IN COMMUNITY, WHICH IS GREAT FOR, UH, ALL OF US TO BE AROUND EACH OTHER AND, AND JUST WATCH HOW WHO TAKES IT AND HOW IT, HOW FUN IT IS TO GET AROUND.
UM, THE ALSO, AS YOU KNOW, OUR FREE BUSES, UH, IS A GREAT WAY.
BUT TRYING IT OUT AS A, AS AS A WAY TO GET TO AND FROM POINT A TO POINT B WHEREVER YOU HAPPEN TO BE, IS A WAY TO START CHANGING YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO MODEL TO BE BEHAVIOR.
WE WANT TO SEE, UM, IT REALLY SHOULD SAY BUY AND LEASE.
UH, AN EV OR LEASE, I SHOULD SAY AN EV IS ANOTHER ONE.
UH, IF WE CONVERT A THOUSAND CARS A, A YEAR, UH, WE TAKE BIG CHUNKS OUT OF OUR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AS A CITY, UH, PLANT A CARBON GARDEN OR HELP, UM, OTHERS PLANT ONE, UH, THERE IS ELECTRIFY YOUR HOME.
AND AGAIN, SIGN UP FOR SNOW, CLEAN POWER, EVERGREEN, UH, COMPOSTING, IT'S AN OBVIOUS ONE, BUT, AND YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW IT.
I DON'T, IF YOU DON'T DO IT, PLEASE DO.
UM, AND, OR, AND, OR USE IT IN YOUR GARDEN IS EVEN BETTER.
PUM IS DOING A BOOK CLUB THAT I, THE BOOK, WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT, IS WHAT THEY'RE, UH, DOING.
IT'S A GREAT BOOK THAT I'VE BEEN ENJOYING READING.
SO I WAS EXCITED TO SEE THEY'RE DOING A BOOK CLUB, UH, NEXT SLIDE.
AND, UH, THE IDEA IS THAT THE BLUEPRINT IS OUR, UH, ROADMAP.
IF YOU HAVE IDEAS WHEN YOU READ THROUGH IT AND YOU'RE LIKE, HEY, I HAVE SOME COME TO ME.
I WANT TO, WE NEED TO BE, AGAIN, IT'S GETTING OUTTA BUSINESS AS USUAL.
WE NEED TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE IN, IN INVOLVED AND DOING THEIR PART TO, UH, HELP US AS A COMMUNITY, UH, BECOME THE PLACE THAT WE ALL ENVISION IT TO BE.
SO, UH, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AND, UH, I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UH, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMITTEE NOW FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION.
MARIANNE, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, DEB.
AND IT'S EXCITING TO LOOK AT ALL THE PLANS THAT THE CITY HAS AND MOVING FORWARD TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
UM, AND I'M KIND OF PUTTING ON MY OTHER HAT AS A PARKS COMMISSIONER HERE, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, UM, HOW DOES THE PROPOSED, UM, REPLACEMENT OF PLASTIC TURF AT LUCCHESE PARK FIT INTO THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN AND THE BLUEPRINT? THERE IS A LINE THAT SAYS THAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK TO, IT'S, IT'S AN OPTION THAT HAS TO BE AN AVAILABLE OPTION.
AND THEN WE'RE ENCOURAGING IN ALL FIRST CHOICE IS ALWAYS LOOKING AT, UH, NATURAL TURF.
BUT IT IS AN, IT IS SOME, EVERY, EVERY TOOL HAS, EVERYTHING HAS A TOOL.
AND AT SOME POINT, AND IN THIS CASE, THE STAFF HAS DONE THE WORK TO REALIZE THAT THAT'S THE TOOL THAT MOST WORKS FOR THE APPLICATION THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE USING IT FOR.
I'LL JUST COMMENT THAT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE CONSISTENT WITH ALL OF THAT STUFF AND A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT'S IN THIS BLUEPRINT, I UNDERSTAND THE POLITICS OF IT,
UH, ANYONE ELSE? QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? THANKS, DEB.
THAT WAS AN INSPIRING PRESENTATION.
I'VE GOT A QUESTION ABOUT WATER HARVESTING AND CURB CUTTING.
CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THAT IS? UH, YES.
UH, IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, ON A STREET THAT, UH, THERE IS SPACE THAT IS, UH, AS IT IS AS A SLOWING AN OPTION TO SLOW DOWN A STREET WITHOUT HAVING TO DO IT BY SPEED BUMPS OR, UH, JUST LOWERING THE SPEED, WHICH DOES HA ARE THE SOME TOOLS, AGAIN, THIS IS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RIGHT TOOL IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
A CHICANE IS A, UH, IT'S A CURVE IN THE ROAD, AND THOSE CAN HAVE TREES PLANTED IN THEM WITH CURB CUTS THAT CAN HAVE, UH, CAN BE WATERED TWO DIFFERENT WAYS.
WHEN IT RAINS A LOT, THE WATER JUST NATURALLY IS DESIGNED TO FLOW INTO, 'CAUSE ALL STREETS ARE AT A CURVE.
THE ROAD WOULD, UH, THE WATER WOULD FLOW
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INTO THESE CURB CUTS THAT WOULD THEN WATER EITHER THE CARBON GARDEN OR A TREE.WELL, YEAH, THANK YOU FOR FLESHING OUT THAT IDEA.
I REALLY LIKE YOUR APPROACH, THE COLLABORATION AND THE NETWORK, UH, CONCEPT.
UM, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE HAVE SO MANY REALLY SMART VOLUNTEERS IN OUR CITY THAT WORK SO HARD.
UM, AND I WANTED TO KNOW, UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, ELECTRIFICATION, UM, ELECTRIC VEHICLES HAVE A HUGE CARBON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, I'VE ASKED THIS BEFORE AND I'VE NEVER GOTTEN AN ANSWER.
WHAT IS THE FORMULA FOR OUR CALCULATING CARBON IMPACT? BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE TAKING A VERY MYOPIC SLASH SUPERFICIAL VIEW OF BEING THE END USER OF, UM, THIS HUGE MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND SAYING, HEY, LOOK, I GOT THIS PRODUCT NOW.
AND LOOK, THERE'S NO CARBON IMPACT WHEN IN FACT, TO MAKE THE PRODUCT IS ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS CARBON IMPACT.
SO I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THERE WAS ANY REPRESENTATION OF THAT THOROUGH THINKING AND ANALYSIS THAT WENT INTO THE CARBON CONCLUSIONS FOR SOME OF THIS STUFF? OH, UNFORTUNATELY, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT.
'CAUSE IT WAS BEFORE MY TIME, BUT THE CONSULTANTS DID A PRETTY THOROUGH JOB OF THAT ANALYSIS.
BUT I COULD ASK THEM FOR DETAILS ON THAT.
I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ASK, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT DIRECTLY.
UH, BUT SPEAKING TO A INDIRECT EMISSIONS ARE IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO.
UH, BASICALLY THAT'S ANYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT GETS MANUFACTURED, UH, HAS AN IMPACT.
UM, AND WE HAVE TO DIVERSIFY OUR TOOLKIT IS HOW I WOULD LOOK AT EVS ARE AN OPTION.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE OVER A A HUNDRED YEARS OF DRIVING CARS.
AND SO WE DO NEED TO DIVERSIFY THAT TOOLKIT AS A WAY TO GET AROUND.
WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO CUT OUT EVERYTHING, BUT WE'RE GONNA OFFER IS A VARIETY OF OPTIONS THAT AN ELECTRIC CAR DOES END UP BEING AN OPTION THAT WE ENROLL OR CONVERT TO FROM FOSSIL FUEL CARS.
AND SO IT, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST WHERE OUR TECHNOL MATCHES OUR CURRENT TECHNOLOGY AT THIS POINT.
AND DEB, THANK YOU FOR FIELDING THAT QUESTION.
I'LL JUST SAY FOR SPECIFIC CALCULATIONS, I ACTUALLY ASKED SOMETHING SIMILAR WHEN THIS WAS COMING AROUND AS A DRAFT.
UH, BUT JUST BECAUSE I'M SURE DEB WON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE MATH ALL STORED IN HER HEAD, UM, FOR SPECIFIC CALCULATIONS AND SPECIFIC KINDA ITEMS LIKE THAT, PLEASE DO FOLLOW UP VIA EMAIL.
UM, JUST BECAUSE IN THIS MEETING WE MIGHT NOT GET THE ANSWER, BUT GOOD TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION.
UM, TWO OTHER CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.
UM, ONE IS, UM, REGARDING THE TRANSPORTATION BREAKOUT GROUP, UM, I WOULD IMAGINE THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT BY, UH, MULTIMODAL PATHWAYS AND LOOKING AT WHAT'S GOING ON ON THOSE, RIGHT? A LOT OF US ARE GETTING, LIKE NEARLY RUN OVER ON THEM.
UH, YOU CAN SEE POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND STUFF.
SO I JUST HOPE, UH, YES, THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT, AT RULES OF THE ROAD MAYBE FOR THAT KIND OF THING.
THAT'S MORE THE, UH, PBA WOOD PEDESTRIAN BIKE ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT FALLS UNDER THEIR ROLE.
AND THEN CAN YOU PLEASE CLARIFY THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN? UM, IS THAT, ARE YOU SAYING THAT THAT IS A PROGRAM THAT THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMITTEE IS NOW TURNING THEIR VIEW TOWARD? OH, OH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TREE COMMITTEE ENGAGING ON THAT POINT BY BECOMING INVOLVED WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION? OH, IT, UH, I WOULD, THE URBAN, THE URBAN STREET TREES, SORRY, EXCUSE ME.
THE STREET TREES WAS THE ONE THAT I WAS SUGGESTING WOULD BE A GREAT WAY FOR YOU ALL TO INTERFACE WITH YOUR EXPERTISE AS THEY'RE BUILDING OUT, UH, WHAT THAT, UH, COULD LOOK LIKE TO DO STREET TREES AS IN THIS CURB CUT DESIGN TYPE OF THING.
THE, THE URBAN, UH, FORESTRY PLAN IS SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY A, IT, IT'S A STAFF ITEM, UH, THAT IS BEING, YEAH.
YEAH, TO CLARIFY, THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN ISN'T BEING LED BY THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION.
IT'S BEING LED BY STAFF, WHICH WOULD ROUTE THROUGH THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AND WE DO HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA
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TODAY TO GET AN INTRO FOR THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.BUT WHAT DEB IS SAYING IS THAT FOR A TREE ADVISORY TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION AND STREET TREES, ONE OF THEIR AD HOCS WOULD BE A PLACE THAT SHE WOULD THINK THAT YOUR EXPERTISE WOULD MAYBE SUIT THE BEST, NOT THAT YOU CAN'T PARTAKE IN OTHER AD HOCS.
ANYONE ELSE? QUESTION, BILL? YEAH, GREAT.
UH, GREAT TO SEE THE TREES SHOWING UP IN, UH, CLIMATE ACTION COMMITTEES AND THE CLIMATE READY SLIDES HERE.
AND, UM, I GUESS I WAS WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON THE PART ABOUT THE STREET TREES BEING INCLUDED AS IN THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AS, AS PART OF ANY MAJOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
AND I WAS WONDERING IF YOU'D HAD ANY SORT OF PRELIM FEEDBACK FROM THE CITY OR FROM THESE COMMITTEES AS FAR AS LIKE, HOW FAR ARE WE GONNA GO? BECAUSE IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO REPOPULATE OUR STREET TREES.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE, UM, BUT IT, IT, THERE'S, IT'S, IT'S A BIT COMPLICATED BECAUSE THE CITY DOESN'T OWN THE, THE, THOSE PROPERTIES.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT'S BEEN RESOLVED OR DISCUSSED OR IF HAD SOME THOUGHTS ON NO, WE'VE JUST STARTED, WE JUST MET YESTERDAY FOR THE FIRST TIME, SO NO, THIS IS, THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO BUILD IT OUT.
LIKE EVEN ASSESS WHETHER WE CAN DO STREET, HOW STREET TREES WORK IN STREETS, UH, VERSUS PRIVATE PROPERTY.
UM, AND SO, AND THEN THERE'S LIKE GHOST STREET.
THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, BUT ALL OF IT, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE, WE HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT.
THAT'S THE ANSWER IS NOT THERE YET.
THERE ARE JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE, AND SO WE, THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE START LOOKING TO IS OTHER JURISDICTIONS.
AND SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE A WAYS TO GO.
AND THEN ROGER, I SAW YOUR HAND UP AS WELL.
UM, I ASSUME THEN THAT THIS FURTHER STUDY OF STREET TREES WILL BE DONE BY THE URBAN FORESTRY CONSULTANT.
THAT'S NOT MY, UH, I'LL MAYBE ANSWER IT.
SO THERE'S A, THE URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN, ARE YOU, SO I'LL SPEAK TO THAT.
HOW IS THAT TIED IN WITH THIS, ROGER? I'LL GO AHEAD AND SPEAK TO THAT.
BECAUSE THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN IS BEING LED BY STAFF AND NOT THE, NOT THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION.
THE NOW A STUDY OF THE CANOPY WILL BE DONE, YOU KNOW, INCLUDING ALL PUBLIC FACILITIES AND THEN, UH, UH, UH, SLICE OF WHAT THE STREET TREES ARE, AND THAT'S WHAT THE MASTER PLAN WILL BE FORMED ON.
WELL, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW HOW WE
UH, SO I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT, THAT REALLY WORKS.
ROGER, QUICK, QUICK REMINDER OF MICROPHONE TOO, JUST TO MAKE SURE IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH, QUICK, QUICK REMINDER ON YOUR MICROPHONE JUST TO MAKE SURE IT CLOSE ENOUGH SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU.
DID, DID YOU HEAR ME OR SHOULD I REPEAT IT? YEAH, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND REPEATING IT.
UM, I WOULD THINK TRYING TO LOCATE WHERE WATER HARVESTING IS POSSIBLE OR DESIRABLE REQUIRES FIRST AN IDEA OF WHERE YOU WANNA PLANT TREES, WHICH REQUIRES SOME SORT OF A STREET TREE MASTER PLAN, WHICH TIES IN, I WOULD THINK, WITH FOREST URBAN MANAGE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT.
SO I'M NOT SURE HOW ALL THIS REALLY TIES TOGETHER WHEN THERE'S NOBODY IN CHARGE YET IT, SO ON OUR END, IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AROUND THESE SCHOOLS, WE'RE JUST STARTING THAT PLANNING PROCESS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT'S PART OF PLAN WE HAVE.
WE HAVE TO MAKE THE PLAN TO EVEN LOOK AT WHAT WE, WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
AND SO WE ARE JUST STARTING THAT PROCESS TO EVEN LOOK LIKE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AROUND ONE SCHOOL IN TERMS OF ORDER OF OPERATIONS.
THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GONNA, IT'S GONNA, THIS IS GONNA BE A BIG EFFORT, UH, TO DO ALL THESE THINGS AND ALL THE DIFFERENT ORDERS THAT NEED TO WHAT COMES FIRST PIECES, THE COORDINATING THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE LITERALLY GONNA BE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BARRIERS ARE.
SO JUST THE DECISION TO MAKE DO IT AROUND SCHOOLS COMES FROM, FROM WHAT PLANNING GROUP OR WHAT, UH, COMES FROM THE, THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY, UH, THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, UH, HAS, THEY ALREADY ARE WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS BASED ON PROJECTS THAT THEY HAVE LINED UP.
UM, YEAH, I, I, I GUESS MY BEING MY BACKGROUND ON, ON THE LANDSCAPE
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ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING, I SEE TREES AS AN ASSET, AS A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY, REAL ESTATE FRIENDLY.THE BEYOND CLIMATE CLIMATE IS, TO ME, IT'S A BYPRODUCT OF TREES.
IT IS NOT THE CAUSE OF, OF PLANTING TREES.
THE URBAN DESIGN IS MORE WHERE DO WE PLANT THE TREES TO MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE, MORE, UH, COMFORTABLE FOR PEDESTRIANS WITH SHADE, SO ON.
I DON'T SEE THAT ANY OF THAT IN HERE, THAT'S SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WHEN, WHEN DOES ALL THAT DISCUSSION HAPPEN AND HOW DOES THAT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM? SO LET ME MAYBE CLARIFY ROGER THAT.
I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PLANNING FUNCTIONALITY AND THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION AND THE BLUEPRINT OVERALL FOR THE CITY'S CLIMATE GOALS ARE NOT DEALING WITH THE PLANNING, LIKE DEVELOPMENT PORTION OF IT.
UM, THERE'S, IT'S GONNA BE MULTI-PRONGED.
THERE'S URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH WILL HELP BE THE MAP OF A LOT OF WHAT WE DO MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CITY AS IT PERTAINS TO TREES.
BUT AS FAR AS LAYING OUT WHERE TREES WILL GO, THAT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA BE MULTI-PRONG, RIGHT? BECAUSE THERE'S ALREADY EXISTING PROPERTIES.
THERE'LL BE DEVELOPMENTS, THERE'LL BE THINGS THAT THE CITY HAS CONTROL OVER, LIKE CITY PROPERTIES THAT WE'D WANNA LOOK AT.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN COMES INTO PLAY.
I GUESS I'M TRYING TO SAY, I WOULD RATHER SEE STREET TREE PLANNING GO FROM PROJECT RELATED PROJECT BY PROJECT RELATED TO STREET CORRIDOR RELATED.
SO IF WE DECIDE A PEDAL OFA BOULEVARD SHOULD BE A, A WELL-DEFINED STREET WITH STREET TREES, THERE'S A PROGRAM TO DO THAT REGARDLESS OF PROJECTS.
THE PROJECTS CAN BE BACK CHARGED ONCE YOU ACCOMPLISH IT.
AND THEY DEVELOP, THEY MAY PAY THEIR SHARE OF THAT FEE, BUT A MORE COMPREHENSIVE STREET TREE APPROACH AS OPPOSED TO WAITING FOR A PROJECT TO SHOW UP TO DO IT.
AND, AND TO BE HONEST, I'VE HAD, WE'VE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE WITH ENGINE CIVIL ENGINEERING PARTICIPATING IN ROAD PROJECTS, TRYING TO GET TREES PLANTED, TRYING TO BULB OUT.
IT'S A VERY, UH, UH, INEFFECTIVE PROCESS TO DATE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY AGAIN, FOR THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THAT'S WHAT THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN PROCESS IS TO BE, IS TO HELP US GIVE THE ROADMAP AS IT PERTAINS TO TREES, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION AND WHAT DEB IS HERE PRESENTING IS SEPARATE FROM THAT INTO YOUR MICROPHONE.
I KNOW SHE REFERENCES IT, BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT, I JUST WANNA CLARIFY BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION THAT THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR IS HAPPENING.
WE DO HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM TO NOMINATE SOMEBODY FROM THIS GROUP TO BE ON THE WORKING COMMITTEE.
AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK ROGER WAS REALLY FOR, IS THAT ROADMAP FOR WHAT WE DO WITH OUR TREES, INCLUDING STREET TREES.
WELL, AND TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT POINT, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE ROGER AND FOLKS ON THIS COMMITTEE HAVE BEEN VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THESE ISSUES AROUND STREET TREES.
UH, I, AND, AND I DON'T WANT TO SQUANDER WHAT WAS A LOT OF VOLUNTEER HOURS AND KIND OF STARTING TO BROACH SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
SO I LIKE THE IDEA TO INCLUDE US IN THIS DISCUSSION.
AND I'M SEEING THIS, UH, TO YOUR POINT, ROGER, I'M SEEING THIS AS, THIS IS ONE TINY PIECE, ALMOST LIKE A PILOT OF SOME KIND OF STREET TREE TECHNOLOGY, IF YOU WILL, BEST PRACTICES THAT IS GONNA BE DONE WITH CITY SCHOOLS, PROBABLY TO AVOID PRIVATE PROPERTY ISSUES.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN WORK WITH, YOU'VE GOT ALREADY SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT, UM, INVOLVED.
SO IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEST SOME STREET TREE IDEAS OR TECHNOLOGIES.
BUT I THINK, UH, TO ROGER'S POINT, YOU KNOW, WHEN I HEARD THIS AS WELL, YOU START THINKING, WELL, ON TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT STREET TREES FOR A LONG TIME.
HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE INVOLVED WITH THIS PROCESS? BECAUSE THE ISSUES YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, IT'S GRIST TO THE MILL OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT EVERY MEETING.
UM, SO ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS, CINDY, HOW CAN WE COORDINATE, I I GUESS FIRST TO ADVOCATE FOR IT, IF POSSIBLE, TO HAVE THAT CAC WORKING GROUP, NOT TO SLOW DOWN THEIR WORK, BUT IF THERE IS A POSSIBLE FOR ANY KIND OF FORMAL OVERLAP, WHETHER THEY GIVE A PRESENTATION AT SOME POINT, UM, TO THIS GROUP WHEN THEY'VE GOTTEN FAR ENOUGH ALONG, OBVIOUSLY WE CAN HAVE FOLKS CONTRIBUTE IN THE MEANTIME, BUT THAT, THAT WAS REALLY MY QUESTION, IS HOW CAN WE COORDINATE MEMBERS HERE WHO WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS EARLY CAC WORKING GROUP ON STREET TREES WITHOUT AFFECTING A QUORUM ISSUE? BECAUSE I HAVE A FEELING EVERYONE'S GONNA BE, WANT TO BE PART OF IT.
I KNOW YOU SAID ONE MEMBER, BUT I KNOW EVERYONE IS INTERESTED.
IS THERE A WAY WE CAN COORDINATE THAT? SO WE KIND OF HAVE FOLKS INDICATE INTEREST, AVOID QUORUM ISSUES, BUT GIVE ALMOST ALL THE DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF TAC AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THAT CONVERSATION? WELL, EVERYBODY'S WELCOME TO ATTEND THE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND TAKE PART OF IT AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER.
SO THAT DOESN'T, THAT DOESN'T PRECLUDE.
SO IF YOU GO AND YOU GIVE INPUT, EVERYBODY CAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IT DOESN'T MEET THE QUORUM NUMBER BECAUSE THE ITEM THEY'RE DEALING WITH IS A CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION ITEM, NOT SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO THE TREE COMMITTEE UNDER THEIR PURVIEW.
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WHY DEB PUT UP, IF ANYBODY WOULD LOVE TO COME TO THE MEETINGS, PLEASE DO SO.IT'S THE THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT 6:00 PM AND THEY'LL HAVE BREAKOUTS THERE.
SO JUST LIKE IF ANY MEETING YOU CAN GO TO COUNCIL, YOU CAN GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION.
IF YOU'RE NOT A COMMISSIONER, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO ATTEND.
BUT, YOU KNOW, P BACK, ANY COMMITTEE CCB, WE HAVE, YOU GUYS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO ATTEND AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER AND GIVE INPUT.
SO THIS WOULD BE A GREAT FOOT IN THE DOOR FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN REALLY INTO THESE ISSUES.
BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS GROUP AS PART OF THE CAC WORKING GROUP, WOULD HAVE MORE OF A THROUGH LINE TO PUBLIC WORKS, AND I WOULD SAY ALMOST TANGIBLY WORKING THROUGH THESE ISSUES A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WE'VE HAD TO THIS POINT.
IS THAT ACCURATE IN TERMS OF HOW THEY'RE GONNA BE WORKING WITH, DIRECTLY WITH POTENTIALLY, I DUNNO IF IT WOULD BE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR CITY DEPARTMENTS, AND FIGURING OUT WHAT ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION LOOKS LIKE? BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THESE IDEAS IN THEORY, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY CONNECTED IT QUITE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE WORK, WHETHER IT BE CITY OR, UH, SO IS THAT ACCURATE THAT YOU GUYS KIND OF HAVE THAT THROUGH LINE TO THE NEXT STEP OF REAL IMPLEMENTATION WITH THIS? YEAH, WITH THIS GROUP, WITH THE, WITH THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY PROJECT, IT IS A, IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY A, A TANGIBLE PROJECT THAT WE CAN ALL RALLY AROUND.
THIS IS, TO ME, THIS IS WHY THIS IS A GREAT, UM, CROSS COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITY.
UM, AND SO IN THAT SENSE, YES.
AND I WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF TIME, UH, BUT I DO WANNA LEAVE IT OPEN IN TARYN IF YOU HAVE A QUICK ITEM.
UM, YEAH, AND I THINK, UH, ONE OF THE SOLUTIONS IS, UM, DEB, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE NOT AWARE OF IT, BUT OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AD HOC HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR, I DON'T KNOW, A YEAR AND A HALF NOW, AND THE AMOUNT OF WORK WE'VE DONE WITH PUBLIC UTILITIES, INCLUDING ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF BULB BOUTS AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, AND, UM, OVERLAYING, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE, WATER, ET CETERA.
UM, AND WITH STREET TREE OWNERS AND WITH SIDEWALK STANDARDS, I MEAN, WE'VE, WE WENT STEEP UP THAT LEARNING CURVE AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THE CAC HAS GOT A LEARNING CURVE TO GO UP.
AND SO I THINK THAT IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR, UM, IT WOULDN'T BREAK THE BROWN ACT, NOT LIKE ANYONE CARES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT'S GONNA COME TO A VOTE OR ANYTHING.
RIGHT? BUT WE'VE GOT AN AD HOC HERE THAT CAN BE TAPPED IN OR MEMBERS ROTATED IN, UM, CERTAINLY AT A MEETING OUTSIDE OF A MEETING WITH QUESTIONS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO IT MIGHT EVEN MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A FORMAL LIAISON, BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF EXPERTISE ON THIS TREE COMMITTEE IS AMAZING.
AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL OF THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSIONERS AND YOU KNOW, IT'S A PIECE THAT I THINK IS NEEDED EXCEPT FOR JOHN TRIPS, RIGHT? IF HE'S STILL THE LIAISON.
UM, SO, AND THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD SELE, UH, SOLUTION BECAUSE YOU MIGHT FIND YOU, THERE'S SO MUCH TO KNOW, AND YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, AND IT'LL BE A RIGHT HAND MAN KIND OF A DEAL.
YOU KNOW, WOMAN, THAT IS THE DESIGN, THAT IS THE REASON WHY I'M HERE, AND WHICH IS WHY IT WAS THE ASK, UM, THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION.
NO, AGAIN, IT COMES BACK TO NO ONE PERSON HAS THE ANSWER.
WE ALL HAVE TO WORK COL COLLABORATIVELY AND TAP OUR EXISTING RESOURCES.
AND YOU GUYS ARE A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THAT'S WHY THE INVITE IS TO COME.
THEY DON'T PROFESS TO HAVE THE ANSWERS.
THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE CORNERSTONE ACTION THAT THEY HAVE TO ON TO ADDRESS.
UM, IT, SO, UH, AND DEB, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I JUST SAY ABSOLUTELY, THERE'S A LOT OF EXPERTISE HERE.
I DO WANNA CAUTION US AN OFFICIAL LIAISONS THAT IS IN THE ENABLING RESOLUTION, WHICH MEANS IT WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO COUNCIL TO HAVE AN OFFICIAL LIAISON FOR CHANGES TO, UM, WHAT'S IN THAT RESOLUTION.
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOUR AD HOC CANNOT REACH OUT TO ANY OF OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS NOW THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF ALL THE WORK THAT WE DO AND ASK TO TAP THEIR EXPERTISE.
AND I CAN'T IMAGINE GETTING A LIAISON WOULD BE THAT HARD.
IT'D BE ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, RIGHT? UH, NI DON'T KNOW.
BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE, WELL, YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY THAT WOULD PULL IT TOGETHER TO LOOK AT IT TO, AND THERE'S RATIOS, THAT MEANS YOU'D HAVE TO PULL SOMEBODY OFF OF CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION TO CREATE THAT.
I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST SIMPLE.
LIKE WE JUST THROW A CONSENT ITEM ON THE COUNCIL CALENDAR, RIGHT? YEAH.
I, IT'S JUST NOT AS SIMPLE AS I THINK WE THINK IT COULD BE.
IT'S, IT REALLY IS THE ASK IS THAT YOU COME AND PARTICIPATE AT, AT THIS POINT.
LET'S, LET'S JUST GET TO ACTION AND START WORKING THROUGH THESE THINGS IS REALLY WHAT, UH, SO SECOND TUESDAY, SIX O'CLOCK, THEY MOVED IT TO SIX O'CLOCK.
UH, AND SO, OR I CAN CONNECT YOU, UH, UH, VIA EMAIL IF, IF THAT'S, YOU KNOW, JUST THOSE ARE, THERE'S A LOT THERE.
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THAT, TARYN.AND THE OTHER CALL IS FOR US TO SUMMARIZE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND INJECT INTO THAT PROCESS, UM, AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
SO, UM, ANYONE ELSE WITH ANY LAST MINUTE ITEMS? QUICK ITEMS, BUT AGAIN, WE, WE DO HAVE MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
NOT SEEING ANYONE FRANTICALLY WAVING THEIR HANDS.
I WILL THANK, OH, PLEASE, MARY, JUST ONE MORE NOTE, JUST BECAUSE I DON'T MEAN TO BELABOR THE POINT, BUT THE ESTIMATE IS THAT IT TAKES 1,861 STREET TREES TO OFFSET ONE ARTIFICIAL TURF FIELD.
FINAL RIBBON ON THE PRESENTATION THERE, MARIAN
UM, AND THANK YOU DEB FOR COMING, GIVING THE PRESENTATION TO US THAT ACTUALLY CLOSES THE PRES, OH, EXCUSE ME, PUBLIC COMMENT.
I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE BLUEPRINT PRESENTATION.
IF WE HAVE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME AND SUBMIT A SPEAKER CARD, YOU CAN COME AND SPEAK AND SUBMIT A SPEAKER CARD AFTER, UH, YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SHARE, UH, YOUR COMMENT RELEVANT TO THIS AGENDA ITEM.
YOU CAN JUST PUT YOUR NAME HERE, PERFECT'S FINE.
AND WE HAVE ONE MEMBER IN AT, OR ONE COMMUNITY MEMBER IN ATTENDANCE WHO IS FILLING OUT A COMMENT CARD.
I ASK THE CITY CLERK, DID WE HAVE ANY ONLINE COMMENTS, UH, ON THIS ITEM PRIOR TO THE MEETING? WE DID NOT.
WELL, THEN I WILL OPEN IT FOR OUR FIRST COMMENTER.
I'M, UM, HERE ON BEHALF OF RELIEF PETALUMA.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND THEN JUST, UH, IN PARTICULAR, I DID LIKE THE, THE LAST PART WHERE YOU TALKED ABOUT SORT OF OTHER THINGS WE CAN BE DOING NOW, UM, WHICH I THINK GOES TO THE POINT OF LIKE PLANNING VERSUS ACTION, YOU KNOW, WE NEED BOTH.
AND IT'S, IT'S NEAT TO SEE THAT THE CLIMATE ACTION BLUEPRINT, YOU KNOW, WAS UNDER UNDERWAY WITH A LOT OF INPUT, BUT NOBODY WAITED FOR THAT TO END IN ORDER TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT GOOD CLIMATE ACTIONS.
WE CAN TAKE, BUT IT DOES GIVE US A BLUEPRINT FOR DOING THOSE IN SMART AND SENSIBLE WAYS SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT WITH TREES, RIGHT? SO WE, YOU KNOW, A TREE MASTER PLAN AWESOME, BUT THERE'S PLACES TO PUT TREES NOW.
THERE'S PROJECTS HAPPENING NOW, AND WE CAN BE LOOKING AT THOSE AND MAKING THEM BETTER.
UH, SO I JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK.
UM, I DID HAVE A QUESTION THAT MIGHT GO TOO MUCH INTO THE WEEDS, AND SO I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE IF IT DOES, BUT, UM, I'M CURIOUS, THE TREE PROTECTION ORDINANCE, UM, IS THE PRIORITY, AND I'M WONDERING IF WE KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT SORT OF THE, HOW IT'S BEING AGENDIZED, UM, IS IT COMING BACK HERE, WHEN IS IT GOING RIGHT TO COUNCIL? DO WE HAVE ANY 4 1 1 ON, ON? WHAT'S THE NEXT STEPS ARE? WELL, IN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, WE GENERALLY DON'T ASK BACK AND FORTH QUESTIONS, BUT, UH, PLEASE FINISH YOUR COMMENT AND WE'LL, WE'LL TRY TO ADDRESS THAT.
RIGHT? UM, THAT'S THE END OF MY COMMENT.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, AND AS PART OF YOUR STAFF UPDATE, CINDY, WILL YOU, UM, INCLUDE ANY UPDATES ABOUT THE TPO? SURE.
UH, SO I'LL MOVE ON THEN FROM PRESENTATIONS
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TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES.SO I'LL BE LOOKING AT APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING ON NOVEMBER 20TH, 2024, AND I WILL JUST ASK IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS OR CHANGES FROM THOSE MINUTES.
EVERLY, I JUST NOTICED THAT THEY MISSPELLED CAROLYN RA'S NAME FROM RELIEF.
AND THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR HOMEWORK AND, AND READING THE MINUTES.
UM, ANYONE ELSE? ANY QUESTIONS OR CHANGES? OKAY, I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER CHANGES GIVEN THAT THERE WAS ONE CHANGE.
DO WE NEED TO DO A FULL VOTE OR IS THE FACT THAT NO ONE HAS ANY CHANGES ENOUGH? YEAH, I THINK IT'S ENOUGH.
WE CAN DEEM THEM AS APPROVED WITH A SPELLING CORRECTION.
YOU THINK THAT IS OKAY, CINDY? OKAY, PERFECT.
WE WILL DEEM THEM AS APPROVED WITH A SPELLING CORRECTION.
UH, THANK YOU TO THE CLERK FOR THAT.
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION, UH, THIS IS ITEM NUMBER THREE, INTRODUCTION TO THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN DEVELOPMENT AND NOMINATION OF ONE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER TO SERVE AS, AS THE COMMITTEE'S REPRESENTATIVE ON THEIR URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN WORKING GROUP.AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOMEONE FROM URBAN ECOS HERE TO GUIDE OUR PRESENTATION ON THEIR URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN.
YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE HERE.
AND ON YOUR SCREEN YOU'LL SEE COLLEEN, SHE'S WITH URBAN ECOS AND SHE'S HERE TO PRESENT TO YOU.
WE'RE STARTING THE PROCESS OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT OF THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE COMMITTEE HERE TO NOMINATE AND RECOMMEND ONE PERSON TO SIT ON THE WORKING GROUP, UM, TO HELP US THROUGH THE PROCESS.
SO I HAVE, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'LL KICK IT OFF TO KALA.
HEY, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.
CAN YOU, UH, CAN YOU HEAR ME SOUND GREAT? YEAH.
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BE THIS DISEMBODIED HEAD AND I'M WAITING FOR THE, UH, FOR THEM TO HAND ME MY HOLOGRAM SO THAT I COULD BE SITTING WITH YOU THERE IN PERSON, BUT THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET, SO WE'LL JUST HAVE TO GO WITH THE TECHNOLOGY AS IT STANDS.I'M AN URBAN FORESTRY CONSULTANT AND HAVE BEEN FOR ABOUT, OH, MORE THAN 15 YEARS NOW, UH, A BACKGROUND IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND FORESTRY.
SO I HAVE SOME SYMPATHY FOR SOME OF THOSE EARLIER COMMENTS.
UM, I STARTED MY CAREER IN THE FOREST SERVICE AT D IN DAVIS.
UH, CINDY, WE CAN JUST STICK, STICK ON THE, STICK WITH A PRETTY PICTURE FOR NOW.
UM, WITH A FOREST SERVICE IN DAVIS AT THE CENTER FOR URBAN FOREST RESEARCH, DOING RESEARCH INTO THE BENEFITS OF TREES, LIKE THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE.
AND I BRANCHED OUT ON MY OWN BECAUSE I WANTED TO PUT THAT RESEARCH INTO ACTION IN PRACTICAL WAY.
AND SINCE THEN, I'VE BEEN HELPING MUNICIPALITIES AND NONPROFITS, STATE AGENCIES TO MAKE THEIR URBAN FORESTS BETTER.
SO TOGETHER WITH MY TEAM, UH, WORKING WITH ME IS NANCY HUGHES AND DOROTHY ABETA.
UH, BETWEEN US, WE HAVE ABOUT 75 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN URBAN FORESTRY FROM MANAGEMENT OF NONPROFITS TO WORKING IN CITY GOVERNMENT TO PRIVATE CONSULTING, TO ACADEMIC RESEARCH.
SO, UM, I THINK YOU, WE HAVE IT COVERED TO HELP YOU GET THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN, AND WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING STARTED.
SO WHAT I WANTED TO DO TO TODAY WAS JUST GIVE YOU THE FOUNDATION OF THE, OF THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE AN OVERARCHING PICTURE, AND THEN WE HAVE THAT ACTION ITEM THAT CINDY MENTIONED, AND THEN, UM, JUST TALK ABOUT HOW I CAN BEST COMMUNICATE WITH YOU GOING FORWARD.
SO, UM, I JUST PUT TOGETHER A COUPLE OF SLIDES TO KEEP US SORT OF ON TRACK HERE, UM, TO SEE, TO, TO GIVE THIS OVERALL PERSPECTIVE.
UM, CINDY, WE CAN JUST GO TO THE FIRST SLIDE.
SO THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHICH WILL PROBABLY TAKE US MOST OF 2025, JUST BECAUSE THERE'LL BE ALL THESE, THESE FEEDBACK OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS THAT WILL GIVE AND TAKE WILL TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
UM, THE PARTS OF THE PROCESS, WE, WE'LL HAVE AN ADVISORY COMPONENT, AND I'M GONNA SAVE THAT FOR THE END, SO WE CAN USE THAT AS OUR TO DO ITEM.
UM, WE'VE GOT PUBLIC OUTREACH PLANNED.
UM, WE'RE, WE'VE BEGUN A REVIEW OF THE EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO URBAN FORESTRY IN THE CITY.
UM, THEN WE'LL DEVELOP A PLAN, HOPEFULLY WITH, WITH HELP FROM YOU ALL, AND THEN WE WILL FINALIZE IT AND PRESENT IT TO THE PUBLIC.
SO STARTING WITH THE PURPOSE WITH THE PUBLIC OUTREACH.
UM, YOU HAD A PUBLIC OUTREACH MEETING IN NOVEMBER OF 2023, AND WE'VE REVIEWED THOSE NOTES.
SOME OF THEM ARE THERE ON THE SCREEN.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THOSE AND START WITH A FIRST, UH, OR A SECOND EARLY PUBLIC MEETING IN, IN MARCH ON A SATURDAY MORNING OR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
WE'LL DO SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID BEFORE, BUT WE'LL DO A PRESENTATION ON URBAN FORESTRY.
THEN WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE SOME BREAKOUT GROUPS TO HIT THESE SORT OF HOT TOPICS LIKE NATIVE TREES, STREET TREE DESIGN AND CLIMATE ACTION, AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
UM, THEN WE'LL HOPE FOR ANOTHER PUBLIC MEETING IN, IN THE SUMMER AFTER WE'VE COLLECTED SOME OF THE DATA THAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT, WE'LL BE ABLE TO PRESENT THAT TO PEOPLE AND HELP THEM GET A, A, A MORE SPECIFIC IDEA OF THE THINGS THEY'D MIGHT LIKE TO SEE US DO.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A FINAL PUBLIC MEETING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FALL, PROBABLY AFTER WE'VE GOT THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE DOCUMENT SO WE CAN PRESENT IT AND GET SOME PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON THAT.
AND WE'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE SOME MORE CASUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH.
WE'VE BEEN INSPIRED BY SOME WORK THAT HAPPENED IN FRESNO AT THEIR RECENT, UH, URBAN FORCE MANAGEMENT PLAN DEVELOPMENT, UM, WHERE THEY HAD TABLES AT FARMER'S MARKETS.
I, I HEARD A MENTION OF YOUR FUTURE FEST TODAY, UM, AND HAVING PEOPLE RATHER THAN JUST A, A CONVERSATION, HAVING PEOPLE ACTUALLY INTERACT WITH SOME PLANNING FOR THE URBAN FOREST AND GATHERING THEIR IDEAS THAT WAY.
AND THEN, UM, WITH INSPIRATION FROM DAVIS, WE ARE GONNA DO A PHOTO COMPETITION, HAVE PEOPLE SUBMIT THEIR FAVORITE PICTURES OF THE URBAN FOREST, AND WE'LL USE THOSE TO POPULATE THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN TOO.
THAT'S JUST A, THAT'S A THROWAWAY FINAL.
UM, THE NEXT PIECE IS THE REVIEW OF EXISTING RESOURCES.
SO WE'RE DIGGING INTO THE POLICIES AND THE REGULATIONS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO URBAN FORESTRY, UM, FIGURING OUT WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM, AND THERE'S LOTS OF LITTLE PIECES OF THAT ALL AROUND.
UM, WHO'S STAFF, WHERE DID THE STAFF TIME COME FROM? WHAT ARE THE, UH, COMMITTEES LIKE YOURS? UM, AND NOW I, THE THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION AND GETTING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHO IS INFLUENCING URBAN FORESTRY AND PETALUMA.
UM, THEN WE'RE ALSO CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF, OF A SORT OF A TWO-PART INVENTORY.
SO THERE ARE THE TREES THAT UNEQUIVOCALLY BELONG TO THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THOSE ARE MOSTLY THE ONES, THOSE ARE ALL THE ONES IN THE PARKS.
AND THEN A FEW LITTLE BLOCKS WHERE THE STREET TREES THAT SIT IN FRONT OF A PUBLIC BUILDING ARE UNEQUIVOCALLY THE CITIES.
UM, SO WE WILL HAVE INVENTORIED A COMPLETE INVENTORY OF ALL OF THOSE TREES, IS,
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I ACTUALLY THINK AT THIS POINT IT'S COMPLETE.UM, THEN THE SECOND THING THAT THING HAS IN MIND OF ITS OWN, HUH? UM, THE SECOND THING WE'RE WORKING ON IS A RANDOM SAMPLE OF STREET TREES.
SO WE DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING TO DOCUMENT EVERY TREE SITS ON A STREET IN PETALUMA.
THERE'S PROBABLY 20,000 OF THEM OR MORE.
SO, UM, AT THE ADVICE OF CAL FIRE, WHO IS A GRANT, WHO IS THE FUNDER OF THIS GRANT, WE ARE DOING A 10% RANDOM SAMPLE OF STREET SEGMENTS.
AND SO WE'LL GO TO THOSE 10% RANDOM SAMPLE, AND ON THAT BLOCK, IT'S NOT A BLOCK, BUT A STREET SEGMENT.
UM, EVERY TREE THAT SITS ON THE STREET THERE WILL BE INVENTORIED, AND THAT WILL HELP US GET A SENSE OF THE SPECIES DIVERSITY AND THE AGE DIVERSITY AND THE HEALTH OF THE TREES THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY.
BUT SO, SO THEY ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNER, BUT ARE SITTING ON PROPERTY THAT SORT OF BELONGS TO THE CITY.
UM, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WE WOULD BE INVESTIGATING DURING THIS PROCESS IS WHAT ARE THE BEST WAYS TO MANAGE THAT RELATIONSHIP? WHAT DO WE WANT THAT RELATIONSHIP TO LOOK LIKE? UM, ONCE WE HAVE THAT INVENTORY, WE'LL USE IT TO CREATE A MUNICIPAL FOREST ANALYSIS.
AND SO THAT WOULD BE AN ANALYSIS OF THE TREES THAT BELONG TO THE CITY, AND THAT WILL COME FROM OUR INVENTORY.
AND THEN WE'RE KIND OF SUBCONTRACTING WITH A FIRM TO DO A TREE CANOPY ANALYSIS.
SO SOMEBODY WILL BE USING AERIAL IMAGERY LIDAR TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE TREE CANOPY LOOKS LIKE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
SO THAT'S BACKYARDS AND, UH, NOT JUST THE STREET TREES, BUT THE TREES ALL ACROSS THE CITY.
GET A GOOD NUMBER OF WHAT THE TREE CANOPY COVER IS.
UM, FIGURE OUT WHERE THE HOTSPOTS ARE, FIGURING OUT WHERE THE, WHERE WE NEED TREES THE MOST.
AND, UM, SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT ANALYSIS.
NEXT ONE, CINDY, PLEASE THEN DEVELOP, FINALIZE AND PRESENT THE PLAN.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE BIGGEST AND HARDEST PART OF IT, AND I'VE JUST PUT IT IN ONE SLIDE.
BUT THAT WILL INVOLVE IDENTIFYING THE KEY GOALS, SETTING TARGETS FOR THINGS LIKE CANOPIES, SPECIES DIVERSITY, UM, OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UPDATES TO POLICIES.
UH, WE'LL DEVELOP SOME BUDGET SCENARIOS FOR THE IDEAS THAT THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS BEING OF INTEREST, AND THEN WE'LL PRESENT IT TO THE PUBLIC.
AND, UM, ON THE RIGHT IS THE, IS THE WAY THAT OAKLAND CHOSE TO PRESENT THEIR URBAN FOREST PLAN IN THIS REALLY NEAT STORY MAP.
REALLY WHAT HAPPENS TOO OFTEN WITH SOMETHING LIKE THESE KINDS OF THINGS IS THAT THEY END UP ON A SHELF IN CINDY'S DESK AND THEY DON'T GET ENOUGH PUBLIC DISPLAY TO SORT OF CARRY THEM FORWARD.
SO WE ARE GOING TO, UH, USE TECHNOLOGY AND MAPPING AND TELL THE STORY FOR THE PUBLIC SO THAT PEOPLE CAN HOPEFULLY GET EXCITED AND BE ABLE TO ENVISION WHAT WE CAN HAVE.
SO THE LAST ONE, UM, THE LAST SLIDE IS JUST THE ADVISORY COMPONENTS.
SO WE'VE GOT PUBLIC OUTREACH AND THAT'S JUST THE GENERAL PUBLIC, BUT THEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR, UM, MORE EXPERT ADVICE.
AND SO WE'VE, WE'RE, WE'RE BUILDING A WORKING GROUP.
THAT'S ONE OF OUR GOALS IS FOR THAT TO NOT, NOT GET TOO OUT OF HAND.
WE'RE GONNA MEET QUARTERLY ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAYS OF THE MONTH AT LUNCHTIME, STARTING IN FEBRUARY.
AND WE ARE HOPING THAT ONE MEMBER OF THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE COULD BE CHOSEN TO JOIN US FOR THAT.
UM, FOR EVERYBODY ELSE WHO'S INTERESTED AND WHO FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE A LOT THEY'D LIKE TO SAY, UM, SO NOT JUST FOR THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, BUT, BUT FOR OTHER CITY OFFICIALS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE OTHER ARBORISTS, CITY ARBORISTS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE'LL BE DOING ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS SO THAT YOU'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO TELL US YOUR STORY AND TELL US THE THINGS THAT YOU THINK ARE IMPORTANT, YOUR PRIORITIES, YOUR CONCERNS.
UM, SO PLEASE DON'T FEEL IF YOU, UH, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE TIME, UM, OR THE AVAILABILITY TO BE THAT PERSON ON THE WORKING GROUP, WE DEFINITELY STILL WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT FOR SLIDES.
CINDY, IF YOU WANNA, I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY SHUT THAT DOWN IF YOU'D LIKE.
THEN I CAN SORT OF CAN SQUINT AND SORT OF SEE EVERYBODY.
UH, THANK YOU KLA VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I WILL LOOK AT OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND JUST, UH, BEING COGNIZANT OF TIME, I'M GONNA ASK FOR MAYBE YOUR TOP COUPLE BURNING QUESTIONS.
'CAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF US ARE RE-HEARING THIS AND HAVE PROBABLY TONS OF QUESTIONS.
UH, SO I WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR WRITING THINGS DOWN, EMAILING PROBABLY TO CINDY TO SEE IF WE CAN PASS THESE ALONG TO OUR CONSULTANT.
IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF SPECIFIC QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
BUT I'LL JUST ASK, UH, FOR KIND OF THE, THE TOP QUESTIONS FROM OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, NICE TO MEET YOU AND, AND THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP TO DO THIS REALLY IMPORTANT WORK WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT AND SO DESPERATELY IN NEED OF, UM, YOU MENTIONED RANDOM
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SAMPLING FOR STREET TREES.UM, HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION OR MIGHT THERE BE ANY ARM TWISTING TO, UH, NUDGE YOU AWAY FROM RANDOM AND TOWARD ADVISED STREETS? THERE ARE SOME STREETS THAT ARE, UM, ESPECIALLY PLAGUED WITH, UM, UH, GHOST TREES, EMPTY WELLS, UM, THINGS AND, AND, UH, AND, UM, EXISTING HEAT ISLAND.
UH, SO THAT'S ONE QUESTION I HAVE.
UH, YEAH, THAT, SO THAT WOULD SORT OF BE, WE WOULD BE WORKING WITH TWO DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES THERE.
SO THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RANDOM SAMPLE IS TO GIVE US, UH, A BETTER PICTURE OF THE OVERALL POPULATION OF STREET TREES IN PETALUMA.
AND THAT WAY WE CAN SAY, FOR INSTANCE, UM, WE'VE GOT 20% CREPE MYRTLES, WE'VE GOT, UH, 50% TREES THAT ARE AT THE ENDS OF THEIR LIVES AND NEED EXTRA CARE.
SO I THINK THE RANDOM SAMPLE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE IS REALLY VALUABLE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA LET US EXTRAPOLATE TO THE POPULATION AS A WHOLE.
UM, THE TARGETING OF SPECIFIC BLOCKS IS SOMETHING I THINK WE COULD SIT DOWN AND TALK ABOUT, AND YOU COULD POINT US TO THOSE.
AND THEN I BELIEVE IN THE END WE PROBABLY ARE GOING TO HAVE EXTRA FUNDING FOR SOME INVENTORY WORK, AND WE PROBABLY COULD INCORPORATE THOSE.
WE WOULDN'T PUT THEM IN OUR RANDOM SAMPLE, BUT THEY WOULD DEFINITELY BE VALUABLE THINGS FOR US TO, UH, TO THINK ABOUT.
AND THEN A, A QUICK QUESTION, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A LONG ANSWER, BUT ARE YOU, UM, KALEEN ALSO THE CONSULTANT THAT WOULD, UM, POINT OUT OR CRAFT KIND OF THE PILLARS OF WHAT MARKETING OUTREACH WOULD LOOK LIKE? BECAUSE AS EVERYONE THAT'S BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT HAS SAID, SHIFTING THE CULTURE IN THIS TOWN IS A MASSIVE HEAVY LIFT AND IT, IT NEEDS TO GET MOVING, UM, UH, UH, AND A REALLY DEEP LEVEL OR TAPPED INTO ON A DEEP LEVEL SO THAT ULTIMATELY WHATEVER MARKETING PROGRAM IS LAUNCHED, IT WILL BE, UM, A SUFFICIENT, UH, OPERATING ON SUFFICIENT LEVERS.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, ONGOING COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE OF PETALUMA ABOUT THE VALUE OF THE URBAN FOREST.
OTHERWISE THE FOREST WILL JUST KEEP ERODING OVER TIME, EVEN WITH RELIEF'S.
SO THAT IS DEFINITELY A COMPONENT OF OUR PROPOSAL WAS TO CRAFT A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PLAN THAT WOULD GO FORWARD OUTSIDE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR THIS PROPOSAL, I MEAN, FOR, FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
UM, ANY OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS? QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? ROGER? UM, ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH, UM, THE CHICO FORCE MANAGEMENT PLAN? UM, A LITTLE BIT, YEAH.
UH, WELL, I GUESS THE QUESTION, HOW DOES THAT DIFFER FROM THE FRESNO PLAN THAT YOU'RE INVOLVED IN? I'M NOT, COULD YOU GIVE, UH, TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING THERE? WELL, THE QUE CHICO HAS HAD A SINCE 18 SOMETHING CITY INVOLVEMENT IN TREES.
THEY OWN THE TREES, THEY MAINTAIN THE TREES.
FRESNO, I'M NOT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR POLICY IS.
PETALUMA DOES NOT OWN THE TREES.
IT'S MOSTLY PRIVATE PROPERTY TREES EXCEPT FOR CITY, DOWNTOWN AND, AND PARKS.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S THE NATURE OF THE ANIMAL YOU'RE DEALING WITH, UM, AND WHAT THE RESULT OF YOUR STUDY MIGHT BE IN TERMS OF A FOREST MANAGEMENT TEAM, UH, RESPONSIBILITY DEFINITION, FUNDING FOR STREET TREES OR REPLACEMENT TREES.
WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS THAT YOU HOPE TO END UP WITH IN A, IN A MASTER PLAN? I, I FEEL LIKE THAT, UM, THAT QUESTION I'LL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU A SOLID ANSWER TO WHEN WE FINISH WITH THE URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA WORK ON FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
UM, AND I'M, I'M SAYING THAT SLIGHTLY LIGHTHEARTEDLY BECAUSE THE ONE, THE ONE YOU QUESTION YOU STARTED WITH WHO SHOULD OWN THE TREES ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY IS A HUGE AND COMPLICATED ONE.
I, UH, SPENT 10 YEARS IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SAT ON THE SAN FRANCISCO URBAN FOREST COUNCIL, WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE, OF THIS, OF YOUR GROUP HERE.
UM, AND THAT WAS AN ENORMOUS AND CHALLENGING DECISION.
EVENTUALLY, SAN FRANCISCO DID DECIDE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TREES IN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, BUT IT WAS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE.
UM, MAINLY THAT'S THE BIGGEST HURDLE, RIGHT? SO THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY WILL BE THE ONES THAT WILL HAVE TO HELP US FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PRIORITY IS, IS THE PRIORITY FOR THE CITY TO TAKE CONTROL OF THOSE TREES AT THE COST THAT IT, AT WHATEVER COST IT WILL END UP BEING.
FIGURING THAT OUT IS A PART OF THIS PROCESS.
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BILL? UH, YEAH, WELL, I GUESS I'D LOVE TO HEAR A LITTLE MORE ABOUT LIKE, UH, HOW, UM, YEAH, THE, HOW, YEAH.WHAT WE CAN EXPECT AS A COMMUNITY FROM THIS MANAGEMENT PLAN DOWN THE ROAD.
UH, I GUESS THAT'S, YEAH, THAT, UH, QUESTION, YOU KNOW, WHO OWNS THE TREES IS A, IS A BIG ONE.
UM, I GUESS, UH, I DON'T HAVE A REALLY GOOD QUESTION FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT, UH, I, I'M WONDERING LIKE IN YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH OTHER, UM, THE CITY OF OAKLAND OR OTHER COMMUNITIES, UM, HAVE YOU SEEN A, THAT TYPE OF SHIFT, UH, HAPPEN WITH THE URBAN FORESTRY PLAN? UM, I GUESS YOU, YOU, YOU MENTIONED SAN FRANCISCO DOING THAT.
UM, YEAH, I GUESS I THINK, YEAH, THAT IS ONE WHERE I THINK YOU COULD FIND AN EXAMPLE OF ANY OF THE MANY COMBINATIONS.
WE CAN FIND THOSE THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL DO IS PULL TOGETHER THOSE EXAMPLES TO GIVE YOU AND PEOPLE OF PETALUMA AN IDEA OF THE PROS AND CONS OF EACH PATHWAY.
UM, ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S PROBLEMS WAS ABOUT, ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THE TREES ON THE STREETS BELONGED TO THE CITY, AND TWO THIRDS BELONGED TO THE PROPERTY, BUT NOBODY KNEW WHICH ONES THEY WERE.
IT WASN'T LIKE, THERE WAS NO RHYME OR REASON TO IT, IT WAS JUST ABOUT SOME WEIRD PERIOD OF TIME WHERE THE, THE JURISDICTION HAD SHIFTED.
SO WE NEED TO DIG IN AND UNDERSTAND, AND, AND WE ARE REALLY, ARE, THIS WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO YOU.
WE HAVE LITERALLY JUST GOTTEN STARTED IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, SO FIGURING OUT WHAT WE HAVE AND HOW WE MIGHT GO FORWARD.
SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT OUR, OUR RANDOM SAMPLE INVENTORY WILL ANSWER FOR US, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE ARBORIST IS COLLECTING DATA ON IS THE, UH, PRIORITY TREE MAINTENANCE NEED.
SO LET'S JUST IMAGINE A SCENARIO THAT COMES BACK THAT 30% OF ALL OF THOSE STREET TREES NEED SIGNIFICANT PRUNING IN ORDER TO BECOME HEALTHY AND SAFE.
THAT IS THE KIND OF THING THAT MIGHT CHANGE OUR OPINION ABOUT WHO WE WANT TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE TREES.
SO BEFORE WE MAKE THOSE KINDS OF DECISIONS, I THINK WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE WE STAND, UM, BUT WE WILL PREVE PRESENT AS A PART OF THE PROCESS, THE ALTERNATIVES.
HERE'S, HERE'S, YOU KNOW, SORT OF WHAT IT WOULD COST IF THE CITY TOOK CONTROL.
HERE'S WHAT IT WOULD COST IF, IF WE DID SOMETHING KIND OF LIKE THAT, BUT NOT EXACTLY THE SAME.
MAYBE THE CITY TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOME OF THE CARE, UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA, WE'LL, THE GATHER THE DATA FIRST, COME UP WITH SCENARIOS AND THEN DECIDE TOGETHER WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE.
IT, IT SOUNDS JUST FROM THIS CONVERSATION, LIKE THAT FEELS LIKE A HIGH PRIORITY.
UM, AND MAYBE IT WILL END UP BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, BUT BEFORE WE GET THERE, WE, WE SHOULD SEE WHAT WE'VE GOT AND, UM, TALK ABOUT WHY WE WANNA DO THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE'RE GETTING OUT OF IT IS WHAT WE WANNA GET OUT OF IT.
OH, THAT, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL.
YEAH, I THINK IT IS A VERY HIGH PRIORITY TO FIGURE OUT AND, AND TO HAVE THAT UNDERLYING ANALYSIS WILL HELP GUIDE, UH, GUIDE THAT DECISION.
I, I HOPE, AND YEAH, JUST AS YOU PROBABLY ARE DIGGING IN, FINDING OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR MODEL IS, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, IN MY OPINION, UM, YOU KNOW, HAS PROVI, IT'S, YOU KNOW, RESULTED IN WHAT I THINK A CANOPY COVERAGE AROUND 13%.
SO, UM, AND I THINK OF A THRIVING URBAN FOREST OF CANOPY COVERAGE BEING AROUND 30%.
SO I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A PRETTY BIG GAP AND THAT OUR MODEL REALLY ISN'T WORKING VERY WELL AS IT IS, SO.
I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE, UM, YOUR INVOLVEMENT.
I, I, WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO GET STARTED TOO.
AND I'LL SAY TOO, THE FACT THAT THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THOSE TREES, OR THE FACT THAT THE CITY ISN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR, FOR MAINTAINING THEM DOES NOT ABSOLVE THE CITY FOR RESPONSIBILITY IN CASE IF SHOULD ONE OF THEM CAUSE AN INJURY OR DAMAGE TO A VEHICLE OR DAMAGE TO A HOUSE.
SO YOU'RE SORT OF STUCK IN A PLACE WHERE YOU'RE NOT TAKING CARE OF THEM, BUT IF BAD THINGS HAPPEN, IT'S STILL YOUR PROBLEM.
SO, UM, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A BIG COMPONENT OF MAKING THAT CHOICE TOO.
BUT QUESTION BILL, UH, ROGER, YOU HAD A QUICK FOLLOW UP AND I WANNA REMIND EVERYONE, WE DO HAVE TO DISCUSS, UH, WHAT MEMBER WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THE WORKING GROUP FROM TAC.
UH, BUT ROGER, IF YOU HAD A QUICK FOLLOW UP ON THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO BE, UM, I, I AM MORE OF A URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK, LESS AND LESS OF A CLIMATE, UH, BIAS, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO PARTICIPATE.
WELL, AND I WILL LOOK FOR ANY OTHER GENERAL COMMENTS WHILE WE'VE GOT OUR CONSULTANT,
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BEFORE WE MOVE INTO NOMINATIONS AND SELECTING A MEMBER AND SEEING NO ONE WITH MORE QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME, REMEMBER, PLEASE DO EMAIL THEM AND BE INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS.EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A REPRESENTATIVE, THEN I WILL MOVE US TO, UM, DISCUSSING OUR, WHO WE WANT FROM TAC TO BE OUR MEMBER ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND WE HAVE, ROGER HAS ALREADY PUT HIMSELF FORWARD.
THAT, THAT WAS REALLY MY SO SINGLE QUESTION ACTUALLY TO THE CONSULTANT WAS WHAT BACKGROUND ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? IS THERE A PARTICULAR, UM, YOU KNOW, PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND COMPETENCY THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE GREAT ON THE WORKING GROUP? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER MEMBERS YET BECAUSE WE'VE GOT EVERYONE HERE PASSIONATE ABOUT TREES, BUT SOME FOLKS HAVE WORKED IN A PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY AND THEN DIFFERENT LEVELS THEREIN.
SO A ANY, YOU KNOW, CORE COMPETENCY OR SKILLSET YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ON THE WORKING GROUP? UM, LEMME TELL YOU WHO WE HAVE SO FAR.
WE'VE GOT BEN ANDERSON WHO WILL SERVE AS FROM THE ARBOR CULTURAL BACKGROUND.
WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CITY EMPLOYEES.
UH, DREW HALTER WILL BE JOINING US.
I'M HOPING TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO CAN REPRESENT THE PLANNING BACKGROUND.
UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE, UH, MEMBERS FROM RELIEF PETALUMA, SO THERE'S NO OBVIOUS GAP THERE IN MY MIND.
UM, WHAT ABOUT PUBLIC WORKS, WHICH ACCORDING TO EVERY CITY WE'VE INTERVIEWED URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT? ABSOLUTELY.
100% NEEDS TO LIVE IN PUBLIC WORKS ELSE IT WILL FAIL.
PARDON MY STRONG LANGUAGE THERE.
LET ME GET BACK TO MY LIST AND SEE WHAT I HAD THERE.
I THINK, YEAH, MUST HAVE SOMEBODY IN THERE, UM, MAYBE KENT CARUTHERS OR BJORN OR SOMEBODY ELSE.
BUT KENT WAS THE ONE THAT WAS ON MY LIST AND I, I HAVE NOT SENT AN EMAIL TO HIM YET, BUT HE, HE WAS THE NAME THAT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED TO ME.
SO I CAN CONTINUE WITH, I WILL CONTINUE WITH THAT IF YOU THINK THAT'S A YEAH, JUST, UH, IS A GOOD, BUT YES, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
UM, YEAH, WE'VE INTERVIEWED THE BEST TREE CITIES IN CALIFORNIA, INCLUDING CHICO, PALO ALTO, UH, PACIFIC GROVE.
WE'VE STUDIED SACRAMENTO, ROCKLAND.
SO THERE IS A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE HERE, UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH, UM, AD HOC THAT WE'VE ESTABLISHED, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
THANK YOU TARYN, FOR THAT FOLLOW UP AND A GOOD RECOMMENDATION OF WHO CAN BE ON THAT TEAM OUTSIDE OF OUR GROUP.
BUT NOW COMING BACK TO OUR GROUP, UM, PLEASE, ARE WE RECOMMENDING TWO PEOPLE, ONE FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND THEN ONE FOR URBAN FOREST? WE'RE, WE'RE NOT.
SO FOR CLIMATE ACTION, WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING A FORMAL MEMBER.
I THINK PART OF THAT DISCUSSION WITH DEB WAS THAT EVERYBODY FROM THIS COMMITTEE COULD SHOW UP TO THEIR PUBLIC MEETINGS AND PROVIDE INPUT.
AND OF COURSE, AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS YOU CAN ALWAYS EMAIL INPUT, UH, BECAUSE DEB GAVE OUT HER EMAIL ADDRESS, YOU KNOW, NEVER HESITATE TO DO THAT.
SO WE'RE ONLY LOOKING FOR ONE MEMBER TO PUT FORWARD FORMALLY AS PART OF THIS WORKING GROUP FOR THE URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN.
UM, AND IN HEARING THE STATEMENT FROM OUR CONSULTANT, YOU KNOW, I THINK ROGER DOES HAVE PLANNING BACKGROUND, HAS WORKED PROFESSIONALLY WITH TREES AND LANDSCAPES, SO THAT IS A GREAT CANDIDATE TO PUT FORWARD.
UM, BUT I'M LOOKING FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS INTEREST OR WOULD LIKE TO PUT THEMSELVES FORWARD OR WHO WANTS TO NOMINATE OR RECOMMEND ANYONE.
AND OF COURSE WE HAVE HOWARD FORMBY WHO ISN'T AT THIS MEETING, BUT YOU COULD RECOMMEND HIM AS WELL.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED, DARREN? UM, I, FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF SOMEONE ON A TREE COMMITTEE WHO LOVES URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT, YES.
UM, DO I THINK THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO MAY HAVE EVEN MORE OF A WORKING GRASP OF THE ISSUES AT HAND AND A LITTLE MORE EXPERIENCE TO BE THAT MEMBER? UM, I DO.
SO I LIKED THAT ROGER CAME FORWARD.
UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT EBERLY.
THANK YOU FOR PLANTING THAT SEED.
MARYANNE, YOU WERE ABOUT TO, I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE ROGER.
I MEAN, I'LL SECOND THE NOMINATION.
UH, DO WE HAVE, WE HAVE TO HAVE A FORMAL VOTE YES.
BECAUSE THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM, PLEASE.
WELL THEN WE HAVE A SECOND FOR A NOMINATION OF ROGER AND HE'S ALREADY NOMINATED OR BROUGHT HIMSELF FORWARD.
SO I ASSUME YOU, CAN I MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? MM-HMM
CAN WE HA CAN WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE PERSON CAN KELA, CAN WE HAVE DARREN AND ROGER BECAUSE THEY'VE WORKED TOGETHER ON THE AD HOC AND THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER REALLY COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER.
UM, I WAS KIND OF THE THIRD WHEEL ON THAT AD HOC OR AM, UM, BUT I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET MASSIVE BANG
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FOR YOUR BUCK WITH BOTH OF THEM.I THINK THAT KEEPS US WITH STILL WITHIN A NUMBER THAT I'M COMFORTABLE WITH.
UM, AND I FEEL LIKE WE, I'VE ALREADY, I FEEL LIKE I'VE ALREADY LEARNED A LOT FROM THIS ORGANIZATION, SO HAVING TWO PEOPLE FROM YOUR, FROM YOUR GROUP SOUNDS LIKE IT WOULD BE GREAT.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'LL MAKE YOUR LIFE A A LOT EASIER.
ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU FOR THE CREATIVE SUGGESTION, TARYN.
CINDY, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE HAVE TO CONSIDER THERE? CAN WE NOMINATE TWO PEOPLE GIVEN THE WILLINGNESS OF THE CONSULTANT? SURE.
UM, I WOULD SAY YOU SHOULD ASK THE NOMINATOR IF THEY'RE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO MOVE IT FORWARD.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ON TRACK HERE, CINDY.
OKAY, WELL THEN WE HAVE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
SO NOW IT WOULD BE ROGER AND MYSELF ON THE URBAN FORESTRY, UH, MASTER PLAN WORKING GROUP.
I GUESS I WILL ASK FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE FROM OUR CLERK, EWING.
NOW WE HAD OUR VOTE, BUT I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM ON THE URBAN FOREST.
UM, MASTER PLAN WORKING GROUP WILL OUR ONE MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC, IF HE'S INTERESTED IN COMMENTING, YOU CAN, UH, COME TO THE, TO THE PODIUM AND HAVE A THREE MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
UM, AND I'M SEEING YOU STEP UP TO THE PLATE.
UH, AND BEFORE HE STARTS, CLERK, DO WE HAVE ANYONE ONLINE POSTING COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE? NO, WE DID NOT.
THEN WE'LL GO RIGHT INTO PUBLIC COMMENT WITH OUR FIRST SPEAKER.
I JUST WANTED TO THANK, UM, UH, COLLEEN FOR THE PRESENTATION AND JUST AWESOME TO HAVE, HAVE, UH, COLLEEN ON BOARD IS SUPER EXPERT AND REALLY FUN TO WORK WITH.
SO JUST THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK AND UH, FOR THE TEAM TO GET US THIS FAR IS GREAT.
UM, TREES ARE A FUNDAMENTAL MUNICIPAL ASSET.
I MEAN, THEY REALLY ARE FUNDAMENTAL, UH, TO THIS TOWN AND ALL TOWNS.
IT'S JUST GREAT TO SEE US AT THIS PLACE.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYBODY HERE THAT WE'RE HERE.
UM, IN DISCUSSIONS WITH WENDY, WITH THE RELIEF I WAS UNDER, UNDER UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, RELIEF WAS HELPING DEVELOPING THE, UM, STRUCTURE OF THE FORCE MANAGEMENT JOB PLAN IN, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY, WHAT'S NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY, UM, WHAT'S THE SYSTEM? HOW'S IT SET UP? IS THAT, ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THAT WITH RELIEF OR NO? UH, ONLY SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR.
UM, THERE'S BEEN CONVERSATIONS FOR THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE BEEN WITH RELIEF, UM, A NUMBER OF YEARS, UH, ABOUT URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT.
AND SO THERE'S BEEN A WHOLE VARIETY OF, UM, CONVERSATIONS SORT OF CUTTING ACROSS THE PUBLIC, UH, AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, CITY AND SO FORTH.
UM, SO, UH, NOTHING AND I KNOW THAT'S LIKE SO COHESIVE IS WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT HERE.
UM, BUT YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S, THIS PROJECT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO OUR HEARTS, PARTICULARLY AT RELIEF PETALUMA.
UM, AND FROM MY EXPOSURE TO THE CONVERSATIONS TO A GREAT MANY PEOPLE HERE.
WELL I'M GLAD I GAVE SOME LATITUDE 'CAUSE THAT WAS A NICE UNDERLINED AND EMPHASIS ON THAT ITEM.
SO YES, THANK YOU COLLEEN, FOR ALL YOUR GREAT WORK SO FAR.
AND THANK YOU TO CINDY FOR BRINGING THIS PRESENTATION FORWARD.
UH, AND THANK YOU TO OUR COMMENTER.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE THAT PUBLIC HEARING AND MATTER FOR CONSIDERATION.
UH, AND I KNOW FOR OUR AD HOCS THERE'S PROBABLY A LOT OF ACTIVITY TO REPORT ON, BUT WE'LL TRY TO GIVE THE 10,000 FOOT VIEW BECAUSE WE ARE ALMOST AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
UH, SO NUMBER FOUR IS A STREET TREE AD HOC COMMITTEE PROGRESS UPDATE.
AND I WILL LOOK TO EVERLY FOR ANY UPDATES ON THAT FRONT.
UH, YEAH, SO THE LAST MEETING IN NOVEMBER, WE BROUGHT THE NEW REVISED LIST AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT, IF ANYONE HAD ANY COMMENTS ON IT.
UM, I'VE GONE THROUGH THE CITY LOOKING AT THE LOCATIONS THAT WERE LISTED AND UPDATING THOSE.
SO I THINK WE'RE ALL, JUST ALL WE'RE FINISHED WITH IT.
WE ADDED A FEW MORE TREES JUST BECAUSE GOING AROUND PETALUMA SAW THAT THESE TREES WERE ALREADY BEING PLANTED AND WERE DOING WELL.
SO ONE OF THOSE WAS MA AND, AND THE OTHER ONE WAS PAULO VERDE, WHICH IS A CALIFORNIA NATIVE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S JUST A LITTLE TINY SECTION OF THE MOJAVE DESERT.
BUT THEY'S, THEY, THEY'RE PINED DOWN AT THE JC AND, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE KIND OF A, A NEAT ADDITION AND OF COURSE SUPER ADAPTED TO HOT DRY CLIMATES.
UH, RELEAF HAD BROUGHT THEIR ALTERNATE LIST AND UM, HOWARD WANTED ME TO BRING TO THE MEETING THAT, UM, WE DON'T THINK THOSE ARE SUITABLE FOR AS STREET TREES.
THEY WERE, UM, THERE THEY INCLUDED ALDERS AND WILLOW AND
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UM, UH, WELL THERE WERE VARIOUS OAKS WHICH ARE ALREADY ON THE LIST, BUT UM, SOME SHRUBS AND BASICALLY HIGH HIGH WATER USERS, UM, THAT ARE SUITED TO RIPARIAN SETTINGS OF RELIEF WAS DOING A REHABILITATION OF A, A RIPARIAN AREA.AND THEY'RE BE GREAT TREES, BUT NOT FOR THE STREET ALONG.
STREETS JUST AREN'T GONNA SURVIVE.
THEY AREN'T GONNA MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY IN THE LONG TERM.
WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE AND I GUESS A LITTLE BIT OF HOMEWORK FOR US TO MAKE SURE WE'RE UPDATED ON THE LIST AND GIVING ANY FEEDBACK NOW WHILE IT'S STILL PERTINENT.
UH, SO FOR THAT ITEM WE CAN, DID WE, DID WE ALL GET A COPY OF THAT LIST? WAS THAT SENT OUT TO EVERYBODY? WELL, IT WAS IN THE, THE MINUTES OR IT WAS, IT WAS PART OF THE, THE, UM, THE PACKAGE FROM NOVEMBER.
PART OF OUR LAST MEETING, BUT UH, IF YOU REACH OUT TO CATHERINE WE COULD PROBABLY RECIRCULATE THAT.
SO IF WE NEED THAT LIST, 'CAUSE I WILL PROBABLY DO THAT.
MARYANNE, UH, WE CAN REACH OUT TO CATHERINE FOR, FOR THE MOST UPTODATE VERSION.
DO WE NEED PUBLIC COMMENT ON OUR AD HOC UPDATES? OKAY.
WELL THEN, UH, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMITTEE QUESTIONS? FOLLOW UP ON STREET TREES THEN I WILL MOVE US TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENTER, HE'S NOT RACING TO GIVE US SPEAKER CARD, SO I WILL ASSUME WE HAVE NO, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS IN THE AUDIENCE.
UH, I'LL ASK OUR CLERK IF WE HAD ANY, UH, ONLINE COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
WITH THAT I WILL CLOSE ITEM NUMBER FOUR AND MOVE INTO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, OUR ARBOR DAY AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE PROGRESS UPDATE.
UH, AND THAT COMMITTEE CONSISTS OF MYSELF, ROGER, AND MARYANNE.
I WAS AT THE MOST RECENT MEETING, SO I'LL GIVE AN UPDATE.
AND, AND CINDY, SHE'S BASICALLY PART OF THE TEAM SHE'S AT EVERY MEETING.
UM, SO I WILL GIVE A QUICK UPDATE HERE.
SO LAST YEAR WE HAD OUR TREE FEST, UH, AROUND ARBOR DAY.
AND THIS YEAR, AS DEB HAD MENTIONED IN HER PRESENTATION, THAT HAS BECOME PART OF A LARGER CITY FUTURE FEST.
AND SO THAT IS ENCOMPASSING A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE COOL PETALUMA, UM, LIKE OUR CLIMATE COMMITTEE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS, DAILY ACTS, RELIEF ARE GONNA BE INVOLVED.
A TREE COMMITTEE WILL GET TO BE PART OF THAT.
SO IT'S GONNA BE KIND OF THE TREE FEST WITHIN THE BROADER FUTURE FEST.
AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE, THIS IS ALL GONNA TAKE PLACE ON MAY 4TH, 2024 AT THE LUCCHESE CENTER AND IT'S GONNA BE THE WHOLE CENTER, THE INSIDE, THE OUTSIDE.
AND THAT IS WHERE OUR TREE COMMITTEE IS GONNA BE.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN OUTSIDE AREA AND MUCH LIKE THE EVENT FOR ANYONE WHO ATTENDED LAST YEAR, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING KIND OF WORK, MUSIC, FOOD.
SO THAT MEANS MULCHING TREES THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
AND A LOT OF THIS HAS YET TO BE KIND OF FORMALLY TIED DOWN, BUT MULCHING TREES THAT ARE AVAILABLE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, SOME KIND OF ART THERE.
UH, PROBABLY A MURAL LIKE LAST YEAR, MAYBE SOME OTHER OPTIONS AS WELL.
UH, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO THINK OF SOME GREAT PRESENTATIONS, ROLLING WORKSHOPS THAT WE COULD BE GIVING.
THIS IS SOMETHING I HOPE TO REACH OUT TOLE ABOUT 'CAUSE THEY'RE THE NATURAL PARTNER FOR ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO DEMONSTRATING TREE PLANTING, WATERING KIND OF BEST PRACTICES.
UH, SO WE'RE GONNA THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN BE PART OF FUTURE FEST AS A TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPRESENTING THE WORK WE DO HERE AND ALSO KIND OF GIVING PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, FAMILIES AND PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO SHOW UP TO ENGAGE AND WORK WITH TREES AND TOUCH TREES AND UH, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY HAVE FUN.
THAT WAS THE DISCUSSION AT THE LAST MEETING.
SO IF WE CALL IT A FEST, IT HAS TO HAVE FUN AND I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GONNA GET TO BE, DO A BIG PART OF THAT.
UM, SO THAT'S MY KIND OF UPDATE.
CINDY, UH, MARYANNE, ROGER, IF YOU GUYS WANNA ADD ANYTHING? NO, I THINK YOU HIT IT ON THE HEAD.
JUST KNOW THAT I'LL PROBABLY NEXT MONTH BE BRINGING THE FORMAL ITEM TO THE COMMITTEE TO ADOPT THAT AS OUR OFFICIAL APA DAY FOR THE YEAR.
SO IF THERE IS ANY FEEDBACK IN THE SHORT TERM THAT YOU HAVE, IF YOU WANNA SEND THAT TO ME OR TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS SO THAT WE'RE PREPPED FOR NEXT MONTH, WE'D APPRECIATE IT.
AND YOU JUST REMINDED ME AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, FINANCIAL ASPECT OF PUTTING TOGETHER AN EVENT AND I THINK SOME OF THAT HAS TO BE IRONED OUT.
I THINK THE IMPRESSION WAS THE DIFFERENT GROUPS INVOLVED WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FUNDING KIND OF THEIR PORTION.
UH, SO WE JUST WANT TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
SO WE MAY, UH, AS AN AD HOC ONE GET TOGETHER ACTIVITIES, BUDGETS AND FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW WE, HOW WE TAKE CARE OF THAT.
SO THERE'S THAT ASPECT OF PLANNING THAT WE WILL NEED TO FIGURE OUT AND PROBABLY PRESENT TO THIS GROUP, UM, AS IT BECOMES RELEVANT.
SO THAT'S MY SPIEL AND CINDY'S ADDED ON.
ANY COMMENTS TARAN? YEAH, SO, UM, UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ARBOR DAY TREE FEST BEING ROLLED INTO FUTURE FEST.
IT WILL BE PART OF, AND WE WILL ACTUALLY HAVE OUR LOGO ON THE FUTURE FEST.
SO IT WILL SAY TREE FEST AND THE THOUGHT PROCESS BEHIND THIS WAS, IN THE FUTURE, IF THERE
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IS NO FUTURE FEST OR IF TREE FEST IS ON A DIFFERENT DATE OR THERE IS, IT'S KIND OF MAINTAINING ITS OWN INDEPENDENT IDEA AS AN EVENT.SO IT'S JUST PIGGYBACKING THIS YEAR, PIGGYBACKING THIS YEAR TO COMBINE WITH ALL THE OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS TO KIND OF AMPLIFY ALL OF IT AND SEE IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BECOME, YOU KNOW, A STAPLE OF THE EVENT CALENDAR AND HOW WE CAN BE INVOLVED IN THAT.
UM, WOULDN'T IT MAKE MORE SENSE IN MY THINKING TO HAVE A PRESENTATION ON WHAT FUTURE FEST IS? BECAUSE IF IT'S LIKE CLIMATE EXPO, IT'S SUCH A POOR FIT FOR TREE FEST AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS DECISION IS MADE WHEN WE HAVEN'T EVEN DISCUSSED IT, LET ALONE VOTED ON IT BECAUSE, UM, BUT I'LL JUST SAY THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY BAD IDEA TO ME FROM A BRANDING STANDPOINT AND FROM A CULTURAL STANDPOINT.
I'VE PARTICIPATED IN CLIMATE EXPO AND UM, I FIND IT TO BE, UM, ABSOLUTELY THE OPPOSITE END OF THE SPECTRUM FROM WHAT A COMMUNITY EVENT CAN BE COMPARED TO TREE FEST.
AND I HEAR YOUR POINT, AND I DON'T WANT TO INTERRUPT ANYONE'S DISCUSSION ON THIS, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID IN MY EXPLANATION, PART OF THIS IS TREE FEST WILL BE, WILL, WILL BE HAVE OUR OWN, I DON'T WANNA CALL IT JURISDICTION, BUT OUR OWN AREA.
WE WILL BE BRINGING KIND OF WHAT TREE FEST WAS TO THIS EVENT.
SO THIS IDEA IS IT'S, IT'S AN AMALGAM OF SOME DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT MIGHT HAVE KIND OF A DIFFERENT TENOR TO THEM BECAUSE RIGHT CLIMATE EXPO, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE WORKSHOPS INDOORS AND ROOMS WITH PEOPLE HAVING SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS.
WE'RE GONNA BE OUTDOORS DOING EVENTS TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN, AS WE DID LAST YEAR, GET THEIR HANDS DIRTY, WHETHER IT'S TREE PLANTING, MULCHING COME DO ART COME.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO REPLICATE WHAT WE DID NOW AS PART OF THE GREATER EVENT.
AND I DON'T WANT TO MINIMIZE, UM, KIND OF YOUR CRITIQUE OF IT 'CAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
BUT, UM, I SAW IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN WHAT TREE FEST WAS AS PART OF A BROADER EVENT.
BUT IT'S SOMETHING I BROUGHT UP IN OUR LAST MEETING.
IT'S LIKE, LOOK, I DON'T WANT THIS TO GET SWALLOWED BY A BIGGER EVENT WHERE WE LOSE MAYBE THE, THE THING THAT MADE TREE FEST UNIQUE AND SPECIAL THAT WE REALLY LIKED.
UM, AND THERE I THINK EVERYBODY'S KIND OF COGNIZANT OF THAT AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE WERE VERY IMPRESSED, UM, INCLUDING OUR REPRESENTATIVE WITH PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS, WHO'S PART OF THIS WORKING GROUP.
WITH THIS BIGGER EVENT, REALLY ENJOYED WHAT WE DID AT TREE FEST WITH THIS GROUP WAS ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER.
HE WENT WITH HIS KIDS AND SAID LIKE, TH THAT WAS REALLY SPECIAL.
SO I THINK YEAH, WE'RE ALMOST TAKING ON A CHALLENGE TO KIND OF FACE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS HOW TO REPLICATE THAT ALONGSIDE GROUPS THAT ARE DOING EVENTS IN THE SAME BIG UMBRELLA OF LIKE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE, BUT ARE DOING SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE IT'S ON US AS AN AD HOC AND THEN COMING TO THIS COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THAT? WHAT IS OUR UNIQUE OFFERING AND HOW DO WE DO IT YEAH.
IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT.
WELL I APPRECIATE YOUR, UM, EXPLANATION AND AS SOMEBODY WHO WORKED FOR THE NUMBER ONE BRAND STRATEGY COMPANY ON THE PLANET, THIS IS JUST SUCH A BAD IDEA.
UM, WHAT YOU, WHAT WE ACHIEVED WITH TREE FEST IS JUST GONNA BE ERODED JUST BY EXISTING IN THE SAME PLOT OF LAND WITH, UH, CLIMATE EXPO.
SO, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSION ABOUT IT AND IT MAYBE NOBODY GETS IT.
UM, BUT IT'S UM, IT'S ALL ABOUT BRAND INTEGRITY AND, AND THE HEART OF UH, AND THE POWER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE BASED ON UM, WHAT WAS ACHIEVED IN TREE FEST.
WELL YOU PLANTED A SEED DEFINITELY FOR DISCUSSION WITHIN OUR AD HOC AND IF WE'RE BRINGING THIS ITEM TO A VOTE AT NEXT MONTH'S MEETING OF TREE COMMITTEE, UH, AND WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE TIME WE CAN EXPAND ON THIS DISCUSSION.
I WILL ASK QUICKLY IF ANYONE HERE, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A BIG TOPIC TERRENCE BROUGHT UP.
IF ANYONE HERE HAS ANY COMMENTS, QUICK ADD-ONS, LIKE YAY OR NAY.
ROGER, I, I, I UNDERSTAND TERRA'S CONCERNS AND I ALSO APPRECIATE YOUR ENTHUSIASM OF WHAT IT COULD BE, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF SPACE BETWEEN THE CUP AND THE LIP THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT.
UH, SO MY SUGGESTION IS WE SPEND A LITTLE MORE TIME ACTUALLY TRYING TO PLAN IT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S GONNA BE VERY DIFFICULT TO ENTERTAIN PEOPLE ALL DAY.
UH, I MEAN, HOW, HOW DO YOU DO THAT WITH PEOPLE COMING AND GOING AND HOW DO YOU GET A CONSISTENT MESSAGE? AND SO I I JUST THINK WE NEED TO THINK IT THROUGH FURTHER SO WE CAN FOCUS ON A, A SUCCESSFUL, UH, STRUCTURE.
BUT I, I GR I LIKE HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR WHAT IT COULD BE.
I JUST DON'T KNOW IF WE FIGURED OUT HOW TO ACHIEVE THAT.
DARREN, IF YOU DON'T MIND AND I'LL JUST ASK THE FULL COMMITTEE IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WANNA BREAK OFF AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND I WILL CHARGE THE AD HOC.
SO WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE THE SHIFT PRETTY QUICKLY TO MAKE AN ARBOR DAY EVENT HAPPEN AT THE SCALE OF A TREE
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FEST FOR THIS YEAR.SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND TIMING.
I KNOW I'M ALWAYS THAT PERSON THAT SAYS TIMELINE, BUT REALLY IF WE DON'T BRING THIS BACK TILL FEBRUARY, THAT MEANS MARCH IS WHEN YOU'RE ADOPTING, WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE MARCH TO APRIL, YOU HAVE A FEW WEEKS TO PLAN TREE FEST.
SO REALISTICALLY I JUST WANT YOU TO KEEP THAT AS WE HAVE THIS DISCUSSION MOVING FORWARD DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T SWITCH OR WE COULD ALSO NOT DO SOMETHING AT THE SCALE THAT WE DID LAST YEAR AND SCALE BACK TO WHAT WE USED TO DO FOR THE YEAR IF THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME.
BUT JUST KEEP ALL THESE THINGS IN MIND AS THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSES IT.
WELL, YEAH AND IT SOUNDS LIKE UM, WE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS FORWARD IN DECEMBER WHEN SOME OF THIS IS COALESCING, BUT I GUESS IN THE MEANTIME I DON'T WANT TO ASK ANYONE TO MAKE A VOTE RIGHT NOW UNLESS PEOPLE FEEL STRONGLY.
UH, BUT I WOULD SAY PLEASE SUBMIT FEEDBACK.
WOULD THAT BE APPROPRIATE TO SUBMIT FEEDBACK AS A COMMITTEE MEMBER IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON THIS, CONCERNS ON THIS? UH, AND LET'S FIGURE IT OUT BECAUSE BY NEXT MEETING WE WILL NEED TO HAVE A FIRMLY DECIDED ARE WE SUBMIT FEEDBACK TO TO EACH OTHER? NOT TO EACH OTHER.
WELL AND THE SAFEST THING I THINK ALWAYS, AND THIS IS A GOOD PSA IS ALWAYS TO SUBMIT FEEDBACK TO CINDY AND CATHERINE AND THEN BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY BROWN ACTOR QUORUM ISSUES THEY CAN DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE.
BUT THE AD HOC IS MYSELF, ROGER, AND MARIANNE.
SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO INCLUDE US, LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS.
LET'S TRY TO GET AN IDEA OF CONSENSUS.
SO BY NEXT MEETING WE HAVE FIRMLY DECIDED YAY OR NAY BECAUSE WE HAVE STARTED PLANNING THIS DIRECTION.
BUT IF THERE'S NOT THE WILL TO DO THAT ON TREE COMMITTEE, THAT'S A BIG ISSUE AND WE NEED TO PRETTY QUICKLY CHANGE, CHANGE DIRECTION.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP.
THIS IS THE TIME, THIS IS THE ONLY TIME TO DO IT.
IT IS DURING, DURING UPDATES AS WE'RE PLANNING EVERYTHING.
UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT I WILL ASK FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTERS IN THE AUDIENCE.
OUR LOAN AUDIENCE MEMBER IS SAYING NAY.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE MEETING CLERK? NO.
SO WITH THAT I WILL CLOSE ITEM NUMBER FIVE, NOT CLOSED FOREVER.
I'M SURE THERE'LL BE A LOT MORE DISCUSSION BUT WE'LL CLOSE ITEM FIVE ON ARBOR DAY FOR NOW AND WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER SIX, AN UPDATE FROM OUR COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH AD HOC COMMITTEE.
UH, AND AS I WAS NOT PREPARED, I'LL ASK TARN IF SHE HAS ANY UPDATES.
UH, QUICK UPDATE AND UM, BILL, THIS IS FOR YOU.
UM, MIKE UH, REACHED OUT TO HIM THREE TIMES, HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM HIM, DUNNO WHAT HE'S GOING THROUGH.
I'M WONDERING IF YOU HAVE PERSONAL CONTACT WITH HIM, IF YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO WORK IT FROM YOUR ANGLE.
AND SO I DID SEE HIM BY CHANCE AND UH, WE LOOKED AT IT AGAIN AND I TOLD HIM THAT YEAH, YOU WOULD PROBABLY BE IN TOUCH AT SOME POINT BUT I DIDN'T.
MAYBE I GAVE, UM, MAYBE HE NEEDS TO CHECK HIS JUNK FOLDER.
SO MAYBE YOU CAN GIVE HIM THAT PROD.
IS THIS A CITIZEN OF THE TREE ISSUE THAT YOU GUYS ARE WORKING WITH THE HUGE TREES IN THE FRONT OF HIS HOUSE AND HE WANTS HELP BUT I THINK WE'RE MISSING HIM AND I DIDN'T WANNA HAVE TO REACH OUT TO BILL AS A FOURTH PERSON.
AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING I WILL SAY IS, UM, A WHOLE BUNCH OF TREES, I WANNA SAY 15 OF 'EM WERE CUT DOWN ALONG ABOUT A 50 YARD STRETCH IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS.
UM, TWO BACKYARDS AND IT'S CAUSED, UH, ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND IT'S CAUSED HORRENDOUS NOISE POLLUTION.
SO NEIGHBORS ARE REALLY UPSET IN THIS ONE STRETCH NEAR THE RIVER, KIND OF NEAR THE RIVER.
UM, BUT JUST TO, FOR EVERYONE TO BE AWARE THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET THIS UM, TREE ORDINANCE THAT HAS SOME TEETH TO IT, THAT WILL BE GREAT.
BUT ALSO KEEP IN MIND TREE BENEFIT, WHICH WE DON'T ALWAYS TALK ABOUT IS NOISE POLLUTION ABATEMENT.
DO ANY COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE ANY FOLLOW UP, QUICK QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THAT ITEM? NOT SEEING ANYONE.
I WILL MOVE THIS TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENT.
OUR IN-PERSON COMMENT HERE AGAIN IS SIGNALING I IS NOTHING TO CONTRIBUTE HERE.
I'LL ASK OUR CLERK IF WE HAD ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
THEN THAT CLOSES ITEM NUMBER SIX FOR THE COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH AD HOC.
THAT MOVES US INTO COMMITTEE COMMENT.
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I DO WANNA LEAVE SOME LITTLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR CINDY'S COMMENT ON STAFF COMMENT 'CAUSE I DO WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE TPO AND ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON.SO WE'LL JUST START WITH EBERLY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUICK UPDATES, COMMENTS, UH, ON ANYTHING PERTAINING TO THIS COMMITTEE, WHETHER IT'S LIAISONS OR AD HOCS? NOTHING.
UM, I HAVE NO UPDATES FROM PLANNING BECAUSE PLANNING HAS NOT MET, UH, SINCE OCTOBER.
UM, I I I'LL ASK WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLANNING AD HOC WAS, DID SOMETHING HAPPEN IN THE LAST MEETING? I WASN'T HERE.
WE WERE GONNA DO AN AD HOC OR SOMETHING FOR A TREE COMMITTEE AD HOC THAT WORKS WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION, REVIEWING PLANNING PROJECTS, THE DESIGN REVIEW AD HOC FOR PLANNING.
YEAH, I DID SEND AN EMAIL TO ANDREW CONNECTING THEM WITH THE AD HOC.
SO I, WE DIDN'T PUT THEM ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ENOUGH TIME FOR THEM TO PROVIDE ANY SUBSTANTIAL
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UPDATE AT THIS TIME.MAYBE WE, WE WILL GET THAT NEXT MONTH OR SOMETHING.
YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE TO, TO WORK ON THAT ONE.
CAN I ALSO ASK WHETHER YOU EVER GOT PAID FOR TREE FEST LAST YEAR?
LET'S MOVE FROM COMMITTEE COMMENT UNLESS ANYONE ELSE HAS ANYTHING TO JUMP IN AND ADD, THEN WE
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WILL MOVE DIRECTLY TO STAFF COMMENT.UH, AND CINDY, ANY UPDATES? SURE.
I ON THE TPO AND AS YOU GUYS KNOW, THAT'S BEING SPEARHEADED BY HEATHER AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
HEATHER DID BRING IT BACK TO THE TREE COMMITTEE.
THE TREE COMMITTEE AT THAT TIME HAD SAID ALL OF THEIR COMMENTS HAD BEEN INCORPORATED.
THE NEXT STEP WAS THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO PLANNING.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN IT AT PLANNING.
SO I'D GO TO PLANNING, I DO BELIEVE IT'S ON THE AGENDA PLANNER TO COME TO COUNCIL IN EARLY SPRING, MARCH.
SO I WOULD THINK THAT SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND THEN IT SHOULD GO TO PLANNING.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THE TPO IS SITTING.
SO AS FAR AS COMING BACK TO TREE, THEY INCORPORATE EVERYTHING THAT WE TOLD THEM WE WANTED.
AND IT FROM, UNLESS YOU GUYS HAVE FURTHER FEEDBACK, I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CHANGES OR ANY NEW DRAFTS.
SO I THINK THE WAY THAT WAS PRESENTED TO US IS WHERE IT'S SITTING.
UM, AND NEXT YOU SHOULD SEE IT AT PLANNING BOTH FOR ROGER AND YOU KNOW, UM, FOR DARREN.
UM, THOSE ARE JUST MY UPDATES.
YOU KNOW, THERE HAVE NOT BEEN MEETINGS WE'VE RENT COMMISSIONED, DID NOT MEET LAST MONTH, SO THERE'S NO UPDATES.
MARYANNE HAS NO UPDATES AND WITH THE HOLIDAYS THERE'S JUST NOT A LOT OF THINGS TO UPDATE YOU ON.
UM, AND JUST YEAH, MOVING FORWARD YOU'LL SEE THE AD HOC FOR THE PLANNING.
HOPEFULLY THE AD HOC WILL GET TO MEET WITH, UM, ANDREW AND MOVE THAT FORWARD.
SO, AND WE WILL LIKELY HAVE TO EXTEND THE DEADLINE ON THAT.
SO LOOK FOR THAT ON THE AGENDA NEXT TIME.
CINDY, CAN YOU UPDATE US PLEASE IF THERE HAVE BEEN ANY NEW STAFF HIRES SUCH AS PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTORS OR, UH, NEW PARKS MAINTENANCE PEOPLE? THANK YOU.
SO ON THE PUBLIC WORKS SIDE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS DID HERE, THEY DID SPLIT PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES.
THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS.
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS IS, HIS NAME IS PAUL.
AND THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES IS CHELSEA THOMPSON, WHO MANY OF YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH.
SHE WAS THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OUT AT ELLIS CREEK.
AND PRIOR TO THAT SHE WAS OUR WATER CONSERVATION MANAGER.
SO YOU HAVE TWO SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS ON THE PARK.
PARKSIDE, NO NEW HIRES CURRENTLY WE ARE IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
SO ONCE THAT FINALIZES I'LL BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE OUR, OUR NEW HIRE.
WE DO HAVE ONE PERSON COMING ON BOARD THOUGH, BUT THOSE ARE ALL THE NEW HIRES THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY.
GREAT QUESTION AND, AND GREAT UPDATE, CINDY.
UH, SO THAT WRAPS UP STAFF COMMENT AND THAT IS THE END OF OUR MEETING.
SO AT 5:08 PM I WILL ADJOURN THE MEETING.