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          [CALL TO ORDER]
GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME ON THIS, UH, EARLY START TIME, FIVE O'CLOCK. 
          APPRECIATE THE ROOM BEING FULL, UH, FOR THIS SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR MONDAY, MARCH 23RD, 2026. 
          UH, AS ALWAYS, IF YOU HAVE A COMMENT YOU WISH TO MAKE ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, AND TONIGHT'S AGENDA IS ONE ITEM, UM, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD, WHICH ARE LOCATED IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, AND BRING IT TO OUR CLERK WHO IS RIGHT HERE AT THE FRONT OF THE ROOM SO WE CAN INCLUDE YOU IN THE, UH, DIALOGUE THIS EVENING. 
          AND, UM, PLEASE NOTE THAT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, CONCURRENT TRANSLATION SERVICES AVAILABLE DURING THE MEETING, AND, UH, THAT'S IN SPANISH IN A VARIETY OF OTHER LANGUAGES. 
          AND TO ACCESS ONLINE, IF YOU'RE AT HOME, PLEASE USE THE LINK THAT'S IN THE AGENDA AND, UH, TO ACCESS THE TRANSLATION. 
          IF YOU'RE IN THE ROOM, WE HAVE A QR CODE ON THE BACK WALL THERE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SIGN INTO THE TRANSLATION SERVICES. 
          WITH THAT, LET'S MOVE TO OUR ROLL CALL FOR THE EVENING BARNACLE PRESENT. 
          PETER THOMPSON, HERE TO CARLY. 
          HERE. 
          NOW. 
          HERE. 
          QUINT HERE. 
          HERE MCDONALD HERE. 
          AND WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          LET'S STAND FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 
          I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          AND A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELL, TONIGHT WE 
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HAVE, UM, A WORKSHOP. 
          IT'S THE PRESENTATION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 SEVEN WORK PLAN. 
          IT'S AN UPDATE ON OUR RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND, UH, IT'S PROVIDING DIRECTION TO STAFF. 
          AND SO, UH, TONIGHT WE'LL HAVE OUR CITY MANAGER LEAD OFF. 
          THERE IS, I DO WANT TO NOTE TO THE PUBLIC THAT AS STAFF COMPLETES THE, THEIR PRESENTATION, WE'LL INVITE THE PUBLIC IN TO COMMENT AT THAT POINT AND THEN BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL FOR ALL OF OUR WORKSHOPPY DIALOGUE AT THAT POINT. 
          SO, WITH THAT, IT'S THE FLOOR IS YOURS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR, COUNCIL, COMMUNITY, AND OUR STAFF. 
          AS YOU KNOW, EACH YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL UNDERTAKES A GOAL SETTING PROCESS TO GUIDE PRIORITIES, INFORM STAFF WORK PLANS ALIGN WITH THE UPCOMING BUDGET TO SET PRIORITIES THAT REFLECT WHAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS MOST, AND ENSURE WE'RE DELIVERING REAL RESULTS. 
          SINCE 2019, THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN SHAPED BY OUR RESIDENTS, AND IT CONTINUES TO GUIDE HOW WE INVEST OUR TIME, ENERGY, AND RESOURCES. 
          OUR MISSION CONTINUES TO BE CLEAR, TO DELIVER EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES, IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE, AND SUPPORT A STRONG, RESILIENT ECONOMY RESPONSIBLY AND EFFICIENTLY. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING 24 7 SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY, OUR CITY STAFF ARE DAILY DELIVERING ON HUNDREDS OF INITIATIVES, PROGRAMS, AND PROJECTS AND POLICIES THAT ARE IN SUPPORT OF COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND THAT DON'T USUALLY GET THEIR MOMENT IN OUR GOAL SETTING, A LOT OF WORK IS REGULATORY REQUIRED BY LAW AND A RESPONSE TO TRENDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES THAT REQUIRE US TO BE AGILE STRATEGIC, WHILE BEING WELL REMAINING FOCUSED AND VIGILANT ON DELIVERING COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND BEING STRONG FISCAL STEWARDS. 
          TONIGHT, WE'LL REVIEW WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR AND TAKE A LOOK AT AHEAD AT POTENTIAL PRIORITIES SHAPED BY OUR COMMUNITY'S INPUT AND AVAILABLE RESOURCES. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO IN 2019 WHEN OUR CITY WAS AT A CROSSROADS. 
          WE HAD A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT OF SIX AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN 2021. 
          STAFFING LEVELS WERE 16% LOWER THAN THEY WERE IN 2008. 
          OUR SERVICES WERE MINIMAL AND NOT PROACTIVE OR RESPONSIVE. 
          OUR FLEET WAS NON-FUNCTIONAL AND UNABLE TO SUPPORT OUR STAFF'S WORK. 
          OUR PARKS, PLAYGROUND CITY FACILITIES WERE UNDER MAINTAINED AND IN SOME CASES UNUSABLE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX WAS 41 OUT OF A 100. 
          TECHNOLOGY WAS NON-EXISTENT. 
          YOU COULDN'T FIND A LAPTOP IN THE CITY, AND OUR SERVER AND BACKUP WERE ONE AND THE SAME. 
          IN ONE OF OUR PHYSICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY SESSIONS, WE PRESENTED AN EXCESS OF $200 MILLION OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE IN CITY INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH TOOK DECADES PRIOR OF DISINVESTMENT TO CREATE. 
          WE DID NOT LET WHAT WE INHERITED AFFECT OUR VISION AND DREAMS FOR OUR CITY, OUR RESIDENTS, AND OUR STAFF. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
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AND DESPITE OUR FRAGILE STATE, WE STEPPED UP AND SUPPORTED FIVE DECLARED EMERGENCIES. 
          IN TWO AND A HALF YEARS, WE WERE THE EVACUATION ZONE FOR THE COUNTY, AND WE STRENGTHENED OUR PREPAREDNESS MUSCLE AND BECAME THE RESILIENCY BEACON THROUGHOUT THESE EVENTS. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          IN 2019, WE HELD OUR FIRST COMMUNITY WIDE VISION SETTING. 
          250 OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS PROVIDE US WITH MORE THAN 250 PRIORITIES. 
          SO THAT'S ONE PER ONE PER COMMUNITY MEMBER, MANY OF WHICH HAVE WE HAVE COMPLETED AND WHICH CONTINUE TO REFLECT OUR HIGHEST PRIORITIES TODAY. 
          AND HEATHER, WOULD YOU PLEASE? GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL, UH, HEATHER HEINZ, SPECIAL PROJECT MANAGER. 
          I HAPPEN TO BE AT THE 2019 FIRST MEETING, UH, FIRST COMMUNITY MEETING WHERE WE DID THE GOAL SETTING, CREATED THESE LOVELY, UM, VISUALS. 
          UM, IT WAS AN AMAZING COMMUNITY MOMENT. 
          UH, I THINK WE WERE THERE SIX OR SEVEN HOURS. 
          UM, AND AS PEGGY MENTIONED, WE WALKED AWAY WITH 250 PLUS THINGS TO DO. 
          UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO BRING UP IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, THAT BOARD, THAT, UM, GRAPHIC, SO MANY OF THOSE VISIONS ARE STILL THE THINGS THAT WE FIND OURSELVES ALIGNED WITH TODAY, WHETHER IT'S SUSTAINABILITY OR CLIMATE INITIATIVES, HOUSING, INCLUSIVITY, HEALTHY AND ACTIVE LIVING. 
          I SEE THE ZONING CODE IS IN BOLD IN ONE OF THE BOTTOM CORNERS. 
          THOSE ALL CONTINUE TO BE THINGS THAT COME UP. 
          UM, AS WE HAVE COMMUNITY DISCUSSION. 
          THESE WERE ALL THINGS THAT CAME UP AS PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN, UM, PROCESS WHEN WE WENT OUT AND TALKED TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHERE THEY WANTED TO SEE THE COMMUNITY IN 25 YEARS. 
          UM, SO THIS WAS A MOMENT, UM, AND IT CONTINUES TO SHAPE WHAT WE DO AS STAFF, THE VISION WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS AS A COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WHEN WE DID GET THE 250, GO DO THESE, UM, WE LOOKED FOR A WAY TO ORGANIZE THEM, AND WE CAME UP WITH THESE FIVE GOALS. 
          A CITY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY, A SAFE COMMUNITY THAT THRIVES, AN ECONOMY THAT PROSPERS AND SPACES AND PLACES THAT INSPIRE. 
          SO EACH YEAR WHEN WE COME BACK TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION, WE LOOK BACK AT THESE GOALS AND DO, DO WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THINGS DIFFERENTLY? UM, DO WE NEED TO, UM, AMEND THESE, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO BE THESE OVERARCHING FOUNDATIONS, UM, THAT FIT WITH THE CONVERSATION WE HAVE. 
          SO WE WANTED TO START WITH TOUCHING ON THAT, TOUCHING ON KIND OF WHERE WE'VE COME SINCE 2019, UM, BEFORE WE GET INTO REFLECTING ON WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED IN THE PAST YEAR AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE COMING YEAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND NOW A BRIEF WALK DOWN CLIMATE ACTION MEMORY LANE. 
          UM, I WAS LOOKING JUST ON THE WALL RIGHT BACK THERE, UM, WAITING FOR THIS MEETING TO BEGIN AND SAW THE CLIMATE DECLARATION NOW AS ONE OF THE ACTIONS ON THERE. 
          AND SO THE CLIMATE RESOLUTION THAT THE COUNCIL PASSED IN 2019 WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF THAT COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          UM, DEFINITELY A HIGH PRIORITY FOR THE COMMUNITY, WHICH THEN LED INTO THE CREATION OF THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION. 
          AND THEN THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY FRAMEWORK THAT THAT COMMISSION WORKED ON, UM, SPENT A LOT OF TIME WORKING ON. 
          AND THE CARBON NEUTRALITY GOAL, UM, FOR 2030, THOSE CAME OUT AS A RESULT OF THAT PROCESS. 
          SO FURTHERING ON, AND THOSE BECAME LIKE THE, A GUIDING LIGHT THAT FOCUSED MUCH OF OUR WORK GOING FORWARD INTO THE 24 24 BLUEPRINT FOR CLIMATE ACTION. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THEME THROUGH MUCH OF THIS DOCUMENT. 
          UM, THERE'S A SUB BULLET ON, ON THE SLIDE HERE THAT TALKS ABOUT BLUE TEXT THAT YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THERE. 
          THAT'S NOT A TYPO THAT'S DONE INTENTIONALLY. 
          AND THAT'S TO SHOW THAT THAT IS AN UNDERCURRENT THAT'S GOING THROUGH SO MUCH OF OUR WORK. 
          AND WE BRING THAT HIGHLIGHT. 
          WE NOTATE THAT, UM, THROUGHOUT THIS DOCUMENT BECAUSE OUR COMMITMENT TO, UH, CARBON NEUTRALITY AND TAKING DECISIVE CLIMATE ACTION IS SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE SERIOUSLY AS STAFF FROM THE DIRECTION GIVEN BY COUNCIL. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANK YOU, PATRICK. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THESE COMMUNITY PRIORITIES WERE REFLECTED IN THE ULTIMATE PASSAGE AND SUBSEQUENT IMPLEMENTATION OF MEASURE U. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THE ROLE OF MEASURE U FUNDING. 
          IT'S ENABLED CRITICAL INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE, STAFFING, AND SERVICES. 
          WITHOUT IT, MANY SERVICES WOULD'VE CONTINUED TO DECLINE OR DISAPPEAR. 
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INSTEAD, WE ARE STABILIZING OPERATIONS AND MAKING FORWARD LOOKING INVESTMENTS. 
          SINCE THEN, WE'VE BEEN TACKLING OUR ROAD WORK. 
          WE'VE SEEN OUR PCI IMPROVE TO 52. 
          WE'VE IMPROVED OUR PARKS, RETAINED AND ATTRACTED TALENT TO OUR CITY TEAM. 
          WE'RE BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING ORGANIZATION BY RESOURCING OUR STAFF WITH TRAINING AND THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO DO THEIR WORK. 
          WE'VE SEEN OUR HOMELESS POINT IN TIME COUNT DROP PRECIPITOUSLY. 
          WE'VE SUPPORTED THE BUILDING OF MUCH NEEDED HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE ARE RENOVATING OUR CI CITY FACILITIES, ESPECIALLY OUR FIRE STATIONS, AND ARE BUILDING A NEW PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY IN THE CENTER OF OUR CITY TO IMPROVE RESPONSE TIMES ON OUR FAIRGROUNDS. 
          UH, WE ARE, WE ARE PROGRAMMING AND, UH, CREATING A VISION FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND WE ARE REINVESTING IN OUR PUBLIC SPACES, COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING AND BUSINESS SUPPORT, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THE WORK IS NOT DONE. 
          THE DECISIONS WE MAKE NOW ON HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE, CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WILL DEFINE OUR FUTURE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          COUNCIL IDENTIFIED SEVERAL MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT TWO YEAR CYCLE IN WHICH WE'VE MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS AND ACCOMPLISHED MEANINGFUL RESULTS. 
          AND THESE INCLUDE BUILDING OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, A FOCUSED AND COMMITTED COMMITMENT ON CITYWIDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION, CONTINUED ACTIVATION OF OUR FAIRGROUNDS AND LAUNCH OF OUR MASTER PLAN FOR THAT PROPERTY, COMPLETING THE GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING CODE. 
          BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, TEEING UP A PARKS MASTER PLAN, RIDING THE SHIP ON OUR LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS, AND ADOPTING THE CITY'S TREE ORDINANCE AND URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, AND IMPLEMENTING OUR HOUSING ELEMENT BY ENCOURAGING AND INCENTIVIZING HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN OUR CITY. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK PAUL KOEL OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO TAKE THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFE STREETS HAVE BEEN A COUNCIL PRIORITY AND COMMUNITY PRIORITY FOR THE PAST, PAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, IN RECOGNITION THAT IMPROVING MOBILITY OPTIONS WILL HELP CREATE A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER COMMUNITY, REDUCE CONGESTION, IMPROVE SAFETY, AND HELP MEET OUR CLIMATE GOALS. 
          IN SEPTEMBER, 2025, COUNCIL, YOU APPROVED THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, WHICH OUTLINE STEPS NEEDED TO MAKE PETALUMA A WORLD CLASS ACTIVE LIVING CITY, OR WALKING, BIKING, AND ROLLING OUR ACCELERATED PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE. 
          WE BELIEVE PETALUMA HAS ALL THE KEY INGREDIENTS TO ACHIEVE THIS VISION, INCLUDING OUR SIZE, TOPOGRAPHY, WEATHER, UM, AND OUR EXISTING NETWORK OF OFF STREET TRAILS. 
          UH, OUR TEAM IS WORKING HARD TO DELIVER NEAR, MID, AND LONG-TERM PROJECTS, UH, THAT WILL HELP CREATE A SAFE AND SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE FOR ALL PEOPLE. 
          ON THE NEAR TERM SIDE, WE'VE COMPLETED QUICK BUILD PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN SCHOOL AREAS. 
          WE'VE REDUCED SPEED LIMITS TO 15 MILES AN HOUR, UM, AROUND, UH, WITHIN 500 FEET OF ALL SCHOOLS. 
          AND WE'VE IMPLEMENTED TRAFFIC CALMING AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ENHANCEMENT ENHANCEMENTS. 
          WE'VE ALSO BEEN CAPITALIZING ON THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY THAT OUR PAVING PROJECTS BRING, UH, TO CLOSE SIDEWALK GAPS AND ADD AND UPGRADE CROSSWALKS AND BIKE LANES. 
          WE'VE ALSO BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON ADVANCING MID TO LONG-TERM PROJECTS, INCLUDING SEVERAL THAT WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE RECENTLY COMPLETED US 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY, WHICH WILL HELP IMPROVE CROSSTOWN CONNECTIVITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANKS, PAUL. 
          BRIAN, O DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, SO ONE OF THE OTHER TOP PRIORITIES, UH, FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL HAS BEEN, UM, SO NOT JUST SAFELY MOVING PEOPLE THROUGH TOWN, BUT ALSO HAVING A THRIVING LOCAL ECONOMY. 
          UM, AND SO ONE OF THE TOP GOALS HAS BEEN AROUND ENSURING THAT WE HAVE A VIBRANT ECONOMY THAT, UM, ENSURES THAT OUR COMMUNITY, OUR RESIDENTS, OUR PROPERTY OWNERS, OUR BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, HAVE A PLACE TO THRIVE. 
          AND SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY DILIGENTLY OVER THE PAST YEAR ON NOT JUST RETENANTING EXISTING SPACES, UM, BUT ALSO THINKING ABOUT, UM, AS WE START TO WRESTLE WITH UPDATING OUR ZONING CODE, HOW DO WE, UM, ENSURE A THRIVING, UH, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, UH, FOR ALL THESE GREAT NEW USES THAT ARE BEING, UH, NOT JUST PILOTED, UM, HERE IN TOWN, BUT, UM, REALLY THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE. 
          UH, THE CONCEPT OF FOOD TRUCKS. 
          UM, THIS WAS NOT A THING THAT THE, UM, ZONING CODE HAD TO GRAPPLE WITH. 
          FAST FORWARD, UM, A FEW, UH, ZONING CODE CYCLES. 
          UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY MUCH PART OF OUR, UM, CITY FABRIC, UM, THROUGHOUT 
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THE REGION. 
          UM, AND SO HOW DO WE START TO THINK ABOUT, UM, USING THE EXISTING ZONING CODE, MAKING IT WORK IN THE SHORT TERM AS WE START TO LOOK AT A, A COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CODE UPDATE. 
          UM, PERMITTING NEW USES COUNCIL WAS, UH, AT THE FOREFRONT OF RETAIL CANNABIS. 
          AND SO, UM, WE HAVE OUR THREE, UM, RETAIL CANNABIS, UH, FULLY PERMITTED. 
          WE HAVE A FINAL INSPECTION FOR THE FINAL, UM, THIRD TOMORROW. 
          AND SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED, UH, TO BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT POLICY FROM COUNCIL. 
          UM, I'M JOINED HERE TODAY BY OUR, UH, NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, CATHERINE DE PASQUA. 
          UM, AND SHE'LL, UM, BE SUPPORTING AND TAKING THE REIGNS, UH, FOR NOT JUST OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, BUT ALSO, UM, CONTINUING THE BUSINESS NAVIGATOR PROGRAM. 
          AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING, UH, THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS NOW CONSOLIDATED INTO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND WE'VE SEEN SOME EARLY RETURNS IN WORKING WITH OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO TWO THINGS THERE THAT I, UM, WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT. 
          WATER STREET REVITALIZATION. 
          OFTENTIMES WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY PUT INTO PLANNING PROCESSES, AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES SOME TIME, UH, TO ACTUALLY START TO SEE, UH, THE FRUITS OF THE LABOR. 
          AND SO WATER STREET IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE STARTED TO GET SOME NEW HOUSING DOWNTOWN JUST ON THE FRINGES OF DOWNTOWN, UH, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THE PROPERTY OWNERS WANTING TO COME TO THE TABLE, INVEST IN THEIR BUS BUILDINGS, UH, TO BRING ON NEW BUSINESSES. 
          UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN REALLY EXCITING TO BE A PART OF. 
          UM, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UM, A FEW WEEKS BACK WITH THE ENTITLEMENT APPROVAL FOR THE EKN HOTEL, UM, AGAIN, ONCE IN A GENERATION OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO, TO THINK ABOUT BRINGING VISITORS, SERVING DOWNTOWN, BRING SOME MORE ACTIVATION AND VIBRANCY, AS WELL AS THE, UM, APPROVAL OF THE OVERLAY AND ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT, UM, THAT MAY ALSO BRING TO BEAR. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND I WILL SIT HERE. 
          UM, AND WE ARE IN THE MIDST. 
          WE ARE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM RELEASING OUR DRAFT GENERAL PLAN AND DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT. 
          AND SO WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME, UM, FIVE YEARS CULMINATING INTO THIS. 
          UH, WE EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO START OUR ROUND OF PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR COUNCIL FINAL CONSIDERATION, LATE SUMMER OF A, AN UPDATED GENERAL PLAN, WHICH WILL TAKE US INTO, UH, MID-CENTURY 2050. 
          UM, AND SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UH, THOUGHTFULNESS AND A LOT OF MILESTONES THAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED AS A COMMUNITY AND AS STAFF TO GET TO THIS POINT. 
          UM, A FEW OF THOSE MENTIONED THERE. 
          AND AS PATRICK MENTIONED, UH, THE BLUEPRINT BEING ONE OF THOSE, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT FUTURE NEAR MID, LONG-TERM FUTURE FOR PETALUMA, UH, THAT IS CLIMATE RESPONSIBLE CLIMATE RESILIENCE. 
          UM, AND SO WE HAVE A BLUEPRINT, A LITERAL BLUEPRINT, UM, ON HOW TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. 
          NEXT SLIDE, AND I WILL BE HERE FOR THIS ONE AS WELL. 
          HOUSING FOR ALL, AS OUR CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, UM, A LOT TO BE PROUD OF. 
          THAT PHOTO IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE BURBANK PROJECT RIVER PLACE. 
          UM, THAT WAS A, UM, AS OUR HOUSING MANAGER LIKES TO MENTION, IT'S, UM, IT'S THE ALPHABET SOUP. 
          UM, THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT HAPPENS IN THE, IN THE, YOU KNOW, BACKGROUND, UM, TO SUPPORT OUR DEVELOPERS TO SUPPORT, UM, OUR PROJECTS TO ACTUALLY GET BUILT, GET THE MONEY, UM, WHETHER IT'S STATE SUBSIDIES, WHETHER IT'S, UH, THROUGH COUNCIL'S LEADERSHIP OF THE REDUCTION OF DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES FOR A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS HERE IN TOWN. 
          UM, WE HAVE, UM, THE PROOF IS, IS THERE, RIGHT? SO HOUSING THAT IS EITHER UNDER OR STARTING SOON TO START CONSTRUCTION, THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THERE, BOTH, UM, DEED RESTRICTED AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AS WELL AS MARKET RATE. 
          AND THE PIPELINE, UM, IS, IS SOMEWHAT STRONG AS WELL. 
          WE HAVE SOME, UM, ALSO SORT OF IN THE WINGS, THE GALLAGHER PROJECT THAT WAS RECENTLY APPROVED. 
          SID COMMONS, UM, AS WELL, CREEKWOOD, UM, YOU HAD SEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT LAST YEAR, AND THE WORK'S STILL NOT COMPLETE. 
          WE STILL NEED, THERE'S SOME OF THE SORT OF HARD TO FINISH PROJECTS, OYSTER COVE BEING ONE OF THEM. 
          UM, BUT IT IS AN ENTITLED PROJECT. 
          WE STILL THINK IT'S A GOOD PROJECT. 
          SO, UM, HOW DO WE WORK WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER AND ANY INTERESTED DEVELOPER TO ACTUALLY SEE THAT 
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TO FRUITION? UM, WHICH IS ANOTHER ONE THAT'S, UM, ON OUR LIST. 
          AND THEN EVERY THREE YEARS, UM, THE UPDATE TO OUR BUILDING AND FIRE CODE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT WAS DONE LATE LAST YEAR, AND THAT REALLY SETS THE TONE, ENSURES THE SAFETY OF OUR BUILDINGS FROM BOTH A LIFE SAFETY PERSPECTIVE AND A FIRE SAFETY PERSPECTIVE. 
          UM, AND SO THAT HAS BEEN FULLY IMPLEMENTED, UM, AND WE'RE REVIEWING ALL NEW PERMITS, UM, UNDER THE UPDATED, UM, CODE. 
          AND THEN FINALLY HOUSING FOR ALL HOMELESS SERVICES, UM, AND SUPPORTING OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION IN COORDINATION WITH OUR COUNTY PARTNERS, OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE ON THE GROUND. 
          UM, WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE, UH, THROUGH STAFF DEDICATION AND THE ABILITY, UH, TO SECURE ADDITIONAL FUNDS BOTH AT THE COUNTY LEVEL AND AT THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVEL, UM, TO HAVE A ROBUST, UM, HOMELESS SERVICES PROGRAM. 
          UM, ONE EXAMPLE, UH, THROUGH THE, UM, SECURING OF STATE FUNDS WE'RE IN THE FINAL STAGES, UM, TO ACCOMPLISH, UM, HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS IS THE EXPANSION OF OUR FAMILY SHELTER. 
          SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HEAR TIME AND TIME AGAIN, UM, A QUOTE UNQUOTE SPECIAL POPULATION, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE, UM, MEET THE NEED? UM, AND STAFF HAS CONTINUED TO DEMONSTRATE OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS HAVE CONTINUED, CONTINUED TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR PASSION, THEIR ABILITY, UM, TO DELIVER FOR THE COMMUNITY ON THAT FRONT. 
          UM, AND SO MORE TO COME, BUT JUST A LITTLE PREVIEW OF WHAT STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE LAST YEAR. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          GOOD EVENING COUNCIL, AND HAPPY MONDAY. 
          I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE PETALUMA FAIRGROUNDS, KAT REISINGER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          LET'S JUST START OFF WITH, WE PLANNED AND IMPLEMENTED, SUCCESSFULLY HOSTED A 2025 PETALUMA FAIR, AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS YEAR'S 2026 PETALUMA FAIR, WHERE WE ARE IN FULLY INTEGRATED IN OUR PLANNING PROCESS BETWEEN AGRICULTURE, YOUR TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL FAIR PROGRAMS, AND HAVE A FEW NEW FUN THINGS COMING UP. 
          SO WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. 
          WE OFFERED THE COMMUNITY ICE SKATING RINK FOR 28 DAYS THIS YEAR, AND WE PILOTED THE USE IN THE EXPO HALL. 
          SO INDOORS VERSUS LAST YEAR, WE TRIED PILOTING THE USE ON THE PARKING LOT AGAINST EAST WASHINGTON, AND WE WERE ABLE TO LEARN MANY, MANY THINGS ABOUT THE PROPERTY AND HOW RAIN LIKES TO FUNNEL TOWARDS THE STREET. 
          VERY EXCITING. 
          WE ALSO SECURED THE, AN EVENT MANAGER FOR OUR YEAR ROUND AG PROGRAMMING. 
          AND THIS ONE I PERSONALLY ENJOY AS I'VE LEARNED SO MANY THINGS. 
          A FEW EXAMPLES OF OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS AND EVENTS INCLUDE CATTLE CAMP FOR YOUTH LEARNING TO SHOW AT AG SHOWS, A JUDGES TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ADULTS WHERE THEY LITERALLY WENT OVER HOW TO DO A FOOT WITH A RIBBON AND YOU HOLD THE FOOT, WHICH I HAD NEVER LEARNED BEFORE. 
          WE ALSO WERE REALLY EXCITED TO HOST A BILINGUAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOCUSED ON PREVENTATIVE CARE TECHNIQUES FOR RAISING HEALTHY ANIMALS. 
          AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO LAUNCH AND TRY NEW, UH, AGRICULTURAL BASED PROGRAMS. WE HAVE ISSUED THE RFP AND INTERVIEWED PROPOSERS FOR THE FAIRGROUNDS MASTER PLAN AS STAFF ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO ENGAGING IN THIS PROCESS AND TO BETTER LEARN NOT ONLY THE FUTURE POTENTIAL OF THE PETALUMA FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY, BUT ALSO FOR OUR GREATER PETALUMA COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. 
          LASTLY, BUT NOT LEASTLY ON THIS LIST THAT IS NOT AN EXCLUSIVE LIST, IS PILOTING NEW USES FOR THE FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY. 
          AND WE HAVE STILL BEEN ABLE TO HONOR LEGACY USES AS OUTLINED IN OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES, WHICH WE FOLLOW VERY CLOSELY. 
          ANYTIME A PROGRAM OR EVENT IS BROUGHT ONTO THE FAIRGROUNDS, UH, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO HOST THINGS SUCH AS THE GREAT EGG HUNT, WHICH IS COMING UP, AND THE PETALUMA MUSIC FESTIVAL FOR A FEW EXAMPLES. 
          A FEW OTHER EXPLORED PILOT USES WOULD INCLUDE THIS NEW LAST YEAR WAS A USA SANCTIONED BOXING EVENT, WHICH IS ACTUALLY GONNA EXPAND FROM HERZOG INTO EXPO FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          WE HOSTED THE PETALUMA PRIDE. 
          WE HAVE A RODEO AND MUSIC FESTIVAL COMING UP IN APRIL, WHICH WILL BE OUR FIRST CITY PERMITTED RODEO, WHICH IS A VERY HEAVY LIFT FOR US, AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO TRY IT OUT. 
          AND ON A TOTALLY SEPARATE LENS, WE HAVE HOSTED FLOOR BALL IN THE EXPO HALL, AS WELL AS OUR MULTI-USE SPORT COURT TILES IN THE YANKEE BARN. 
          SO A VERY ROBUST AND VARIED PETALUMA FAIRGROUNDS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY 
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SHUFFLE AROUND HERE. 
          GOOD EVENING COUNCIL, UH, COMMUNITY AND STAFF, DREW HALTER, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO WE ARE GOING TO TAKE LIKE AN OVERVIEW NOW, UM, AND LOOK ABOUT THE INVESTMENT IN OUR PARKS AND OPEN SPACES, KINDA A SNAPSHOT BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS. 
          UH, I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SHARE WITH THE COUNCIL AND AND COMMUNITY AGAIN, UM, KIND OF DOVETAILING ON THE CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'VE BEEN, UM, SINCE THE ORIGINAL ADOPTION OF VAR CITY COUNCIL GOALS AND PRIORITIES. 
          IT'S ESPECIALLY RELEVANT IN, IN OUR PARKS. 
          SO BEAR WITH ME A LITTLE BIT. 
          UM, IN 2019, PRIOR TO THAT FIRST ADOPTION, PRIOR TO THE REGIONAL, UM, SUPPORT OF, OF THE PARKS MEASURE M AS WELL AS THE LOCAL SUPPORT THROUGH MEASURE U, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WERE A PARKS AND FACILITIES MAINTENANCE DIVISION UNDER PUBLIC WORKS, AND WE WERE A RECREATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT UNDER, UH, THE CITY MANAGER. 
          UH, CITY MANAGER HAD THE, THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS OUR PARKS DIRECTOR AT THAT TIME, UH, WHICH I THINK SHE FOUND OUT ON OUR SECOND DAY, MAYBE . 
          UM, YOU KNOW, AND WITH, WITH MEASURE U PARTICULARLY, THAT REALLY CATAPULTED A A LOT OF THE INVESTMENT WE'VE SEEN IN THE LAST TWO GOALS AND PRIORITY CYCLE. 
          SO I'M GONNA, UM, TALK ABOUT, AGAIN, IN, IN 2019, UH, WE HAD ZERO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. 
          OUR, OUR FLEET INCLUDED, UM, AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 200,000 MILES PER VEHICLE. 
          WE COORDINATED OUR VACATIONS IN SICK TIME, A LOT AROUND SHARED USE OF VEHICLES. 
          EVEN. 
          WE HAD NO BUCKET TRUCKS, WE HAD NO COMPACT UTILITY DIRECTORS. 
          UH, WE WERE VERY MUCH, YOU KNOW, BOOTSTRAP IN IT WITH, UM, WITH WHAT WE HAD. 
          UH, AND A AND A BIG CREDIT AND CREATIVITY GOES TO THE CREW, MANY OF WHICH ARE STILL HERE DRIVING THAT SHIP TODAY. 
          SO FAST FORWARD, UM, WE'VE SEEN THOSE SUBSEQUENT INVESTMENTS IN OUR PEOPLE AND OUR PLACES, AND THIS HAS REALLY HELPED US TRANSLATE TO BETTER SERVICES BEING MORE RESPONSIVE, UH, TO THE ENVIRONMENTS AS WE NEED TO PIVOT AND BE MORE EFFICIENT WITH THOSE INVESTMENTS THAT WE HAVE. 
          UH, WE'VE GROWN FROM SEVEN PARKS MAINTENANCE WORKERS, UH, IN 2019 TO 10. 
          WE HAVE THIS YEAR, UH, WE'VE GOT ONE THIRD OF OUR FLEET IS NOW ELECTRIC. 
          WE HAVE ELECTRIC MOWERS, WE'VE GOT PILOTING HAND TOOLS, UH, AND WE'VE MADE A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT UPGRADES IN OUR IRRIGATION TO ALLOW US TO BE MORE EFFICIENT WHEN THERE ARE BIG BOOMS AND BUST CYCLES WITH, UM, WATER EFFORTS, ET CETERA. 
          THERE IS MORE COLLABORATION BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS THAN EVER BEFORE. 
          UM, EVEN AS A RECONSTITUTE DEPARTMENT, UM, THIS HAS BEEN A CULTURE THAT'S BEEN A DIRECT RESULT OF, UH, THE COUNCIL, UH, AND CITY MANAGE ITS COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS, UH, TO REALLY TACKLE BIG, BIG, UH, COMPLEX ISSUES. 
          UM, SOME OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THIS LAST GOALS AND PRIORITY CYCLE INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, REALLY KIND OF, UM, COMPLEX ISSUES LIKE THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN, LIKE THE URBAN FORESTRY MANAGEMENT PLAN, UH, LAND USE ELEMENTS OF THE GENERAL PLAN, ALL THE PLANS, UM, BUT, BUT ALSO, UH, REALLY BUILDING THAT, UH, INSTITUTIONAL KIND OF MUSCLE TO, TO BUILD NEW PROGRAMS AND TAKE ON THE CONFIDENCE OF SOME THINGS LIKE THE NEW PETALUMA AQUATICS PROGRAM, SOMETHING THE CITY HAD NOT HAD SINCE 2012. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS, UH, ON THE SLIDE ON YOUR ON YOUR SCREEN KIND OF HELPS. 
          AND EVENTUALLY WE'LL TEE UP, WHICH I KNOW IS A INTEREST OF THE COUNCIL, THE STRATEGIC PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT IN SEVERAL GOALS AND PRIORITIES, AND WE'RE NOT, UH, WAITING RIGHT, FOR, FOR FUNDING TO BECOME AVAILABLE OR FOR THIS TO REACH IT TO ALL THE WAY AS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. 
          UH, WE'VE ESTABLISHED AN AD HOC COMMITTEE AT THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION. 
          UH, NOW WE HAVE A LOT OF PLANS THAT ARE GONNA HELP INFORM THAT SCOPE, INCLUDING THINGS LIKE THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, THINGS LIKE THE FAIRGROUNDS MASTER PLAN, AND WE'VE LEARNED SO MUCH AND WE'RE REALLY READY TO HAVE SUCH A, A ROBUST CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE GONNA GET STARTED ON THAT. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE EXCITED TO PROVIDE UPDATES LATER ON WHERE WE ARE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND WE'RE GONNA INVITE THE FOLKS FROM WATER COME UP HERE. 
          THANKS, DREW. 
          GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          I'M CHELSEA THOMPSON, DIRECTOR OF WATER RESOURCES AND UTILITIES. 
          UM, OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE'VE MADE PROGRESS ON, UM, MANY WATER SUPPLY, RELI, RELIABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND REGULATORY, UM, COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS FOR PETA'S WATER FOR PLANNING. 
          WE'RE ADVANCING THE INTEGRATED WATER MASTER PLAN AND HAVE COMPLETED THE GRANT FUNDED RECYCLED WATER FACILITIES PLANNING STUDY STUDY, WHICH YOU HEARD ABOUT AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING. 
          THESE EFFORTS ARE HELPING GUIDE NEAR TERM PRIORITIES, INCLUDING EXPANSION OF THE LOCAL GROUNDWATER SUPPLY, UH, AND POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF URBAN RECYCLED 
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WATER SYSTEM WHEN GRANT FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE. 
          THE FINAL IWMP IS ANTICIPATED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, AT WHICH TIME STAFF WILL RETURN TO COUNCIL. 
          AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, WE EXPANDED METERED WATER SERVICE TO SEVERAL SITES, INCLUDING HAPPY HEARTS, PRESCHOOL, THE PARKS, MAINTENANCE BUILDING AND PLAY DOG PLAY. 
          THE ONSITE IRRIGATION WELL HAS RECENTLY BE D BEEN DECOMMISSIONED, AND WE'RE PRIORITIZING CONNECTIONS FOR THE REMAINING VENDORS ON SITE TO ENSURE SAFE AND FULLY METERED SERVICE AT ELLIS CREEK. 
          THE TEAM SUBMITTED THE REQUIRED FIVE YEAR, UH, NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM, OR NPDS PERMIT RENEWAL AHEAD OF THE JUNE 26TH DEADLINE. 
          THE PERMIT IS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW BY THE REGIONAL WATER BOARD. 
          WE ANTICIPATE SOME DELAY IN PERMIT REISSUANCE DUE TO RECENT REGULATORY CHANGES FOR, UH, DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. 
          BUT NO MAJOR OPERATIONAL CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED AT THE PLANT. 
          AND, UM, CURRENT PER PERMIT CONDITIONS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL A NEW PERMIT IS ISSUED. 
          WE'VE ALSO COMPLETED SEVERAL GRANT FUNDED PROJECTS THIS LAST YEAR. 
          OUR AQUIFER STORAGE AND REP RECOVERY PILOT IS COMPLETE. 
          THE RESULTS SHOWED LIMITED LONG-TERM FEASIBILITY AT THE DELL OR WELL SITE DUE TO WATER QUALITY AND AQUIFER CAPACITY. 
          OUR ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IS NOW FULLY IMPLEMENTED CITYWIDE ACROSS, UH, 2000 OR 20,000 PLUS METERS. 
          THIS PROJECT IMPLO IMPROVES LEAK DETECTION AND WATER CUSTOMER AWARENESS THROUGH THE ION WATER PORTAL, AND IT'S EXPECTED TO SAVE ABOUT 600 ACRE FEET ANNUALLY, WHICH IS ROUGHLY 8% OF THE CITY'S AVERAGE ANNUAL USE OF, UM, 7,500 ACRE FEET. 
          UM, AND THEN LASTLY, OF THE GRANT FUNDED PROJECTS, THE URBAN RECYCLED WATER EXPANSION, UH, RAINIER AND MARIA HAS BEEN COMPLETE, AND IT'S EXPECTED TO OFFSET ABOUT 78 ACRE FEET A YEAR AS CONNECTIONS ALONG THAT EXTENSION COME, COME ONLINE FOR CREEK MAINTENANCE. 
          WE REMOVED, UM, SEDIMENT AND VEGETATION AND CORONA CREEK UNDER NEWLY ISSUED CREEK MAINTENANCE PERMITS, AND ARE ADVANCING A CITYWIDE PROGRAMMATIC PERMIT TO STREAMLINE FUTURE WORK, WHICH IS ANTICIPATED BY 20, UM, SUMMER OF 2027. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          BACK AGAIN, PATRICK CARTER, ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER, UM, AND DEB FOX, OUR CLIMATE ACTION MANAGER. 
          UM, THIS NEXT SLIDE IS ABOUT CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY. 
          IT'S JUST A VERY SHORT LIST OF SOME OF THE MAJOR THINGS THAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED RECENTLY. 
          UM, AS ALREADY MENTIONED BY DREW, I APPRECIATE THE PREVIEW ON THIS. 
          UM, THE FLEET IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR, UH, CLIMATE ACTION. 
          IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE KNOW THAT CREATES THE MOST GREENHOUSE GASES, TRANSPORTATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UM, AND SO WE'VE TRIED TO BE A MODEL FOR OTHERS IN OUR ELECTRIFICATION EFFORTS. 
          UM, WE WENT FROM A SINGLE ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN 2019. 
          UM, IT WAS A, A CHEVY BOLT, UM, IN THE TRANSIT DEPARTMENT TO NOW, CURRENTLY WE HAVE 46 ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN THE FLEET, INCLUDING FOUR OF OUR TRANSIT BUSES AND TWO OF OUR, UH, PURSUIT RATED POLICE VEHICLES, WHICH THE CHIEF WILL TALK ABOUT, UH, IN THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          BUT, UM, GOING DOWN THE LIST AS WELL, UM, THE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE, WE'VE BUILT OUT A LOT OF THE EASY PLACES WHERE THERE'S CAPACITY TO BUILD OUT. 
          AND SO NOW WE'RE IN THE TRICKY PART OF FINDING THAT NEW CAPACITY AND FINDING, ESPECIALLY THE MONEY TO BUILD THAT NEW CAPACITY FOR ADDITIONAL FLEET, UM, CHARGING. 
          SO THAT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT'S COGNIZANT TO US AND ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR MORE GRANT FUNDING TO HELP US FIGURE OUT, UM, TAKING STOCK OF OUR BUILDING, UH, ENERGY USE, WHICH IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE, UM, SUSTAINABILITY AND OUR CLIMATE ACTION CAN, UM, MAKE AN IMPACT IN CITY EFFORTS. 
          UH, WE'VE TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TO DO ENERGY EFFICIENCY AUDITS TO SEE WHAT OUR BUILDING STOCK IS LIKE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE A SPOILER TO ANYONE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT AND TRYING TO FIND, AGAIN, THE FUNDING, WHICH IS A COMMON REFRAIN, AND HOW WE'LL BUILD ABLE TO FINANCE AND AFFORD THOSE, UM, THOSE CHANGES IS THE KIND OF NEXT STEP AND THE MORE CHALLENGING PIECE ONCE YOU FIGURED OUT THE ISSUE. 
          UM, BUT ON THAT THEME OF TRYING TO FIND ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO DO THE THINGS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED IS THE HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER, UH, REPLACEMENTS. 
          UM, WE FOUND A PARTNER IN, UM, PG E TO USE THEIR GK 12. 
          SO IT'S GOVERNMENT AND, AND K THROUGH 12 GOVERNMENT AND, UM, SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM TO REPLACE OVER 20 HEAT PUMPS OR 20 WATER HEATERS WITH ELECTRIC HEAT PUMP WATER HEATERS AT A COST SAVINGS TO THE CITY OF OVER $300,000, UM, THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          SO THAT WAS A, A GREAT WIN THAT WE HAD RECENTLY. 
          UM, AND THEN JUST KIND 
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OF SKIPPING TO THE LAST PART, AND I'LL LET DEB SPEAK ON THE OTHER TWO, UM, WE'RE PARTNERING WITH OTHERS, UM, TO KIND OF TRY OUT NEW THINGS. 
          SO THE, THE PURPLE CUP PROGRAM, THAT REUSABLE CUP PROGRAM KIND OF LOOKS PURPLE ON THERE. 
          IT LOOKS MORE BLUE THAN PURPLE, BUT IT'S JUST, IMAGINE THAT IT'S PURPLE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE, UM, TRYING IT OUT WITH PEOPLE. 
          THEY, THEY IDENTIFIED PETALUMA AS A GREAT PLACE THAT HAD LIKE THE MINDSET OF TRYING NEW THINGS FOR USE. 
          UM, AND THEY REACHED OUT TO US AND WE HELPED FACILITATE AND MAKE THAT PROGRAM, UM, A POSSIBILITY FOR ABOUT THREE MONTHS. 
          , UH, WE WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN LONGER, UM, BUT THOSE CUPS, UH, ARE STILL IN USE. 
          UM, THEY'VE GRANTED US, UM, USE. 
          AND SO, UM, WE'RE USING THOSE AT THE FAIR. 
          WE USE THEM AT LUMA ICE, AND WE'RE GONNA LOOKING FORWARD TO USING THOSE AGAIN AT THE NEXT, THE 2026 FAIR, UH, TO TRY AND REDUCE THAT. 
          JUST UNNECESSARY WASTE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CAN REFILL THEIR CUPS THERE. 
          UM, AND WE'RE TRYING, YOU KNOW, WE RECOGNIZE THAT SOME IN, IN WARMER WEATHERS, THE THE WATER WASN'T, UH, WASN'T GREAT. 
          SO, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS TO, TO COOL THAT WATER DOWN AND MAKE IT A MORE REFRESHING PEOPLE SO THAT THEY'RE GETTING REFRESHED AND REDUCING WASTE AT THE SAME TIME. 
          SO JUST TRYING NEW THINGS AND TRYING TO BE INNOVATIVE LIKE THAT. 
          AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DEB TO TALK ABOUT THE REMAINING ITEMS. SO I'M DEB FOX, THE CLIMATE ACTION MANAGER. 
          UH, AND, UH, SO THE, WE'VE LAUNCHED, UH, CLIMATE ACTION WORKING GROUPS. 
          THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN HAS A LOT OF ACTIONS IN IT, AND IT'S NOT MEANT TO BE DONE BY JUST THE CITY ALONE. 
          IT REALLY DOES TAKE A VILLAGE. 
          AND SO THE WORKING GROUPS ARE ORGANIZING OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AROUND THE VARIOUS STRATEGIES OUTLINED IN THE BLUEPRINT SO THAT WE END UP HAVING ELECTRIFICATION WORKING GROUP, A HABITAT WORKING GROUP THAT ENCOMPASSES A LOT OF THE NATURAL SYSTEMS, UH, ELEMENTS THAT EN, UM, LIKE A CLIMATE ACTION, OR, EXCUSE ME, A HABITAT GARDEN CAMPAIGN. 
          BUT IT'S ALSO WHERE OUR, UH, COMPREHENSIVE LAND MANAGEMENT COMES INTO IT. 
          IT REALLY COVERS ALL OF THE HABITAT WITHIN THE CITY. 
          UH, WE WILL HAVE, UH, UH, WASTE WORKING GROUP. 
          UH, TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSIT ARE JUST GETTING FORMED AROUND BIKE MONTH THAT IS COMING UP IN THE MONTH OF MAY. 
          AND THEN THERE'S THE, THE PART OF ACTUALLY ORGANIZING ALL OF THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO HAVE A COORDINATED COMMUNICATION AROUND ALL OF THIS SO THAT WE AREN'T DUPLICATING RESOURCES, THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LEVERAGING OUR EXISTING RESOURCES, AND THEN BEING ABLE TO FIND OUT WHERE WE HAVE GAPS, HOW TO APPLY FOR THE FUNDS THAT ARE COMING, LIKE PROP $4 THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO CLIMATE ACTION. 
          UM, AND THEN THIS ALSO THEN, UH, BUILDS OUR COMMUNITY RESILIENCY IS, UH, BY ITS 'CAUSE IT'S OWNED BY THE COMMUNITY. 
          THESE CLIMATE ACTIONS AND THIS BLUEPRINT ARE A COMMUNITY, UH, ACTION THAT WE ALL DO TOGETHER WITH THE CITY AND PARTNERSHIP. 
          SO THAT'S THE, UH, UH, WORKING GROUPS THAT ARE UNDERWAY. 
          UH, THE OTHER PIECE THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE A CONSULTANT THAT IS, UH, WILL BE WORKING WITH ALL OF OUR CITY STAFF TO HAVE THAT ACTUAL, THE, THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTED, UH, AND UP ON OUR WEBSITE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. 
          SO THAT IS UNDERWAY AS WE SPEAK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND I'M NOT SURE WHO TO INVITE UP NEXT. 
          GOOD EVENING, BRIAN MILLER, YOUR POLICE CHIEF. 
          AND, UH, SO WE'RE CALLING THIS POLICING THE PETALUMA WAY. 
          AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT FOR US AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW FOR OVER 165 YEARS. 
          UH, PETALUMA POLICING IS REALLY FUNDAMENTALLY WHAT WE DO INHERENTLY AND MANY COMMUNITIES ARE IN, UH, ADOPTING COMMUNITY POLICING STRATEGIES. 
          AND IT'S JUST THE WAY WE'VE SERVE AND IT'S THE WAY WE'VE ALWAYS SERVED. 
          AND SO FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE'VE REALLY BEEN FOCUSING ON INCREASING NOT ONLY OUR STAFFING, BUT INVESTING IN OUR STAFF AND THE LEVEL OF SERVICE AND THE LEVEL OF PROFESSIONALISM. 
          AND SO FOR ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES IN MY CAREER, UM, OTHER THAN THE 2008 RECESSION WHERE WE REDUCED OUR, OUR STAFFING ALLOCATIONS AND WE'RE FULL STAFFED OUT OF SHEER NECESSITY BECAUSE OF A REDUCTION IN SIZE, UH, I'M PLEASED TO REPORT THAT WE ARE FULLY STAFFED IN OUR SWORN O POLICE OFFICERS AND I HAVE NO VACANCIES OF MY ALLOCATED POLICE OFFICERS POSITIONS. 
          SO THIS YEAR, WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING ON, NOW THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS SEATED AND IN, IN SEAT, MANY OF THEM ARE TRAINING AND LEARNING THE JOB. 
          WE'RE REALLY INVESTING IN THEIR TRAINING AND THEIR ONBOARDING, AND GETTING OUR FUNCTIONAL STAFFING, UM, OUT IN THE FIELD SO THAT YOU'RE GONNA START SEEING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND THE EFFICACY OF OUR RESOURCES OUT IN THE FIELD, UM, DEPLOYED IN A MUCH MORE PROACTIVE MODEL. 
          AND THEN WE CAN FEEL THE, THE FULL COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCES, UH, AND BANDWIDTH OF OUR SERVICES. 
          WE'RE USING TECHNOLOGY TO OUR BENEFIT. 
          WE'VE IMPLEMENTED A DATA-DRIVEN PLATFORM SO THAT NOT ONLY WHEN WE HAVE OUR, OUR STAFFING AT, AT FULL STAFFING, WE CAN ALSO BE THE MOST STRATEGIC AND, AND EFFECTIVE IN THE UTILIZATION OF THAT 
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SERVICES AND, UH, BE VERY THOUGHTFUL IN WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE DEPLOYING OUR RESOURCES AND OUR STAFF WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE WE'RE DEPLOYING THEM IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE BEEN REALLY, REALLY HEAVILY ENGAGED IN OUR CIVILIAN HYBRID OVERSIGHT MODEL, UM, IMPLEMENTING OUR INDEPENDENT POLICE AUDITOR, UM, DEVELOPING AND CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, UM, AS LEGISLATIVELY REQUIRED IN DOING OUR, OUR ANNUAL REPORTING FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT THIS YEAR WITH OUR PARTNERS IN, IN OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WE CODIFIED ALL THOSE COMPONENTS INTO THE MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT, WHICH MEANS THAT IT'S PART OF OUR CITY'S RE LEGATIONS AND THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO STAND. 
          AND SO THOSE THINGS ARE HERE TO STAY. 
          AND PART OF, UH, THE MUNICIPAL CODE. 
          UM, AGAIN, AS PART OF OUR, OUR PETALUMA POLICING AND PETALUMA WAY OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY, WE'VE REALLY INVESTED HEAVILY IN OUR PARTNERSHIPS, GETTING INTO OUR SCHOOLS, WORKING WITH OUR YOUTH, UM, WORKING WITH OUR NONPROFITS. 
          WE'VE RELAUNCHED OUR COMMUNITY POLICE ACADEMY, UM, ENHANCED AND EXPANDED OUR DISTRICT POLICE MODEL, WHICH ONLY FURTHER SERVES OUR SERVICE DELIVERY TO THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND REALLY TRYING TO EMPHASIZE THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS AND HAVING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE SERVE. 
          AND THEN, AS PATRICK CARTER REPORTED, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO DO OUR PART, UM, ON THE CLIMATE PERSPECTIVE AS WELL, AND BE PART OF, UM, UM, PART OF THE SOLUTION. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU'LL SEE DEPICTED ON THE BOTTOM TWO PICTURES ARE POLICE VEHICLES. 
          ONE IS A TRADITIONAL BLACK AND WHITE PATROL VEHICLE, AND THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS AN ALL WHITE. 
          AND THEN YOU CAN KIND OF MAKE IT OUT IN THE BACKGROUND IS A SOLAR, UM, ARRAY. 
          THOSE ARE OUR TWO ALL ELECTRIC, UM, UH, FACTORY PRODUCED POLICE PACKAGE PURSUIT RATED, UM, PATROL VEHICLES THAT ARE CURRENTLY OUT IN THE FIELD, AS WELL AS THE, UM, INDEPENDENT BATTERY OPERATED OFF GRID, SOLAR CHARGING, UM, UM, PANEL THAT'S AT OUR, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THAT IS THE SOLAR PANEL YOU MAY REMEMBER WAS GRANT APPROVED, UM, HERE AS WELL AS THE, UM, BLACK AND WHITE ALL ELECTRIC PATROL VEHICLE WAS, UH, FULLY FUNDED THROUGH, UH, GRANT FUNDING. 
          SO THANK YOU, AND I'LL TURN IT OFF TO OUR NEXT PARTNER. 
          ALL GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY KAITLYN CORLEY, YOUR CITY CLERK. 
          UH, SO OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE HAS REALLY FOCUSED ON PROJECTS THAT HELP EXPAND ACCESS AND IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          UH, ONE OF THOSE WAYS, UH, IS OUR PUBLIC RECORDS SYSTEM. 
          WE'VE SEEN, UH, A, A HUGE INCREASE IN INTEREST IN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. 
          THANKS TO OUR SIMPLE ONLINE REQUEST PORTAL. 
          NEXT REQUEST. 
          UH, THE CITY RESPONDED TO OVER 800 REQUESTS IN 2025, WHICH WAS A BIG JUMP FROM 450 IN 2024, AND WE'VE ALREADY HIT 200 REQUESTS THIS YEAR, UH, AND RELEASED OVER 28,000 DOCUMENTS SINCE THE PORTAL'S INCEPTION. 
          UH, IF YOU'VE WALKED PAST OUR OFFICE, YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE BOXES, WHICH HAS BEEN A PART OF OUR, UH, OVERHAUL OF OUR PAPER RECORDS, WHICH HAS INCLUDED A FULL AUDIT AND INVENTORY AND CITYWIDE DESTRUCTION. 
          SO WE'VE CLEARED OUT OVER 800 BOXES OF OUTDATED AND OBSOLETE RECORDS, WHICH MAKES IT EASIER TO FIND THE RECORDS WE NEED TO FIND. 
          UH, AND A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO KAREN GONZALEZ, WHO'S OUR SPECIAL PROJECT CONSULTANT. 
          SHE'S DONE AN AMAZING JOB ON THAT. 
          SHE'S OUR RECORD SUPERSTAR. 
          UM, WE HAVE ALSO EXPANDED LANGUAGE ACCESS, UH, AND REDUCED BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION THROUGH OUR AI TOOL, WORDLY THAT PROVIDES REAL TIME TRANSLATION AND CAPTIONING AT OUR COUNCIL MEETINGS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE ALSO EXTREMELY PROUD, UH, TO HAVE HELPED ONBOARD AND SUPPORT THE CITY'S FIRST EVER MONOLINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKING COMMISSIONERS ON OUR REC, UH, RECREATION PARKS AND MUSIC COMMISSION STAFF WAS ABLE TO COORDINATE WITH LOCAL INTERPRETERS AND BLUE ZONES TO PROVIDE INTERPRETATION, TRANSLATION, AND GENERAL SUPPORT TO THESE COMMISSIONERS IS REALLY THEIR WILLINGNESS TO VOLUNTEER AND HELP US PIONEER A MULTILINGUAL PUBLIC MEETING. 
          IT'S JUST AN INCREDIBLE SERVICE TO THE CITY, UH, AND HELPS US CONNECT WITH OUR SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY BROADLY. 
          UM, AND NOW I'LL PASS IT OVER TO LINDA TO TALK ABOUT OUR AMAZING ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT. 
          GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR AND THE HONORABLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, A CITY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE. 
          THAT'S OUR THEME. 
          THIS MORE, THIS, THIS EVENING IS ALSO REFLECTS OUR PETALUMA INITIATIVE AND A COMMITMENT TO BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING ORGANIZATION THROUGH A PEOPLE-CENTERED, VALUES-DRIVEN APPROACH. 
          THIS INITIATIVE IS NOT SIMPLY A STRATEGY. 
          IT IS A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT IN OUR WORKFORCE AND OUR ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE. 
          IT REPRESENT A SHIFT TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE HUMAN-CENTERED TRANSFORMATION WHERE PEOPLE REMAIN THE CENTRAL TO 
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EVERY DECISION WE MAKE. 
          SINCE AUGUST OF 2025, THE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DEPARTMENT, A SD, HAS SERVED AS THE FOUNDATION OF THIS EFFORT, BRINGING TOGETHER FINANCE, HUMAN RESOURCES, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND RISK MANAGEMENT INTO A UNIFIED STRUCTURE. 
          THIS ALIGNMENT ALLOW US TO STREAMLINE OPERATIONS, REDUCE DUPLICATION, AND ENSURE THAT OUR DAILY WORK SUPPORT THE CITY'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. 
          AS A RESULT, WE ARE SEEING MEASURABLE PROGRESS, IMPROVED EFFICIENCY THROUGH STANDARDIZATION, INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH AUTOMATION, STRONGER ALIGNMENT ACROSS THE DEPARTMENTS, AND A CULTURE BASE ON CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS. 
          OUR APPROACH IS GUIDED BY THE FOUR A'S ALERTNESS, AGILITY, ADAPTABILITY, AND ALIGNMENT. 
          THESE PRINCIPLES ENABLE US TO REMAIN RESPONSIVE, RESILIENT, AND EFFECTIVE IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT OUR CITY ACROSS THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF A SD. 
          THIS WORK DELIVERS RESULTS AS FOLLOW IN FINANCE, WE MANAGE CITY'S FINANCIAL OPERATIONS, ENSURING RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF LONG-TERM FISCAL HEALTH. 
          WE OVERSEE MORE THAN 120 FUNDS AND MAINTAIN RESERVES TO SUPPORT ESSENTIAL CITY SERVICES. 
          PETALUMA HOLDS A STRONG AA CREDIT RATING FROM STANDARD POS, REFLECTING ITS SOUNDS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. 
          WE ALSO RECEIVE GFOA DISTINGUISHED BUDGET AWARD AND A CERTIFICATE IN EXCELLENCE FINANCIAL REPORTING. 
          OUR FINANCE TEAMS SUPPORTS ALL CITIES DEPARTMENTS WITH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES, AND WE ALSO MANAGE OVER 25,000 UTILITY ACCOUNTS, WHICH ALSO PLAY A KEY ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE CITY'S ECONOMY IN WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT. 
          EQUALLY IMPORTANT IS THE HR. 
          WE PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN WORKFORCE PLANNING, GUIDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, AND ENSURING EMPLOYEES TO UNDERSTAND THE WHY BEHIND THE CHANGE. 
          IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, WE HAVE VETTED OVER 3,200 JOB APPLICATIONS, HIRED AND PROMOTED A TOTAL OF 90 EMPLOYEES. 
          AND IN RECENT MONTHS, WE ALSO IMPLEMENTED A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, STREAMLINED TRAINING PRO, IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITIES SUPPORT, SCALABLE ONBOARDING AND UPSKILLING, AND PROVIDES DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS TO ENHANCE OUR WORKFORCE. 
          PETAL INNOVATE PETALUMA, IT'S OUR TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE. 
          IT FOCUSES ON MODERNIZING SYSTEMS AND EMPOWERING OUR WORKFORCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. 
          WE'VE MAINTAINED OVER 400 GIS DATASET TO ENABLE CROSS DEPARTMENT COLLABORATIONS AND INFORMED DECISION MAKING. 
          WE'VE EXPANDED OVER 75 PLUS WEB MAPPING TO SUPPORT KEY INITIATIVES SUCH AS GRAZING WEED ABATEMENTS. 
          IN RECENT MONTHS, WE ALSO INSTALLED OVER 18,000 FEET, NEARLY 3.5 MILES OF NETWORKING HARDWARE AT THE AQUATIC CENTERS, THE FAIRGROUNDS, THE TEMPORARY FIRE STATION, FIRE STATION 3.5 IN THE KAVANAUGH POOL, ALL TO STRENGTHEN CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          THIS CONNECTIONS HELP 75 STEPS TO DO THE JOB. 
          EQUALLY IMPORTANT IS ALSO OUR IT HELP DESK. 
          WE RESOLVED OVER 2,500 SERVICE REQUESTS JUST THIS YEAR WITH AN AVERAGE RESOLUTIONS OF 30 MINUTES PER REQUEST. 
          IT REPRESENT ALMOST 1,250 HOURS OR SEVEN MONTHS OF FULL-TIME WORK DEDICATED TO MAINTAINING PRODUCTIVITY ACROSS THE CITY. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, WE REIMAGINE ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT TO STRENGTHEN DECISION MAKING BY EMBEDDING THE RISK AWARENESS ACROSS THE ORGANIZATIONS AND FOSTERING A SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING MINDSET. 
          THIS ENABLES OUR PROACTIVE RESPONSES TO EMERGING CHALLENGES. 
          ULTIMATELY, ONE PETALUMA IS ABOUT ALIGNMENT. 
          IT'S ABOUT ALIGNING OUR PEOPLE, OUR PROCESSES, AND OUR PURPOSES. 
          AND THROUGH THIS ALIGNMENT, I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY THAT A SB PARTNERS WITH ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS IN BUILDING A RESILIENT, INNOVATIVE, AND A HIGH PERFORMING ORGANIZATION POSITION OURSELF TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY EFFECTIVELY NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE. 
          AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT THANK CORY, GABRIELLE, BRENDA GOIN, SALLY RICCI AND JOE NELSON FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND DEDICATION AND ADVANCING AD'S MISSIONS TO SERVE THEIR ORGANIZATION. 
          THANK 
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YOU. 
          THANK YOU, LINDA. 
          GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, COLLEAGUES, COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          I AM ERIC DANLEY. 
          I'M THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND I'M GOING TO TOUCH BASE BRIEFLY ON, UM, LEGAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN, IN OUR, IN OUR REPORTING PERIOD. 
          UM, THIS SLIDE THAT'S UP ON THE SCREEN NOW IS REALLY MOSTLY FOCUSED ON OUR LITIGATION, UM, WITH JUST ONE BULLET ON, ON A, UH, WHAT FOR US IS, IS A LOT OF OUR REGULATORY WORK. 
          SO I'LL EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE GET TO THAT ITEM, THE ORDINANCE AND POLICY ENACTMENTS. 
          AND I'M GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS FOR SOME OF THESE ACTIONS, BECAUSE, UM, WHAT I THINK YOU CAN SEE IS THAT THEY'RE REALLY DRIVEN BY POLICIES THAT THE COUNCIL HAS SET IN RESPONSE TO THE PRIORITIES THEY'VE SET FOR THE, FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, SO STARTING WITH THE FIRST BULLET, UM, THROUGH THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION TO JOIN LITIGATION TO, UM, AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UM, TO PRESERVE, UH, CONGRESSIONALLY APPROVED GRANT FUNDING, UM, UM, IN PETALUMA, WHICH COULD, UM, WHICH FOR, FOR THE CURRENT YEAR IS APPROXIMATELY $29 MILLION IN TOTAL FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING. 
          UM, SO FAR, UM, JOINING THAT LITIGATION IS PRESERVED THE CITY'S ABILITY TO ACCEPT, UM, $6 MILLION IN THAT FUNDING WITHOUT HAVING TO, UM, ACCEPT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, PROVISIONS THAT THE COURTS HAVE, HAVE SO FAR RULED, UM, ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VIOLATE THE 10TH AMENDMENT, THE US CONSTITUTION. 
          UM, AND, AND WOULD IF WE, UM, COMPLIED WITH THEM POTENTIALLY, UM, STATE LAW, THE VALUES ACT. 
          UM, SO, AND, AND THAT WORK IS ONGOING. 
          THOSE CASES ARE ONGOING. 
          THEY'RE GOING ON UP ON APPEAL BEFORE THE NINTH CIRCUIT. 
          UM, AND SO FAR WITH PROMISING RESULTS, WE'VE ALSO GOT CURRENTLY 10 ACTIVE MOBILE HOME PARK, UM, RELATED LAWSUITS. 
          UM, ONE OF WHICH WE'VE ACTUALLY PROSECUTED AFFIRMATIVELY AT THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION, UM, CONCERNING VIOLATIONS OF THE COUNCIL'S SENIOR OVERLAY THAT ENACTED IN RESPONSE TO, UM, REQUESTS FROM, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN OUR SENIOR PARKS TO PRESERVE THE SENIOR, UM, COMMUNITIES INTO WHICH THEY OPTED WHEN THEY BOUGHT THEIR HOMES. 
          UM, AND THOSE, WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT, ABOUT THAT LITIGATION ACTIVITY IS IT, IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION TO STAFF TO MAINTAIN AND EVEN STRENGTHEN THE PROTECTIONS, UM, THAT EXIST IN THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL CODE, UM, TO, UH, SUPPORT THE STABLE HOUSING OF NEARLY 900 HOUSEHOLDS IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA, UM, THAT RESIDE IN MOBILE HOMES WHO OWN THEIR OWN HOMES, BUT DO NOT OWN THE UNDERLYING LAND. 
          UM, AND, UM, FIVE OF THOSE PARKS, UM, ARE, ARE SENIOR PARKS, UM, THAT ARE PROTECTED UNDER THE SENIOR OVERLAY. 
          UM, WE'RE DEFENDING ACTIVELY TWO LAWSUITS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO, UM, AS PART OF THE ONGOING EFFORTS TO PREVENT, UH, PETALUMA AND ITS CITIZENS FROM USING AND ACCESSING ITS BEAUTIFUL LAFFERTY RANCH PROPERTY THAT LITERALLY OVERLOOKS THE WHOLE PETALUMA VALLEY. 
          UM, UM, WE EXPECT TO PREVAIL IN THOSE LAWSUITS TOO. 
          THOSE ARE, THAT'S IMPORTANT ACTION DIRECTED BY THE COUNCIL TO ENSURE THE PUBLIC'S ACCESS TO ITS PROPERTY, AND ALSO ITS OF THE CITY'S ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THAT PROPERTY. 
          UM, AT, AT LAFFERTY, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, THERE ARE DOCENT LED TOURS BEING CONDUCTED. 
          THERE'S ALSO BEEN LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY THAT THE COUNCIL HAS TAKEN TO, UM, CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THOSE TOURS AND THE ACCESS OF THE PUBLIC. 
          UM, AND NOW I'LL JUST, I'M GONNA COVER THE LAST SLIDE TO NOTE THAT OUR OFFICE IS ALSO ACTIVELY REPRESENTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS, UM, SUCH AS, UH, THERE'S STILL A PENDING APPEAL, UM, REGARDING THE, UM, CANNABIS ONSITE RETAIL SALES PERMITTING THAT, UM, THAT OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR MENTIONED. 
          AND, AND, UM, I APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS OF MY COLLEAGUE JORDAN GREEN IN OUR OFFICE, UM, REPRESENTING US IN THOSE HEARINGS, UM, AND PROTECTING THE SCHEME THAT, UM, IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION ABOUT PROVIDING FOR THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE FORM OF, UM, RETAIL CANNABIS, RE RETAIL CANNABIS SALES IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND NOW, JUST QUICKLY ON SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY, A NUMBER OF THESE EFFORTS, UM, YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD MENTIONED BY OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BECAUSE NOT SURPRISINGLY, MUCH OF WHAT WE DO IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT IS IN SUPPORT OF THE PROGRAMS THAT OUR COLLEAGUES IN THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE LEADING ON. 
          UM, SO THE CANNABIS, UM, ZONING 
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REGULATIONS, ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS AND PERMITTING PROCESS, UM, ARE, ARE ONE OF THE MAJOR PROJECTS WE'VE WORKED ON, THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT, OF COURSE, BEING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, I MENTIONED, UM, THE MOBILE HOME, UM, LITIGATION, BUT ALSO WE'VE BEEN ACTIVE, UM, UM, PREPARING LEGISLATIVE UPDATES FOR THE CITY'S REGULATION IN TWO ROUNDS OF UPDATES FOR THE MOBILE HOME SPACE, RENT STABILIZATION REGULATIONS TO PRESERVE THAT HOUSING. 
          UM, THE, UH, CHIEF MILLER MENTIONED, UM, THE WORK TO CODIFY THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA'S COMMITMENT TO CIVILIAN POLICE OVERSIGHT, WHICH WE'VE REALLY ALWAYS HAD, BUT NOW HAS BEEN UPDATED AND CODIFIED IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS, UM, THAT THE CITY HELD, UM, IN RESPONSE TO THE, UM, GEORGE FLOYD MURDERS, UM, AND ALL THE, THE HELPFUL COMMUNITY INPUT AND COUNCIL DIRECTION IN RESPONSE TO THAT. 
          UM, WE, UH, I, I CAN REPORT TONIGHT THAT, UM, THE ACTION THAT THE COUNCIL JUST TOOK TO, UH, CONVERT ITS, UH, BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION REGULATIONS TO A POLICY THAT, UM, THAT, UM, ENCOURAGES BUT, BUT DOES NOT REQUIRE ELECTRIFICATION, UM, WAS IMPORTANT TO, UM, MOOT THE LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WHICH THEY, WHICH THEY HAVE IN FACT DISMISSED. 
          WE'VE JUST GOT CONFIRMATION TODAY FROM THE COURT AS A RESULT OF THE COUNCIL'S ACTION. 
          UM, BUT IT'S ALSO CLEAR, UM, THE COUNCIL'S COMMITMENT TO, UM, UH, CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE THROUGH BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION AND ENCOURAGING THAT. 
          UM, UH, JUST SEE, I GUESS THE LAST ONE I'LL MENTION, UM, THERE'S OTHERS, BUT FOR, FOR SAKE OF TIME, I'LL MENTION THAT. 
          UM, THERE, THERE HAS PART OF THE, UM, THE EFFORTS TO MAXIMIZE USES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          THERE WAS MORE, UM, ZONING ACTIVITY FOR THAT TO BROADEN THE RANGES OF USES THAT CAN OCCUR THERE AND ARE OCCURRING THERE. 
          AND ALSO FOR THE ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE, UM, EXCITING NEW PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY THAT THAT IS, UM, THAT IS GOING TO BE, UM, UM, BUILT ON THE SITE. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU. 
          THAT CONCLUDES THE HIGH POINT OF, UM, WHAT THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PROUD TO BE WORKING ON IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR COLLEAGUES. 
          THANK YOU, ERIC. 
          WE'VE GOT DEB FOX COMING. 
          UH, HI AGAIN. 
          UM, SO ONE OF THE OTHER HATS THAT I LIKE TO SAY THAT I WEAR IS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, BUILDING OUR COMMUNITY NETWORK. 
          UM, NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE UP OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND WE HAVE AMAZING ORGANIZATIONS AND OUR COMMUNITY THAT HELP US DO THE WORK THAT WE DO, UM, REBUILDING TOGETHER WITH THEIR GRAFFITI REMOVAL, AND THEY HELP US AT THE FAIR. 
          THEY HAVE THEIR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DAILY ACTS WITH THE, UH, FRONT, UH, ENTRANCE THAT YOU ALL HAVE SEEN. 
          MULCHED WORK. 
          THEY HELP US DO, UH, PLANTING OUT FRONT WITH 500 NEW TREES ON, OR EXCUSE ME, PLANTS ON EARTH DAY. 
          THEY DO SO MUCH MORE AS IT RELATES TO OUR WATER CONSERVATION PROGRAMS RELIEF, PUTTING THE TREES IN THE GROUND THAT WE NEED SO DESPERATELY AS OUR HEAT IN, UH, RISES. 
          UH, LIKE WE HAD THIS LAST WEEK, WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE TREES FOR SHADE. 
          CAFE PUENTE. 
          UM, WE HAVE A, AN, THEY HELPED US CREATE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT ALLOWS A TWO-WAY STREET FOR US TO HEAR FROM OUR SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY, WHAT THEY, UH, NEED OR WHAT THEY, UH, GIVE FEEDBACK ON OF OUR PROGRAMS. UH, THEY GAVE FEEDBACK ON OUR, UH, GENERAL PLAN. 
          UH, WE ALSO DO A LOT MORE WITH CAFE PUENTE AS IT RELATES TO HELPING TO GET OUR, UH, UH, COMMISSIONERS, NEW COMMISSIONERS ONTO OUR, UH, COMMITTEE'S, COMMISSIONS, AND BOARDS, OF COURSE. 
          COOL PETALUMA, WHO DOES OUR, UH, CLIMATE ACTION ON THE RESIDENTIAL, UH, LEVEL. 
          AND THE TEAM BUILDING THAT THEY DO ON THE BLOCKS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THAT BLUEPRINT FOR CLIMATE ACTION FEDERAL MORE PEOPLE SERVICES, ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY DO THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR, UH, CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH ON OTHERS THAT AREN'T ON THEIR SCHOOLS. 
          UH, WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS, UH, TO DO, WE'RE PART OF THEIR CLIMATE ACTION TASK FORCE. 
          UH, WE ALSO, UH, CAPSTONE PROGRAM OVER AT CASA IS HOW THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO CAME AND SPOKE AT LAST WEEK'S MEETING, SHE PARTICIPATED IN, UH, A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWED HER TO HEAR FROM CITY STAFF, UH, ABOUT SOME ISSUES THAT WE DEAL WITH IN TERMS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. 
          SHE LEARNED. 
          THERE WAS A WHOLE GROUP OF THEM THAT HAVE LEARNED ABOUT OUR GRAZING PROGRAM, OUR BIOFUELS TO BIOMASS. 
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UH, I THINK I SAID THAT BACKWARDS, . 
          UH, WE HAVE OUR PETALUMA HEALTH CENTER. 
          THERE'S LOW CN THAT WE WORK WITH, OF COURSE, COTS, SONOMA FAMILY MEALS IS ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMS. IT'S ALSO A WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          THE ARTS CENTER, WHICH IS OF COURSE ANOTHER ELEMENT THAT IS IMPORTANT TO BRING INTO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          'CAUSE IT HELPS US REALLY CONNECT IN AND, AND, UH, EXPERIENCE THE ARTS. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S MANY THAT WERE, THE STAFF HAS ALREADY TALKED ABOUT AS RELATES TO BLUE ZONES AND THE SUPPORT THAT THEY DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          THERE'S THE OS PROGRAM THAT, UH, ALLOWS US TO HAVE OUR, UH, BUS STOPS, UH, CLEANED. 
          THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT I HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED ON, BUT JUST WANNA REALLY EMPHASIZE THAT IS WHAT MAKES US A PEOPLE POWERED. 
          PETALUMA. 
          UH, I'M PROUD TO, UH, WORK WITH A LOT OF THOSE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MORE, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE LOOKING FOR GRANT FUNDING TO SUPPORT OUR WORK. 
          SO, UH, REALLY IT'S, WE CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH FOR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO IN PAST YEARS, THE, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OR CIP UPDATE WAS, UH, TAKEN SEPARATELY, NOT PART OF THESE GOALS AND PRIORITIES DISCUSSIONS. 
          AND INSTEAD, UM, UPDATED, UH, UPDATE WAS PROVIDED WITH THE BUDGET WORKSHOP TYPICALLY HELD IN MAY, BUT WITH THE REALLY INCREASED LEVEL OF INVESTMENT, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS BEING PUT TOWARDS THE CIP, UH, IT, WE THOUGHT IT MADE SENSE TO AT LEAST PROVIDE A, A BRIEF UPDATE HERE. 
          UM, TONIGHT, AS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION, UH, WE'VE BEEN PUTTING, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING A LOT OF RESOURCES, BOTH BUDGET AND STAFF TIME TOWARDS THE CIP AND WE WANTED THE, THE TIME, THE ENERGY, THE LEVEL OF FOCUS THAT WE'RE PLACING INTO THE CIP TO BE PART OF THIS CONVERSATION TONIGHT. 
          UH, AS MENTIONED EARLIER, OUR AGING INFRASTRUCTURE HAS TAKEN MANY YEARS TO GET TO ITS CURRENT STATE. 
          UM, AND IT'S GONNA TAKE US YEARS TO CATCH UP. 
          UH, WE DON'T, UH, TO, TO CATCH UP WITH ALL THE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. 
          UH, WE CAN'T GET TO EVERYTHING AT ONCE, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MAKE, WE'RE CHIPPING AWAY AT IT. 
          WE'RE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS AS WE DELIVER EACH CIP PROJECT. 
          OUR CIP TEAM IS WORKING, UH, WITH DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY TO ADVANCE PROJECTS IN ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAM AREAS, FROM STREETS AND UTILITIES TO PARKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 
          WE STILL, WE STILL PLAN TO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE, UH, A COMPREHENSIVE CIP UPDATE AS PART OF THE, THE WORKSHOP IN MAY. 
          UH, BUT WE WANTED TO SHARE A FEW HIGHLIGHTS TONIGHT, UM, AND A REMINDER OF SOME OF THE CIP PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DELIVERED TO THE COMMUNITY OVER THE PAST YEAR. 
          UH, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DREW TO HELP US, UH, CELEBRATE. 
          OH, THERE HE IS,  TO CELEBRATE A FEW OF OUR PARKS PROJECTS WITH THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          WITH, THANK YOU PAUL. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING AGAIN. 
          COUNSEL. 
          DREW HALTER, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          SO WE'RE CALLING THE 20 25 20 26 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PARKS PROJECTS EDITION, THE YEAR OF SURF AND TURF. 
          YOU READY? OKAY. 
          UH, SO THIS YEAR, AGAIN MARKED A FEW MILESTONES IN REINVESTING IN SOME OF THE MOST, UH, HEAVILY USED PARK FACILITIES AND PLACES, INCLUDING THE LUCCHESE ALL WEATHER SYNTHETIC TURF FIELD, AS WELL AS THE SWIM CENTER AND 50 METER POOL, AS WELL AS THE WAITING POOL. 
          SO AFTER AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS, ONE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF HOW OUR COMMUNITY, UH, HAS, HAS, UM, ENGAGED, UH, THE LUCAS'S TURF FIELD, WHICH WAS LAST REPLACED IN 2009, FIRST INSTALLED IN THE YEAR 1999. 
          2000, UH, IS SET TO BE COMPLETED IN THE NEXT, UH, TWO WEEKS. 
          SO NEXT SLIDE HERE. 
          THE PROJECT INCLUDED REMOVING ALL OF THE EXISTING CRUMB RUBBER, ADDING NEW DRAINAGE SYSTEM, A NEW COMPACTION PAD, A NEW BIODEGRADABLE INFILL CONSISTED OF ALL OF PITS AND SAND, WHICH IS THE FIRST SYSTEM OF THE CITY. 
          AND AS PART OF THE PROJECT, THE PUBLIC WORKS TEAM WAS ALSO ABLE TO PULL TOGETHER AN IN-HOUSE DESIGN FOR A NEW PARKING LOT CONFIGURATION, UH, AND IMPROVEMENTS THERE, INCLUDING THE CONCRETE RETAINING WALLS, THE A DA, UH, PARKING STALLS, DRINKING FOUNTAINS, AND THE FIVE ELM TREES THAT YOU SEE PICTURED HERE IN THE RIGHT. 
          UH, SO AGAIN, REALLY CREATIVE TEAM WITH PUBLIC WORKS CAME IN, NOT JUST, UH, ON BUDGET, BUT, UH, WITH SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE THAT WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO GET HAPPEN. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SHIFTING TO THE SURF EDITION. 
          UM, THIS YEAR WE COMPLETED THE PETALUMA SWIM CENTER POOL, OR PLASTERING PROJECT, AS WELL AS THE WAITING POOL. 
          SIMILARLY TO LUC CASEY, THIS WAS A 
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SIGNIFICANT UNDERTAKING. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT PICTURE ON THE RIGHT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT 'CAUSE IT JUST SHOWS YOU EXPANSE OF WHAT A A 50 METER POOL, UH, REALLY LOOKS LIKE. 
          THIS WAS LAST RE PLASTERED IN THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS AND PRIOR TO RE PLASTERING BOTH POOLS. 
          THIS IMAGE ON THE LEFT, ALTHOUGH IT DOES MAKE ME CRINGE A LITTLE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE SURFACE IS REACHING A POINT WHERE POOL PATRONS WERE WRITING MESSAGES FOR US AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL, UH, IN BETWEEN PRACTICES ASKING FOR HELP. 
          SO, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THIS ONE AND HELPING TO ANSWER THOSE MESSAGES. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND I JUST WANNA SIT HERE AND IN AWE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO THE NEWLY RE PLASTERED POOL, AGAIN, THE PUBLIC'S WORK TEAM, UM, WAS ABLE TO BUILD INTO THIS PROJECT A NEW STEPS FOR THE WAITING POOL, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANT. 
          THIS ADDS NOT JUST SAFETY OF, UH, FAMILIES ENTERING THE WATER, BUT ALSO INCREASES OUR ABILITY FOR INSTRUCTORS TO TEACH CLASSES IN THE, IN THE POOL. 
          ALSO, AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE WERE ABLE TO, UH, RETROFIT LIGHTING BOTH INSIDE THE POOL AS WELL AS THE DECK LIGHTING, UH, WITH LED EFFICIENT, UH, AND ENERGY EFFICIENT, UM, BULBS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO, LASTLY, ROUNDING OUT THE PARKS CAPITAL PROJECTS. 
          THIS YEAR WAS THE COMPLETION OF THE OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL CLASSROOM. 
          DON'T CALL ME AN AMPHITHEATER AT SCHULLENBERGER PARK. 
          THAT WAS FOR, UH, THIS STARTED AS A, A VISION FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE PETALUMA WETLANDS ALLIANCE IN 2017, UH, THE LATE AL HESLER WHO HELPED THE CITY SECURE GRANT FUNDING FOR BUILDING A COMMUNITY SPACE TO FOSTER WETLAND EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, AS PAUL CAN THINK, MENTIONED, SOME PROJECTS, UH, REQUIRE TIME TO MARINATE. 
          THIS WAS CERTAINLY ONE OF THEM, BUT IN THE END, WITH A NEW PROJECT TEAM THAT, THAT PICKED THIS ONE UP, UM, AND THE PROGRAMMING NEEDS REALLY CHANGED THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. 
          SO, UH, ALTHOUGH THIS WAS A PROJECT THAT, UH, A LOT OF FOLKS WERE REALLY EAGER AND ANTICIPATING ITS IN INSTALLATION, TAKING THAT TIME RE-ENGAGING THE PETALUMA WETLANDS ALLIANCE, SEEING HOW PROGRAMMING CHANGED, HOW IT WOULD BE UTILIZED, REALLY ALLOWED US TO DELIVER A MUCH BETTER, MORE AUTHENTIC PROJECT IN THE END WITH A SMALLER FOOTPRINT, UH, MORE THOUGHTFUL SIGHT LINES. 
          UH, AND WE'RE JUST REALLY PROUD THAT, UM, THIS SPRING, AGAIN, THAT TRADITION OF, OF TAKING EVERY THIRD GRADER OUT, UH, FROM PETALUMA TO THE WETLANDS TO LEARN ABOUT HABITAT RESTORATION AND STEWARDSHIP, UH, IS, IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE REALLY, UM, POWERFUL FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND TO EXPAND ON THAT VIEW, WE'LL BRING UP FOLKS FROM ELLIS CREEK. 
          THERE YOU ARE. 
          SO THIS LAST YEAR WE COMPLETED THE ELLIS CREEK FLOATING SOLAR PROJECT. 
          NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST IN CALIFORNIA AT SIX MEGAWATTS CAN ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          CAITLIN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN FULLY OPERATIONAL SINCE SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR, AND IS OFFSETTING MOST OF THE FACILITIES ONSITE ELECTRICITY USE, REDUCING THE RELIANCE ON GRID POWER, AND SUPPORTING OUR GOAL OF CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030. 
          STAFFER TRACKING FIRST YEAR PERFORMANCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW SEASONAL PRODUCTION ALIGNS WITH ANNUAL EN ENERGY USE. 
          THIS PROJECT REQUIRED NO UPFRONT COST TO THE CITY THROUGH A POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT. 
          THE DEVELOPER FINANCED, BUILT AND MAINTAINS THE SYSTEM, AND THE CITY PURCHASES THE POWER AT BELOW MARKET RATES. 
          ESTIMATED SAVINGS ARE ABOUT 450,000 ANNUALLY, WITH OVER 11 MILLION ACROSS 20 YEARS. 
          AND WE'RE IN THE FIRST YEAR NOW, UM, TO CONFIRM THOSE SAVINGS OPERATIONS ARE MANAGED BY A THIRD PARTY PROVIDER WITH TWICE YEARLY SERVICE AND STAFF CONTINUE WORKING WITH WHITE PINE ON ADDITIONAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPPORTUNITIES. 
          OVERALL, THIS PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS PETALUMA'S COMMITMENT TO SUSTAIN SUSTAINABILITY AND LONG-TERM COST SAVINGS. 
          SO WE'RE NEARING COMPLETION OF THE TERTIARY UPGRADES PROJECT AT ELLIS CREEK. 
          THIS PROJECT INCREASES RECYCLED WATER CAPACITY TO MEET PEAK SUMMER DEMAND, AND SUPPORTS FUTURE SYSTEM EXPANSION. 
          ELLIS CREEK WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO PRODUCE UP TO 4.8 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF TERTIARY RECYCLED WATER. 
          AND THIS PROJECT EXPANDS TREATMENT CAPACITY TO 6.8 MGD WITH THE ADDITION OF TWO NEW CLOTH MEDIA FILTERS AND A THIRD UV DISINFECTION SYSTEM WITH THE EXISTING CHANNEL CONSTRUCTION ON THIS PROJECT BEGAN IN EARLY 2023, SUPPORTED BY A $3.6 MILLION STATE GRANT. 
          MAJOR COMPONENTS ARE NOW COMPLETE. 
          THE UV SYSTEM WAS APPROVED FOR USE LAST SUMMER, AND THE FILTER EXPANSION IS OPERATIONAL WITH FINAL OP OPTIMIZATION UNDERWAY. 
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THE CONTRACT CLOSEOUT FOR THIS PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO GO TO COUNCIL LATER THIS YEAR. 
          THANK YOU, CHELS. 
          NOW WE'LL WALK THROUGH ONGOING AND PROPOSED PRIORITY AREAS WHERE WE'RE SEEKING YOUR INPUT AND PRIORITIZATION. 
          AND PAUL, YOU'RE GONNA KICK THIS OFF. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          YEAH, SO STARTING OFF WITH THE CIP, UH, REPAIRING OUR STREETS, UH, CONTINUES TO BE A TOP PRIORITY AND WE'RE EXCITED, UH, TO, UH, TO HAVE SEVERAL PAVING PROJECTS PLANNED FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. 
          WHEN WE DO PAVING, UH, IT'S NOT JUST PAVING, RIGHT? SO WE LOOK AT THE UTILITIES, UNDERGROUND UTILITIES THAT ARE EXISTING, THE WATER AND SEWER, UH, SEWER PIPES, UH, TO SEE WHAT THE CONDITION IS OF THOSE AND TO SEE IF THOSE NEED TO BE REPAIRED OR REPLACED PRIOR TO PAVING. 
          WE ALSO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY, AS I MENTIONED BRIEFLY EARLIER, TO INCORPORATE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ELEMENTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND CONNECTIVITY. 
          SO I'LL GO DOWN THE LIST HERE BRIEFLY. 
          UH, RAINIER AVENUE JUST STARTED CONSTRUCTION. 
          THAT'S FROM, UH, NORTH MCDOWELL TO CINEMA MOUNTAIN PARKWAY. 
          UH, THAT PAVING WILL BE COMPLETE BY THIS FALL. 
          YOU MAY RECALL ALSO THAT UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS WERE COMPLETED IN 2025 ALONG RAINIER COFIELD LANE, UH, THAT GOES FROM PAYAN TO GARFIELD DRIVE. 
          WE PLAN TO COMPLETE, COMPLETE THE DESIGN FOR COFIELD BY THE END OF, UH, 2026 WITH CONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR 2027. 
          SIMILARLY, HOWARD STREET, WHICH GOES FROM A STREET TO WEST STREET, UM, THAT ONE WILL INCLUDE SEWER AND WATER MAINS IN HOWARD. 
          UH, WE WE'RE WORKING ON THE DESIGN NOW FOR HOWARD, UH, AND THAT DESIGN WILL BE COMPLETE IN 2026 WITH CONSTRUCTION FOR BOTH UTILITY AND PAVING WORK PLAN FOR 2027, MOVING TO D STREET, UH, WHICH GOES FROM THE BOULEVARD, UH, OUT TO SOUTH CITY LIMITS. 
          THE D STREET PROJECT WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE REPLACEMENT OF SEWER AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE PRIOR TO PAVING. 
          UH, THE DESIGN WILL BE COMPLETED IN 2027 WITH CONSTRUCTION FOR BOTH THE UTILITY AND PAVING WORK PLANNED FOR 2028. 
          IN ADDITION TO THOSE, UH, PAVING RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, WE ALSO, UH, HAVE OUR ANNUAL PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE, UH, PROJECT OR SLURRY SEAL. 
          UM, NOT ALL CANDIDATES, NOT ALL STREETS ARE GOOD CANDIDATES FOR SLURRY SEAL. 
          UH, BUT IT'S AN, UH, EXTREMELY COST-EFFECTIVE TREATMENT TYPE FOR, UH, TRYING TO KEEP OUR, OUR ROWS THAT ARE IN GOOD CON GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD CONDITION. 
          UH, WE BUDGET APPROXIMATELY 800,000 EACH YEAR, UH, SO THAT WE CAN DELIVER A SLURRY PROJECT, UH, EACH SUMMER OR FALL. 
          UH, AND I'LL HAND IT OVER TO CHELSEA. 
          SO, HAVE YOU HEARD A COUPLE TIMES ALREADY? A KEY PRIORITY THIS YEAR FOR THE CITY IS THE PIP'S PARALLEL FORCE MAIN PROJECT. 
          PIP STANDS FOR PLANT IN FLUENT PUMP STATION. 
          THIS PROJECT WILL INSTALL A NEW TWO AND A HALF MILE LONG 42 INCH HDPE FORCE MAIN FROM THE PIP'S PUMP STATION ON HOPPER STREET TO THE ELLIS CREEK FACILITY. 
          THE EXISTING LINE, WHICH WAS INSTALLED IN 1973, IS OVER 50 YEARS OLD AND NEARING END OF ITS SERVICE LIFE. 
          THIS PIPELINE IS CRITICAL FOR CON CONVEYING THE CITY'S WASTEWATER TO ELLIS CREEK FOR TREATMENT DUE TO ITS AGE LOCATION NEAR CALTRANS AND SMART INFRASTRUCTURE AND LACK OF REDUNDANCY PREVENTS RELIABILITY RISKS. 
          THE PROJECT WILL BUILD A PARALLEL FORCE MAIN ALONGSIDE THE EXISTING FORCE MAIN ADDING REDUNDANCY AND IMPROVING SYSTEM RELIABILITY. 
          THIS IS A MAJOR GENERATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT. 
          CURRENTLY, THE TEAM IS FINALIZING PER PERMITS WITH REGULATORY AGENCIES SECURING NECESSARY EASEMENTS. 
          EASEMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO GO TO COUNCIL THIS SPRING WITH BIDDING THIS SUMMER, AND CONTRACT AWARDS START TARGETED FOR SEPTEMBER. 
          ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION ON THE PARALLEL FORCE MAIN IS ABOUT 44 MILLION WITH ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR CONTINGENCY AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. 
          OVERALL, THIS PROJECT IS CRITICAL TO ENSURE LONG-TERM WASTEWATER SYSTEM RELIABILITY AND REMAINS A TOP PRIORITY, ALONG WITH THE FORCE. 
          MAIN, UM, IS THE PIPS PUMP STATION. 
          SO ORIGINALLY THE PIP CIP PLANNED FOR PUMP UPGRADES AT THE PUMP STATION, WHICH CONVEYS WASTEWATER TO ELLIS CREEK. 
          A RECENT 2025 CONDITION ASSESSMENT IDENTIFIED SEVERAL KEY CHALLENGES. 
          THE FACILITY HAS  VULNERABILITIES AND IT PREDATES CURRENT STANDARDS ALONG WITH SPACE CONSTRAINTS THAT MAKE MAINTENANCE AND PUMP REPLACEMENT DIFFICULT. 
          BECAUSE THE PUMP STATION OPERATES 24 7, MAJOR CONSTRUCTION WOULD REQUIRE EXPEN, UM, EXTENSIVE BYPASS PUMPING, ADDING COMPLEXITY AND COST BASED ON CONDITION ASSESSMENT FINDINGS. 
          THE CITY'S MOVING FORWARD WITH FULL REPLACEMENT OF THE PUMP STATION TO IMPROVE LONG-TERM RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY WHILE ALIGNING THIS WORK WITH THE PARALLEL FORCE MAIN WILL BE IDEAL. 
          WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THIS MIGHT BE CHALLENGING. 
          TOGETHER, THESE PROJECTS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE SYSTEM RESILIENCY AND REDUCE THE RISK OF SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS. 
          SO FOR THE PUMP STATION DESIGN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN MARCH, 2026, 
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UM, THIS MONTH AND RUN THROUGH EARLY 2027. 
          BIDDING IS PLANNED FOR MARCH, 2027 WITH CONTRACT REWARD AROUND MAY IN CONSTRUCTION FROM JULY OF 2027 THROUGH MARCH OF 2028. 
          UH, THE CURRENT ESTIMATE FOR THE PUMP STATION IS ABOUT 1 MILLION FOR DESIGN AND 24 MILLION FOR CONSTRUCTION. 
          AND TO SUPPORT BOTH OF THESE PIPS PROJECTS, THE CITY'S PLANNING A WASTEWATER BOND ISSUANCE, WHICH WILL BE DISCUSSED LATER IN TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS, THIS NEXT YEAR, UH, YOU'LL BE SEEING THE COMMITTEE WILL BE SEEING TWO SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT ARE PART OF OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, UH, THERE THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY MASTER PLAN AS WELL, AND WILL BE FUNDED BY, UM, MOSTLY BY MEASURE U AND BY MEASURE H, THE FIRST BEING, UM, PETALUMA'S D STREET FIRE STATION NUMBER ONE THAT IS GONNA BE RECEIVING A SIGNIFICANT SEISMIC UPGRADE AND OTHER SAFETY UPGRADES AND CONSTRUCTION ON THAT BEGAN LAST WEEK, AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT PROJECT TO BE COMPLETED BY THIS TIME OF NEXT YEAR. 
          IN THE MEANTIME, OUR FIRE ENGINE AND PARAMEDIC AMBULANCE ARE HOUSED IN A TEMPORARY FIRE STATION ON PEDAL AND BOULEVARD SOUTH TO CONTINUE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS ON THE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN. 
          THE SECOND PROJECT IS, UH, THE PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY. 
          THEY'LL BE LOCATED AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          I'LL LET BRIAN SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE'VE, UH, HAD QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT NEW FACILITY. 
          WE'VE CLEARED ALL THE SIGNIFICANT HURDLES AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION HERE FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          UH, WE'VE RECENTLY RECEIVED THE REQUESTS FOR QUALIFICATIONS BACK AND WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OUR PUBLIC WORK PARTNERS TO REVIEW AND START EVALUATING THOSE QUALIFICATIONS. 
          WE'RE ON TRACK WITH THAT, THAT PROCESS, WHICH THE CHIEF AND MYSELF ARE LEARNING A LOT ABOUT THE PUBLIC WORKS, UM, PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES AND THE BIDDING PROCESSES AND, UM, THINGS THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT. 
          UM, AND I BELIEVE IN MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THE TIMELINE THAT'S BEEN PUBLISHED IN THAT PACKET THAT WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE CONTINUED CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BOND BONDING AND CON OH, UM, CONSTRUCTION AWARD AND CONTRACTS, AND LATER IN THIS SPRING AND, AND, UH, EARLY SUMMER, UM, WITH HOPES TO BE UNDER, UH, HOPEFULLY UNDER CONTRACT, UM, BY THE TIME AROUND JULY. 
          UM, AND THEN HOPEFULLY, UH, UH, AS THINGS PROGRESS TO BE, UM, SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED WITH CONSTRUCTION IN, UH, UH, WHAT'S IT, SUMMER? SUMMER OF MARCH OF MARCH OF 2028. 
          SUMMER OF 2028. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO EVERYTHING'S BEEN PROCEEDING, UH, ACCORDINGLY AND, AND WE COULDN'T BE MORE ECSTATIC, UH, WITH THE PROGRESSION OF THE PROJECT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, I WILL TAKE THE NEXT ONE. 
          SO, WANTED TO EMPHASIZE, UH, FISCAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR A FEW MOMENTS. 
          AND THIS HAS BEEN AN EMPHASIS FOR US OVER THE YEARS, AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE, UH, AND YOU MAY SEE SOME RAMPED UP EMPHASIS ON, UH, FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY IN THE COMING YEAR. 
          SO ABOUT 10 MONTHS AGO, WE BROUGHT TO THE COUNCIL A WORKSHOP JUST TO KIND OF GIVE A REFRESHER ON WHAT WE LOOKED AT BACK IN 2020 AND 2021, UH, MORE ON THE EXPENSE AND THE INVESTMENT SIDE OF, OF THE LEDGER. 
          AND WE, UH, WE HAD MANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF EMPHASIS IN THAT PRESENTATION. 
          AND SO WANTED TO, UH, GO INTO A FEW OF THESE IN A, A BIT MORE DETAIL. 
          SO FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE JUST GOING TO BE FOCUSING ON THE OVERALL BUDGET, UH, IN THE UPCOMING YEAR AND ENSURING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO PROVIDE CORE SERVICES. 
          REVENUE GROWTH HAS SLOWED WHILE COSTS CONTINUE TO ESCALATE, AND THERE IS LITTLE TO NO FLEXIBILITY IN THE BUDGET AT THIS TIME. 
          AND YOU WILL HEAR FROM STAFF AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP IN MAY. 
          UH, SOME OF THE STRATEGIES ON HOW WE'RE BALANCING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY WITH FINITE RESOURCES AND FINITE RESOURCES INCLUDES MEASURE U, WHICH HAS ENABLED US TO TRANSFORM THE ORGANIZATION AND RESPOND TO THOSE TOP MEASURE U PRIORITIES THAT YOU HEARD ABOUT EARLIER. 
          BUT EVEN MEASURE U IS LIMITED. 
          SO LIKE THE ORIGINAL PRESENTATION THAT AGAIN, FOCUSED ON EXPENSES AND INVESTMENT STAFF ARE ALSO WORKING ON A REVENUES WORKSHOP THAT WE WILL BRING TO COUNCIL TO LEARN ABOUT AND CONSIDER A VARIETY OF POTENTIAL NEW REVENUE OPTIONS. 
          A KEY COMPONENT OF THE MEASURE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WAS WORKFORCE STABILIZATION, WHICH INCLUDED BRINGING BOTH STAFF COMPENSATION UP TO MARKET AND AN EMPHASIS AND A CONTINUATION OF PROVIDING REGULAR ANNUAL COLAS OR COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS TO STAY COMPETITIVE IN THE MARKET 
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AND RECRUIT AND RETAIN TALENTED STAFF. 
          AND IN 2026, AS WE LOOK TO THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR, ALL LABOR AGREEMENTS ARE UP FOR NEGOTIATION. 
          SO WE CONTINUE TO BE FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING OVERALL COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING OUR RESOURCE LIMITATIONS AND BRINGING CREATIVE PROPOSALS TO THE BARGAINING TABLE. 
          YOU HEARD A BIT ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING FROM BRIAN OS THAT WILL ALSO BE AN EMPHASIS THIS YEAR. 
          AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CREATES BENEFITS FOR THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF ROBUST JOB CREATION, BUSINESS GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES AND THRIVING SHOPPING AND ENTERTAINMENT LOCATIONS. 
          UH, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE THE BENEFIT OF BOOSTING CITY REVENUES THAT CAN BE REINVESTED INTO COMMUNITY SERVICES. 
          ANOTHER STRATEGY THAT WE'VE BEGUN ANALYZING IS THE UTILIZATION OF CITY FACILITIES AND PROPERTIES TO DETERMINE WHAT WE SHOULD KEEP, UH, WHAT WE SHOULD SELL AS SURPLUS FOR OTHER USES AND WHICH BUILDINGS MAKE SENSE TO CONTINUE INVESTING IN AND WHICH DO NOT. 
          AND YOU'VE SEEN THIS ALREADY PLAY OUT A BIT, UH, JEFF MENTIONED A MINUTE AGO, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES MASTER PLAN, AND WE PLAN TO EXPAND ON THAT TYPE OF ANALYSIS TO ALL CITY PROPERTIES. 
          OUR FOCUS WILL BE ON ORGANIZING, OR EXCUSE ME, OPTIMIZING, UM, THE USAGE OF CITY REAL ESTATE FOR COMMUNITY BENEFIT. 
          AND WHETHER THAT MEANS CONTINUED CITY OWNERSHIP IN THOSE PROPERTIES OR PERHAPS NOT, AND RECOMMENDING BETTER UTILIZATION OPTIONS AND ACHIEVING POTENTIAL REVENUE, UH, REVENUES FROM PROPERTY SALES. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, UH, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT A FEW PROJECTS TONIGHT THAT WILL REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN TERMS OF CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND WE WILL BE RECOMMENDING SEVERAL BOND ISSUANCES TO COUNCIL IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS TO GET THOSE PROJECTS FUNDED AND BUILT. 
          UH, LEVERAGING OUR NEW MEASURE H FIRE SALES TAX REVENUES, AS WELL AS MEASURE U TO CONSTRUCT THE SAFETY FACILITY, UH, ADDING A FOURTH FIRE STATION, REPLACING OUR OUT-OF-DATE POLICE STATION AND NEW EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER. 
          AND THEN, AS CHELSEA MENTIONED A FEW MOMENTS AGO, A WASTEWATER REVENUE BOND TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PIPS PARALLEL FORCE MAIN, AND A PORTION OF THE PUMP STATION PROJECT, WHICH AT LEAST OCCURRING, UH, ACCORDING TO OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL FORECASTING, CAN BE ACCOMMODATED WITHIN THE EXISTING RATE STRUCTURE, UH, FOR WASTEWATER. 
          SO THESE ARE, IT'S JUST A, A SNAPSHOT AND A PREVIEW OF SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE HEARING ABOUT, UH, OVER THE NEXT YEAR FROM STAFF. 
          AND THEY WILL REQUIRE THOUGHTFUL, CREATIVE AND OPEN-MINDED APPROACHES TO MANAGING CITY FINANCES WHILE ALSO KEEPING THE COUNCIL'S GOALS IN MIND AND THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR THINKING. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THANK YOU, BRIAN. 
          AS WE LOOK TO THIS NEXT YEAR, THE FOLLOWING OUR SERVICE AREAS THAT WE EXPECT TO STABILIZE AND OR TRANSFORM, UM, OUR MOBILE CRISIS AND SAFE TEAM, THEY'RE FUNDED BY MEASURE O, UM, FUNDING THAT IS, UM, THE CITY GENERATES ALL THE CITIES IN THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY GENERATE FOR A COUNTYWIDE MEASURE ON MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES. 
          UM, IT'S CURRENTLY BEING THREATENED, UM, FOR REDUCTION, WHICH, UM, IT FUNDS OUR MOBILE CRISIS SAFE TEAM. 
          SO OUR SOUTH COUNTY PARTNERS, ALONG WITH OUR NONPROFIT PARTNER THAT HELPS US, UH, PUT SAFE, UM, TOGETHER AND OPERATE SAFE AND MANAGE SAFE. 
          UM, WE ARE HAVING TO COME UP WITH, UM, OTHER OPTIONS, UM, AND HOW TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY RE-IMAGINING TRANSIT. 
          UM, CURRENTLY WE'RE FACING A DEFICIT IN TRANSIT, SO RE-IMAGINING TRANSIT TO BE EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT, SUSTAINABLE. 
          AND OUR TRA UH, TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD ON SOME OPTIONS TO BRING TO COUNCIL THE FUNDING STRATEGY TO SUSTAIN OUR SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS IN HOMELESSNESS, UM, PREVENTION AND SUPPORT. 
          AS YOU HEARD EARLIER, WE ARE HEAVILY RELIANT ON STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THAT, UM, PROGRAM, AND THAT IS STARTING TO COME TO AN END. 
          SO WE ARE COMING UP WITH OTHER IDEAS ON HOW TO, UM, CONTINUE THE EXCELLENT WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN, UM, UNDERTAKING OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, COMPLETE THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS AND CONTINUE TO MOVE KEY PLANNING FUNCTIONS IN HOUSE. 
          WE, UM, WE WILL BE COMING TO COUNCIL IN MAY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT OUR PLANNING, UM, DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE INTO, UM, WRITE OUR LANDSCAPING ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS. 
          UM, WE HAVE LIKE 50 OF THEM AND, UM, SOME OF THEM ARE UNDERWATER. 
          SO WE'VE, UM, THAT WAS A FOLLOW UP FROM OUR, UM, MEETING WITH COUNCIL, UH, TO KIND OF WRITE THAT SHIP AND DELIVER ON SERVICE WHILE BEING SUSTAINABLE AFTER BRINGING IN OUR AQUATICS PROGRAM IN HOUSE AFTER A DECADE AND A HALF TO CREATE PROGRAMMING THAT MEETS THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND THAT IS ALSO COST EFFECTIVE AND STABILIZE OUR ANIMAL SERVICES AND PLAN FOR LONG-TERM, BOTH LOCALLY AND 
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COUNTYWIDE. 
          SO REALLY WORKING, UH, WITH OUR, UM, OTHER CITY PARTNERS AND THE COUNTY AND OUR NONPROFITS TO REALLY, UM, STABILIZE THAT SERVICE AND BRING SOME CONTINUITY AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT SERVICE. 
          AND NEXT I'D LIKE TO ASK BRIAN O DELIVER OUR LAST SLIDE. 
          SO AS WE START TO THINK AS A CITY ON HOW TO STABILIZE AND EVOLVE OUR SERVICE DELIVERY, WE DON'T WANNA LOSE SIGHT OF WE LONG-TERM VISION AND THE LONG-TERM PLANNING EFFORTS, UH, THAT WE HAVE EMBARKED ON OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 
          UM, AND SO WHAT'S REALLY EXCITING AS WE START TO SEE THE CULMINATION, THE, UM, EXPECTED ADOPTION OF A NEW GENERAL PLAN IS HOW DO WE AS A COMMUNITY, AS A STAFF GO ABOUT TO IMPLEMENT SAID PLAN. 
          AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF VERY FORWARD THINKING, UM, GOALS, POLICIES, PROGRAMS THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS EXPECTING OF US. 
          AND SO, UH, PUTTING TOGETHER A ROBUST IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, UM, TO CHART OUT FOR THE CITY, UM, DOVETAILING INTO THE TWO SPECIFIC PLANS. 
          UM, SO THOSE ARE, YOU CAN CONSIDER THEM MANY GENERAL PLANS. 
          AND SO WE HAVE, UM, ONE FOR OUR, UH, WHAT WE CALL THE CENTRAL PEDAL IN A SPECIFIC PLAN, BUT IT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON OUR DOWNTOWN SMART STATION, UM, THAT'S 20 PLUS YEARS, UM, OLD NOW. 
          AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT PLAN SAID PLAN, UM, IS IN FULL ALIGNMENT WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY HAVE SET OUT FOR THE GENERAL PLAN. 
          AND SO WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO GET GRANT FUNDING FOR THAT EFFORT. 
          AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO KICK THAT OFF HERE SHORTLY, UM, WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR REGIONAL, UH, PLANNING ORGANIZATION, THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION, UH, COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION AND ABA. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ARE HAVE ALREADY LAUNCHED, UM, A, UH, RE VISIONING REIMAGINING OF OUR NORTH END OF TOWN ON THE EAST SIDE. 
          UM, WE HAVE A SPECIFIC PLAN, UM, UNDERWAY, UM, TO BUILD AROUND A, UM, A CATALYST. 
          WE HAVE OUR SECOND STATION, UM, THAT IS OPEN, IT'S THRIVING. 
          HOW DO WE START TO BUILD AN IDENTITY AND BUILD A COMMUNITY, UM, AROUND THAT ASSET. 
          UM, OUR PARKS TEAM TOUCHED ON THE FAIRGROUNDS MASTER PLAN. 
          AND SO WE'RE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF SELECTING A CONSULTANT TO SUPPORT THE CITY, TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THAT EXCITING PROCESS TO HELP REIMAGINE AND FULLY UTILIZE AS A COMMUNITY, OUR FAIRGROUNDS PROPERTY. 
          UM, AND THEN AS PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GENERAL PLAN IS THE ZONING CODE. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ALIGNMENT WITH OUR ZONING CODE. 
          HOW DO WE MAKE SURE IT'S NIMBLE, IT'S SUPPORTIVE OF ALL THE WONDERFUL USES AND CREATIVITY THAT THE COMMUNITY, UM, WANTS TO DELIVER, UM, FOR US. 
          UM, AND ALSO SOMETHING THAT MEETS THE CLIMATE BLUEPRINT. 
          AND SO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE, UM, THAT WE KEEP THE NORTH STAR TO, TO BE CLIMATE RESILIENT? UM, AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE'RE GONNA DO THAT IS UPDATING, UM, AND PUTTING FORWARD GOOD POLICY, UM, GOOD LOCAL POLICY DOWNTOWN PLACEMAKING. 
          AND SO THIS TOUCHES, UM, ON PARKLETS, UM, AS BEING ONE COMPONENT, BUT ALSO OUR, UH, ONE OF OUR KEY GEMS AS A CITY, AS OUR DOWNTOWN. 
          HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT, UH, DOWNTOWN'S THRIVING, NOT JUST WITH NEW USES, NOT JUST RETENANTING OLD USES, UNDERUTILIZED USES, UH, BUT MAKING IT A PLACE, UM, FOR EVERYONE, UM, TO SHARE AND TO THRIVE. 
          UM, AND I'LL JUST TOUCH BRIEFLY ON, PART OF THAT IS THE PARKING MANAGEMENT. 
          SO DOWNTOWN, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT, UM, NOT ONLY THERE'S ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL DOWNTOWN, UM, BUT IT'S VERY MUCH CONNECTED TO THE PLACEMAKING, UM, AND THE ATTRACTIVENESS, UM, THAT WE ALL ARE VERY PROUD OF. 
          UM, AND SO WITH THAT NEXT SLIDE, THAT'S WHY WE DO THE THINGS WE DO. 
          UM, AS YOU HEARD TONIGHT, THE CITY'S BALANCING OUR DAY-TO-DAY SERVICE DELIVERY WITH OUR FOCUS ON LONG-TERM TRANSFORMATION. 
          AND WE'VE MADE STRONG PROGRESS, AND WE RECOGNIZE THERE'S STILL MORE WORK TO DO, A LOT MORE WORK TO DO. 
          TONIGHT'S OUR OPPORTUNITY TO REFINE PRIORITIES, STAY FOCUSED, AND CONTINUE DELIVERING FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND OUR CITY TEAM IS GRATEFUL TO SERVE THIS INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING COUNCIL'S PRIORITIES AND WE'LL RETURN WITH A PLAN TO 
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ALIGN THOSE PRIORITIES WITH RESOURCES AND TIMELINES THAT DELIVER FOR OUR PETALUMA COMMUNITY. 
          AND WE'RE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WELL, THANK YOU. 
          UH, GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          I REALLY WANT TO THANK ALL THE STAFF WHO PUT IN THE EFFORT AND, UH, HIT ON ALL THAT DETAIL. 
          YOU KNOW, I CRINGE TO THINK WHERE WE WERE IN IN 2018 AND, UH, AND, AND THEN, UM, LOVE ALL THE PROGRESS WE'VE BEEN SEEING SINCE 2019 TO GET US TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 
          AND A LOT OF YOUR LISTING, I MEAN, I THINK IT GETS OVERSHADOWED BY THE ISSUE DE JOUR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER'S HOT TODAY, BUT ALL THAT WORK'S BEEN GOING ON FROM ALL THOSE PEOPLE, AND THAT'S MUCH APPRECIATED. 
          UM, IT'S QUITE A RECITAL OF ACHIEVEMENT, UH, BUT LIKE YOU SAY, THERE'S STILL A WAYS TO GO. 
          AND, UM, EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS A STRONG, STRONG EFFORT SINCE 2019, I THINK THIS MEETING, LIKE YOU SAY, IS THE FOCUS ON WHAT WE'RE GOING FORWARD WITH. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT, UH, PRESENTATION. 
          AND AT THIS POINT, RATHER THAN BRING IT UP TO COUNCIL, WHICH I KNOW WILL BE, UH, AN, AN ENGAGING ENVIRONMENT, UM, I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT TO PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST, AND I'D LIKE OUR CLERK TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THIS POINT HERE. 
          YES, WE DID RECEIVE, UH, 12 PUBLIC COMMENTS AHEAD OF THE MEETING, AND THOSE ARE POSTED ONLINE. 
          AND AT THIS TIME, I WILL START A 32ND CLOCK. 
          AND SO DURING THESE 30 SECONDS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WISHING TO SPEAK SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO MY DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. 
          AND SPEAKER CARDS RECEIVED AFTER THIS TIME MAY NOT BE ACCOMMODATED. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR, UM, BEING HERE TO PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          AND, AND TO HELP WITH THAT, WE HAVE NATASHA GIULIANI TO BE FIRST AND DON FOREMAN TO FOLLOW. 
          THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND COUNSEL. 
          MY NAME IS NATASHA GIULIANA. 
          I AM THE DIRECTOR OF COOL PETALUMA, A NONPROFIT FOCUSED ON BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE BY EMPOWERING LOCAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS. 
          BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I'M A MOM AND A WANNABE GRANDMOTHER. 
          MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS PROTECTING THE FUTURE FOR OUR NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME. 
          SO I'M NOT HERE TO SPEAK ON MY BEHALF, BUT ON THEIRS AT THE CITY'S GOALS AND PRIORITIES WORKSHOP, AS WAS MENTIONED BY PATRICK IN 2019, I WAS THERE, THE COMMUNITY ASKED THE EQUITABLE CLIMATE ACTION BE THE NUMBER ONE OBJECTIVE. 
          WE PROUDLY WALKED AWAY FROM THERE WITH SUSTAINABILITY AND REGENERATION MARKED AT THE TOP OF THE PAPER AS THE META GOAL, OVERARCHING EVERYTHING. 
          AND I THINK WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THAT TONIGHT. 
          AND I, I LOVE SEEING HOW IT'S BEEN SO INTEGRATED INTO THE CITY'S, UH, STAFF'S WORK. 
          AND I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          JUST AFTER THAT, UH, PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL WENT ON TO UNANIMOUS UNANIMOUSLY PASS THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION, WHICH HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, THE CATALYST FOR SO MUCH OF THIS GREAT WORK. 
          AND, UM, WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT AS WE SAW TONIGHT. 
          I ASK THAT TONIGHT, SEVEN YEARS LATER IN THE YEAR 2026, WE RECOMMIT OURSELVES TO PRIORITIZING EQUITABLE CLIMATE ACTION AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. 
          LAST WEEK, PETALUMA WAS CONSISTENTLY 25 DEGREES ABOVE THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. 
          THIS HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IS NOW TRAVELING ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SMASHING TEMPERATURE RECORDS FROM CALIFORNIA TO PENNSYLVANIA. 
          IT MIGHT FI FEEL GOOD TO GO OUTSIDE IN YOUR SHORTS AND GRILL ON YOUR BARBECUE, BUT THIS IS NOT NORMAL. 
          IT'S NOT GOOD FOR ALL OF THE OTHER PLANTS AND ANIMALS THAT LIVE ON THIS PLANET THAT HAVE ADAPTED TO THE WAY THE CLIMATE HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST MILLENNIAL. 
          AND, UM, AND SO WE NEED TO, TO REMEMBER THAT THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS HERE. 
          IT'S NOW IT'S EFFECT. 
          THE EFFECTS OF WARMING PLANET ARE BEING FELT EVEN MORE QUICKLY THAN SCIENTISTS PREDICTED. 
          LAST FALL, A NEW SCIENTIFIC REVIEW CALLED THE PLANETARY HEALTH CHECK IN 2025, SHOWED THAT SEVEN OF NINE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES HAVE NOW BEEN EXCEEDED. 
          I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW SERIOUS THIS IS. 
          IF WE DESTROY THE BASIC LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM ON EARTH, EVERYTHING ELSE IS A MOOT POINT. 
          NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE US. 
          WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO MARS. 
          WE NEED TO GET ORGANIZED AND FOCUSED ON TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER WHILE WE TAKE 
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CARE OF THE PLANET. 
          SO PLEASE PRIORITIZE EQUITABLE CLIMATE ACTION AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE. 
          NOT FOR MY SAKE, BUT FOR ALL OF THE CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, DON FOREMAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY ROSEMARY HART. 
          HI. 
          UM, PETALUMA MADE A COMMITMENT TO BECOME AGE-FRIENDLY WHEN IT JOINED A A RP NETWORK, UM, IN EARLY 2020, AGE-FRIENDLY WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT, FOCUS ON, UH, CREATIVE LIVABLE COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. 
          PETALUMA AGE FRIENDLY ACTION PLAN FROM 2023 ON PAGE FOUR OF THE STREETS, TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY SPACES. 
          UH, ONE LINE MENTIONS ADDITIONAL PUBLIC BATHROOMS. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING AS BATHROOMS TONIGHT. 
          UM, ONE IS CURRENTLY BEING PREPARED IN PLANNING STAGES. 
          IN 24 25, THERE WAS A CITY TOP 10 GOALS AND PRIORITIES AND BATHROOMS WERE ON THE LIST, BUT THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT. 
          UM, IN THE CIP 80 OF 2223, THERE WAS 510 K ON THE BUDGET. 
          AND IN 25, 26, THERE'S 180. 
          NOT SURE WHY IT WENT DOWN SO MUCH. 
          UM, BUT ANYWAYS, WE NEED BATHROOMS IN TOWN, SO HOPEFULLY THAT COULD GET ON THE GOALS, YOU KNOW? THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ROSEMARY HART SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY DARREN KUZEN, HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          HELLO, I, UH, IT'S MY FOURTH OR FIFTH GOALS AND PRIORITIES WORKSHOP. 
          I STARTED WITH THE, UH, REPRESENTING THE PETALUMA WOMEN'S CLUB, AND NOW I HAVE OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE ASKING ME TO REPRESENT THEM. 
          AND AS MEMBERS OF YOUR COMMUNITY, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE ATTENTION YOU HAVE GIVEN TO OUR RIVERFRONT BY PRIORITIZING THE TRESTLE EVERY SINGLE YEAR. 
          AND WE COME ONCE AGAIN TO ASK YOU TO PRIORITIZE IT FOR THE 26TH, 27 FISCAL YEAR. 
          WHILE WE HAVE SEEN SOME PROJECT PROGRESS IN THOSE PAST FOUR YEARS, OUR COMMUNITY HAS YET TO SEE VISIBLE ON THE GROUND COMMITMENT THAT WE'VE BEEN HOPING FOR. 
          WHETHER OR NOT THE CITY OWNS THE TRESTLE, YOUR CONSTITUENCY AS PART OF YOUR CITY, AND ITS CONTINUED DETERIORATION AFFECTS ALL OF US. 
          IT'S BECOME AN EYESORE, A SAFETY ISSUE, AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, AND AN EMBARRASSMENT IN THE PLACE WE VALUE DEEPLY. 
          SO WE ASK YOU THREE THINGS. 
          REALLY COMMIT TO THIS PROJECT. 
          PRIORITIZE IT FOR 26, 27. 
          WE CANNOT IGNORE IT FOREVER. 
          24 HOUR FITNESS IS FALLING INTO THE RIVER AS I'M SPEAKING. 
          UM, NUMBER TWO, HOLD, UH, COMMUNITY VISIONING MEETINGS. 
          F IS EXPECTED TO HAVE SHOVEL READY PLANS SOON. 
          SO NOW IS THAT IDEAL TIME TO BRING RESIDENTS TOGETHER? THROUGH THESE MEETINGS, CONVERSATIONS WILL ENSURE THAT THE WORK AND THE DOLLARS THAT YOU HAVE ALLOCATED TO THIS WILL REFLECT THE SHARED VISION AND NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE, WORK, AND GATHER HERE. 
          AND NUMBER THREE, DETERMINE MAYBE THE ECONOMIC IMPACT. 
          PERHAPS THAT'S THE MAGIC KEY THAT WILL GET US TO MOVE ON THIS PROJECT. 
          WE NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE LONG-TERM BENEFITS OF THIS RIVERFRONT. 
          AND IT AN ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY COULD DEMONSTRATE TO YOU ALL SOMETHING THAT WE ALREADY FEEL AND THAT A BEAUTIFUL ACCESSIBLE PROMENADE WOULD STRENGTHEN OUR LOCAL ECONOMY, SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR EVERYONE. 
          YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR RIVERFRONT. 
          IT'S THE PICTURE WE SHOW TO PEOPLE WHEN WE ARE TRYING TO GET THEM TO COME HERE AS TOURISTS. 
          WE ALL HAVE A STAKE IN ITS FUTURE. 
          LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE IT A REALITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU GAR KUZEN TO BE FOLLOWED BY CHANTEL ROGERS. 
          THANK YOU, CAITLIN. 
          UH, COUNCIL MAYOR, I APPRECIATE THAT THIS EXERCISE HAS KIND OF EVOLVED OVER THE YEARS FROM THE TOP 10 PRIORITY FIGHT INTO A RECAP OF HERE'S THE CONTEXT OF ALL CITY OPERATIONS. 
          HERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE ONGOING. 
          HERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE ONE TIME MOVES, STEPS FORWARD. 
          I THINK IN READING THE STAFF REPORT IN PREPARATION FOR THIS MEETING, I DIDN'T QUITE INTERPRET IT THAT WAY. 
          SO I WANNA SAY, I THINK THERE WAS SOME IN MY MIND, I LIKE THIS EXERCISE BEING A PRECURSOR FOR THE BUDGET. 
          I THINK THERE IS MORE WE CAN DO 
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TO CONTEXTUALIZE THIS INFORMATION AND MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE, BOTH FOR DECISION MAKERS AND FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION BECAUSE OF THE PRESENTATIONS ATTACHED THERE NOW. 
          BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS GREAT SLIDE DECK. 
          WE DON'T HAVE SOME OF THE VERBAL CONTEXT. 
          IS THERE A RUBRIC WE CAN DEVELOP FOR SOME OF THESE ON COST? IS THERE AN IDENTIFICATION WE CAN MAKE ON CHURN OR CORE DAILY SERVICES VERSUS ONE-TIME PROJECTS THAT IS DELINEATED? 'CAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE DISCUSSION SECTION OF THE STAFF REPORT, IT'S A LIST OF EVERYTHING. 
          IT'S TOWARD THE END. 
          IT'S SEPARATED WITH LIKE SIP AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY IN A BETTER FORMAT. 
          BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT WE CAN DO THERE, AGAIN, TO IMPROVE THIS FOR OUR DECISION MAKERS AND FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          AND I THINK MY NEXT POINT IS SOMETHING THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HELP WITH THAT. 
          AND I THINK IT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES IF IT'S NOT ALREADY INTERNALLY, WHICH IS DEVELOPING COMPREHENSIVE AI POLICY. 
          I THINK WE'RE ENTERING AN ERA WHERE PERMIT DESKS ARE GONNA BE TRANSFORMED BY AI PERMIT PROCESSES ARE GONNA BE TRANSFORMED BY AI, WHERE YOU DON'T NEED DESK HOURS TO SUPPORT SOMEONE IN GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          I THINK THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE ORGANIZATION OF DOCUMENTS LIKE THIS. 
          I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT AT THE END OF THE ERA OF LIKE $4 MILLION, THREE YEAR LONG MASTER PLANNING PROJECTS WHERE IT'S DOCUMENT GENERATION HEAVY, WHERE AN AI CAN REALLY DO A LOT OF THE BRUTE FORCE AND FREE UP STAFF FOR HIGH TOUCH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TYPE ROLES. 
          BUT THEN ON THE FLIP SIDE, THERE'S THE DATA SECURITY AND BEST PRACTICES, UH, SIDE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA PUT ANYONE ON THE SPOT, BUT A CITY STAFF MEMBER AT THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HAD CHAT GPT UP AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS, WHICH WE ALL TO SOME EXTENT USE BECAUSE IT IS A COMMON TOOL. 
          BUT DO WE HAVE POLICIES INTERNALLY TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S ON THE SAME PAGE WITH HOW TO MOST EFFECTIVELY USE THOSE TOOLS? SO I THINK THAT AI HAS TO BE A CENTERPIECE MOVING FORWARD. 
          I THINK WE'RE A COUPLE YEARS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALREADY OUT THERE, BUT I THINK THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY NOW TO RELEASE SEIZE ONTO IT AND FIND WHERE WE CAN LEVERAGE IT TO NOT REPLACE CORE SERVICES, REPLACE CORE PERSONNEL, BUT REALLY BE A SUPPORTIVE TOOL. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, SOMETHING FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 25, UM, THAT I DIDN'T SEE ON HERE IS THE MARINA. 
          THE AUDITOR RECOGNIZED THAT AS A GOING CONCERN ISSUE IS REALLY THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE CITY'S FINANCIALS THAT IT FLAGGED AS A GOING CONCERN PROBLEM. 
          AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE AT LEAST A MENTION OF THAT STRATEGY WISE. 
          LIKE, WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE MARINA? IS IT SOLVENT? IS IT NOT? WHAT DO WE DO WITH IT? UM, SO I, I JUST WANNA FLAG THAT, BECAUSE AGAIN, I LIKE THAT IDEA OF THIS CONVERSATION LEADING INTO A BIGGER BUDGET DISCUSSION WITH HOW DO WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES? SO LET'S PUSH MORE IN THAT DIRECTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CHANTELLE ROGERS TO BE FOLLOWED BY RICK BERG. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          UM, SO THE STAFF REPORT THAT WAS POSTED BEFORE THIS MEETING, UM, WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW, UM, FOR SUCH AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. 
          IT'S DISAPPOINTING THAT THE CITY DIDN'T PUT IN MORE EFFORT TO PRESENT A COHESIVE PLAN. 
          THE PRESENTATION ACTUALLY GIVEN TONIGHT IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT AND WASN'T POSTED EARLY. 
          I, I LOOKED THIS AFTERNOON. 
          IT WASN'T THERE. 
          IT'S THERE NOW. 
          UM, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT IT. 
          UM, AND I, I, I REALLY THINK THAT POSTING THAT AHEAD OF TIME GIVES THE PUBLIC A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW ALONG AND GIVE FEEDBACK THAT IS PERTINENT TO, TO WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO PRESENT. 
          SO MUCH FEEDBACK WAS, UH, RECEIVED FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING CONCERNING THE S SORRY STATE OF OUR TRESTLE. 
          UM, IN YEARS PAST REFURBISHING, THE TRESTLE WAS IDENTIFIED AS A CITY PRIORITY, BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN OFF OF THE LIST, AT LEAST FROM THE PRIORITIES I HAVE HERE. 
          UM, THE TRESTLE HAS GONE FROM AN EYESORE TO A TRAVESTY AND A CITY EMBARRASSMENT. 
          IT'S LITERALLY ROTTING INTO THE WATER AT AN ACCELERATED RATE. 
          SMELLS WORSE EVERY DAY. 
          AND THE RATS ARE THE SIZE OF CATS. 
          THE COUNCIL MAKES MUCH OF SUPPOSED BLIGHT CAUSED BY CHAINLINK FENCES, BUT THIS IS TRUE BLIGHT. 
          IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE ARTICLES WRITTEN ABOUT PETALUMA WILL VEER FROM ISTS DOWNTOWN TO MOST DILAPIDATED. 
          I KNOW IT'S COMPLICATED AND EXPENSIVE, BUT PLEASE PUT IT BACK AT THE TOP OF YOUR PRIORITY LIST. 
          WE REALLY CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER. 
          ALSO, ABSENT FROM THE PRIORITIES LIST AS IN PLACE THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 27, IS ANY MENTION OF ROAD PAVING WHILE THE PRESENTATION THANKS. 
          THE CITIZENS OF PETALUMA FOR THEIR SUPPORT BY PASSING MEASURE U MOST OF US ASSUME THAT THE 1% INCREASE IN SALES TAX THAT WE PAY EVERY DAY WOULD GO SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARDS ROAD REPAIR. 
          THAT'S HOW MEASURE U WAS SOLD TO US. 
          BUT INSTEAD, VIRTUALLY ALL THE TAX REVENUE IS GOING TO PAY FOR CITY EMPLOYEES, THEIR BENEFITS AND PENSIONS AND OTHER CITY FUNCTIONS AND PROJECTS UNRELATED TO THE ROAD REPAIR. 
          THE BOND IS ALMOST ALL SPENT OR COMMITTED. 
          AND NOW WE'VE ADDED CLOSE TO A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN BOND 
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REPAYMENT. 
          ROAD REPAIR DESERVES TO BE AT THE TOP OF OUR PRIORITIES LIST NOW AND UNTIL SAID TIME THAT OUR ROADS ARE ALL IN DECENT SHAPE AS A REALITY CHECK. 
          OUR COUNTRY IS AT WAR GAS, AND EVERYDAY ITEMS ARE RISING EXPONENTIALLY IN COST AND ASSUMPTIONS WE HAVE MADE IN THE PAST ABOUT TOURIST TRAFFIC, LOCAL SPENDING AND CONTINUED REVENUES CAN NO LONGER BE COUNTED ON. 
          WE NEED TO TIGHTEN UP OUR PRIORITIES TO ADDRESS NECESSITIES AND NOT NICETIES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU RICK BERG TO BE FOLLOWED BY MAUREEN SHAW. 
          WELL, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MR. MAYOR. 
          UH, MY NAME IS RICK BERG. 
          I'M A PETALUMA RESIDENT AND PROPERTY OWNER, UH, AS WELL AS REAL ESTATE BROKER WITH CENTURY 21 EPIC IN OUR DOWNTOWN OFFICE. 
          AND, UH, I'M A MEMBER OF THE PETALUMA DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, UH, BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
          UH, I TOO AM HERE THIS EVENING TO TALK ABOUT THE TRESTLE AND URGE THE COUNCIL TO ENGAGE IN ROBUST COMMUNITY VISIONING AND DESIGN PROCESS REGARDING REIMAGINING THE TRESTLE. 
          UH, THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN A SAFETY HAZARD AND AN EYESORE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT, UH, AND INSTEAD COULD BE AN ASSET, UH, AND A DRIVER, UH, HELPING TO FUEL THE ECONOMY, THE ECONOMIC VIBRANCY AND GROWTH OF OUR DOWNTOWN AND ALL OF PETALUMA. 
          UH, I KNOW WORK HAS BEEN DONE AROUND THIS PROJECT, AND I KNOW THE TRESTLE. 
          I KNOW, UH, THE OWNERSHIP OF THE TRESTLE IS COMPLICATED AND UNCLEAR. 
          UH, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THIS HIGHLY VISIBLE FEATURE IN OUR DOWNTOWN CORE NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. 
          UH, PLEASE MAKE ENGAGING OUR COMMUNITY IN A VISIONING PROCESS, UH, REIMAGINING THE TRESTLE, UH, PRIORITY THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAUREEN SHAW. 
          UM, AND AT A WORKSHOP, I'M HOPING THREE MINUTES IS GONNA HOLD YOU. 
          WE'RE NOT, UH, WAYNE CAN'T, UM, WAYNE IS SEATING HIS TIME. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GONNA ALLOW SEATING DURING A WORKSHOP TIME. 
          A WORKSHOP IS A MAXIMUM THREE MINUTES. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'M SORRY TO BE FOLLOWED BY CATHERINE GREGOR. 
          OKAY, SOUNDS GOOD. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL THEN I'LL GET TO THE POINT. 
          . 
          UM, I'M HERE TO DISCUSS, UM, AS A PRIORITY, UH, THE FINANCIAL HEALTH. 
          UM, I HAVE APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL PREVIOUSLY TO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND RESERVES. 
          EACH TIME THE CITY RESPONSE HAS BEEN THE SAME. 
          WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE AND WE CARRY TWO MONTHS OF RESERVES. 
          THAT IS THE GFO MINIMUM STANDARD. 
          BUT TWO MONTHS EQUALS 16.7%. 
          IT'S TWO DIVIDED BY 12. 
          THE CITY'S OWN FINANCE DIRECTOR WROTE IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2025, A CFR TRANSMITTAL LETTER DATED DECEMBER 30TH. 
          THE CITY CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN EMERGENCY RESERVES ACCORDING TO COUNCIL POLICY AT 15% OF OPERATING EXPENDITURES. 
          AND I ASK THIS COUNSEL, AT THE VERY MINIMUM TO MEET THE GFOA STANDARD. 
          THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 15% AND 16.7 MAY SOUND SMALL, BUT IN THE CONTEXT OF PETALUMA'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR OPERATIONAL BUDGET, THE 1.7 GAP REPRESENTS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY THAT DOES NOT EXIST WHEN A CRISIS ARRIVES. 
          THE CITY FUND BALANCE REFERENCED IN THEIR ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT, RIGHT BALANCE RENTER IN THE, SORRY I WAS LOOKING AT THE CLOCK, DECEMBER 30TH, SUBMITTED TO THE STATE AUTHORIZES RAISES A FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. 
          IT IS UNCLEAR HOW THE CITY ARRIVES AT 15% OF UNASSIGNED FUNDS. 
          THE TOTAL GOVERNMENT FUND BALANCE OF 156.5 MILLION IS COM PROMISED BY IS COM IS PUT TOGETHER OF FIVE SEPARATE CATEGORIES. 
          2.3 MILLION IS NONS SPENDABLE AND CANNOT BE SENT SPENT. 
          130 MILLION IS RESTRICTED, LEGALLY CONSTRAINED. 
          7.9 MILLION IS COMMITTED FORMALLY SET ASIDE BY COUNCIL ACTION. 
          16.7 MILLION ASSIGNED, DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIC INTENDED USE AND UNASSIGNED IS A NEGATIVE 0.6 MILLION. 
          THE CITY'S 15% RESERVE CLAIM APPEARS TO BE COUNTING THE ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE OF 16.7 MILLION MONEY ALREADY EARMARKED FOR SPECIFIC INTENDED PURPOSES. 
          THE GFOA OWN GUY OWNS GUIDANCE WARNS AGAINST THIS. 
          THE GENERAL FUND ITSELF CONFIRMS THE PROBLEM. 
          18.8 MILLION TOTAL MADE UP A 2.1 MILLION NON SPENDABLE AND 16.7 MILLION ASSIGNED UNASSIGNED. 
          ZERO RESIDENTS DESERVE A DIRECT EXPLANATION FROM THE CITY OF HOW IT ARRIVES AT A-G-F-O-A COMPLIANT UNASSIGNED RESERVE. 
          I ALSO WANT TO ADDRESS THE AA BONDING RATING FROM S AND P GLOBAL RATING APPLIES SPECIFICALLY TO THE CITY'S 
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2026 LEASE REVENUE BONDS MEASURE H SALES TAX BONDS BACKED BY DEDICATED REVENUE STREAMS AND IS NOT A CERTIFICATE THAT THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND RESERVES ARE ADEQUATE. 
          I'M URGING THE COUNCIL TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AND TO INCREASE THE RESERVES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU CATHERINE GREGOR TO BE FOLLOWED BY MANINA ZITO. 
          HI EVERYONE. 
          I TOO, I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE TRESTLE ON THAT LOVELY PIECE OF PAPER THERE. 
          IT SAYS, NEED TO DEAL WITH A TRESTLE, . 
          YOU KNOW, THE TRESTLE HAS JUST KIND OF BECOME THIS THING THAT MAKES EVERYONE GROAN AND IT'S PROBLEM AND IT'S UGLY AND IT'S GOT RATS, AND IT'S LIKE A BUMMER. 
          SO I UNDERSTAND WHY PERHAPS IT KIND OF SLIPS OFF THE PRIORITIES AND, UM, IT'S NOT THERE AS A TOP GOAL THIS YEAR. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT REALLY CARE ABOUT IT. 
          AND LISTENING TO THESE WONDERFUL PRESENTATIONS AND THE HARD WORK OF CITY STAFF, AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, I'M FORMER CITY STAFF FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS. 
          IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PERHAPS IT FITS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. 
          SORRY, UM, BRIAN, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS CAN REALLY BE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE. 
          AND AS BRIAN COCHRAN SO SUCCINCTLY POINTED OUT, THE PATH OUT OF THE CITY'S FINANCIAL WOES IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS FABULOUS. 
          ROSEMARY AND I HAVE SAT THROUGH SO MANY MEETINGS WITH PUBLIC WORK STAFF, THEY'RE GREAT ENGINEERS, AND THEY DID THE ENGINEERING WORK, AND THEY GOT AN ENGINEERING CONSULTANT, AND THEY BASICALLY SAID, YEAH, CAN'T FIX IT. 
          AND IT'S ROTTING. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T LIPSTICK THIS PIG. 
          WE'RE SO SORRY. 
          UM, I MEAN, THEY DID PROVI, THEY DID PRESENT SOME IDEAS AND OH, MAYBE IT'S WOOD AND MAYBE THE PLANS GO THIS WAY OR THAT WAY. 
          BUT IT WAS KINDA LIKE OPTIONS WITHIN A TEENY TINY LITTLE CUP. 
          AND REALLY THE OPTIONS SHOULD BE AT THE LEVEL OF WHAT IS THE VISION OF OUR COMMUNITY? WHAT DO WE WANT? WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY HERE? I MEAN, IT'S OUR WATERFRONT, IT'S OUR RIVERFRONT. 
          I PERSONALLY AM NOT INVESTED IN PRESERVING THE DILAPIDATED TRESTLE. 
          I'M OKAY IF IT JUST NEEDS TO GO. 
          WHAT I'D LOVE IS TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WATERFRONT. 
          AND AS SOMEONE ELSE POINTED OUT, THESE, THE PICTURES THAT WE SHOW TO EVERYONE, THEY'RE IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BROCHURES AND THE VISIT PETALUMA BROCHURES, AND THERE'S THAT TRESTLE. 
          SO I'M JUST ASKING YOU ALL TO GET SOME EXCITEMENT AND SOME VISION AROUND IT. 
          AND INSTEAD OF SEEING IT AS LIKE, NEED TO DEAL WITH THE TRESTLE , YOU KNOW, LET'S GET A REALLY CRACK URBAN DESIGN FIRM IN HERE. 
          LET'S FUND THEM. 
          LET'S DO VISIONING, RIGHT? I HEAR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT. 
          MAYBE THEY COULD HELP, UM, AND REALLY TREAT IT AS A VISION OPPORTUNITY, SOMETHING EXCITEMENT, SOMETHING THAT CAN BRING ECONOMIC GROWTH INTO OUR CITY AND JUST MAKE IT LOOK REALLY GREAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NINA ZITO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, WE HAVE A VERONICA OLSON TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANDY SCHRADER. 
          HI, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. 
          HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A GREAT DAY. 
          IT'S A LOT OF STUFF TO DO ON THIS TO-DO LIST. 
          UM, I'M GONNA, I JUST WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WALK IN OUR CITY, EVERY STREET IN PETALUMA, EVERY BUILDING WE PASSED IS A DECISION THAT HAS BEEN MADE. 
          AND WE'VE ADOPTED OUR BLUEPRINT AND THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO ADOPT OUR GENERAL PLAN. 
          SO OUR DIRECTIONS ARE VERY CLEAR. 
          THE QUESTION IS, DO WE HAVE ALL THE IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS IN PLACE TO DELIVER THIS CONSISTENTLY? THERE ARE THREE STRAIGHTFORWARD WAYS TO CLOSE THAT GAP. 
          STAFF HAS, HAS PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO THESE PLANS, AND THERE'S A LOT ALREADY IN MOTION. 
          BUT WHAT I'M POINTING TO IS SOMETHING MORE FOUNDATIONAL AND PROBABLY MORE BORING. 
          AND THAT IS . 
          UM, WE ARE ASKED TO LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN SEE EVERY DAY IN THE, IN THE STANDARDS THAT WE, WE HAVE. 
          UM, THE FIRST AREA IS BUYRIGHT HOUSING. 
          THIS IS WHERE A SHARE OF THE CITY IS BEING BUILT, AND IT BYPASSES DISCRETIONARY REVIEW. 
          SO WHATEVER IS NOT WRITTEN TO IN INTO THE OBJECTIVE DESIGN 
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STANDARDS DOES NOT GET BUILT. 
          AND TODAY, OUR GAPS IN THE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS ARE OUR MINIMUM FLOOR HEIGHT, OUR TRANSPARENT GLAZING AT THE STREET AND STREET TEE STREET TREES AND FRONTAGE LANDSCAPE IN PURE CITIES. 
          THESE ARE ALREADY STANDARD. 
          PALO ALTO REQUIRES 14 FOOT GROUND FLOORS. 
          BERKELEY SAN LUIS OBISPO REQUIRE MINIMUM GROUND FLOOR HEIGHTS. 
          BERKELEY REQUIRE TRANSPARENT GLAZING. 
          AND ALL THREE CITIES REQUIRE STREET TREES ALONG THEIR FRONTAGE. 
          PETALUMA REQUIRES NONE, NO STREET TREES ON OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          SO IN MANY CITIES, UM, FRONTAGE STANDARDS ALSO INCLUDE SOIL VOLUME, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, AND CLIMATE ADAPTED PLANTING. 
          THESE ARE NOT AESTHETIC CHOICES. 
          THEY SHAPE SHADE, THEY SHAPE ACTIVITY, AND HOW THE STREET WORKS OVER TIME. 
          AND THEY'RE SET AT CONSTRUCTION ONCE BUILT, THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO CHANGE. 
          SO MY ASK IS TO INCLUDE, TO UPDATE THE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS TO INCLUDE THE PEDESTRIAN EXPERIENCE, GROUND FLOOR, HEIGHT, TRANSPARENCY, STREET TREES, AND REQUIREMENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ANDY SCHRADER. 
          HELLO MAYOR. 
          UH, CITY COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU TO THE STAFF FOR TERRIFIC PRESENTATION AND, UH, AND FOR ALL THE TERRIFIC WORK THAT THAT LED UP TO IT. 
          I WANT TO ECHO NATASHA JULIANA'S COMMENTS ABOUT CLIMATE, THE WORLD METEOROLOGIC METEOROLOGY, METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION'S. 
          PRESS RELEASE JUST TODAY SAYS THIS, THE EARTH'S CLIMATE IS MORE OUT OF BALANCE THAN AT ANY TIME AN OBSERVED HISTORY. 
          THE STATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT CONFIRMS THAT THE YEARS 2015 TO 2025 ARE THE HOTTEST 11 YEARS GLOBALLY ON RECORD. 
          AND THAT EXTREME WEATHER IMPACTS MILLIONS AND COSTS BILLIONS. 
          IN, WE SAW OVER 1200, 12,500 HOMES BURNED TO THE GROUND IN LOS ANGELES LAST YEAR FROM CLIMATE EXACERBATED WILDFIRES, FOR WHICH THE 2017 TUBS FIRE, WHICH ONLY BURNED ABOUT 6,000 HOMES. 
          IT WAS JUST A WARMUP ACT. 
          IT'S GETTING WORSE FAST. 
          AND THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE WITH KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD ON CLIMATE IS THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY INSIDE THAT CAN, THAT'S BEING KICKED. 
          AND WHAT THAT MEANS WHEN A FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION IS AGGRESSIVELY BAD ON CLIMATE, IS THAT WE NEED TO STEP UP OUR EFFORTS LOCALLY. 
          YOU HAVE DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS ON CLIMATE COMMITTEES WORKING FOR FREE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE BLUEPRINT FOR CLIMATE ACTION REGARDLESS OF THE BUDGET SITUATION, WHICH I'M AWARE AS DYER, THIS WORK NEEDS YOUR ONGOING ATTENTION AND RESOURCES FOR OUR CHILDREN. 
          SECOND, WHEN THE COUNCIL VOTED TO REPLACE THE PLASTIC CARPET AT LUCCHESE, YOU SAID YOU WOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER A CITYWIDE BAN ON PLASTIC GRASS INSTALLATION AFTER LAST WEEK'S HEAT WAVE. 
          THAT TIME IS NOW. 
          MY 9-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WAS SIGNED UP FOR SOCCER TRAINING PRACTICE ON PLASTIC GRASS AT 4:00 PM LAST MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY. 
          GIVEN THE HIGH TEMPERATURES, THE SOCCER COMMUNITY WAS LIKELY PLAYING ON SURFACES REACHING BETWEEN 140 AND 160 DEGREES. 
          I DIDN'T LET MY DAUGHTER PRACTICE LAST WEEK, AND I ATE THE A HUNDRED BUCKS THAT WAS NON-REFUNDABLE. 
          SINCE THE SOCCER ASSOCIATION DOES NOT ACTUALLY HAVE A REAL ACTIONABLE EXTREME, A HEAT PLAN IN PLACE, THE CITIES SHOULD HAVE ONE AND HALT PRACTICE ON EXTREME HEAT DAYS. 
          PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER PUT THEIR CHILDREN AT SERIOUS RISK BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER. 
          THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROTECT US FROM BADMAN AS PRACTICES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT WAS THE LAST CARD I HAVE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT AND, UM, BRING IT BACK UP TO THE COUNCIL WHERE, UH, CERTAINLY WE HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT, UM, UM, FOR WHERE WE'VE BEEN. 
          AND A, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF A QUESTION FOR WHERE WE'RE GOING. 
          UM, I I DO WANT TO ECHO OUT ONE OF OUR SPEAKER'S COMMENTS THAT ALL THE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE PAST ARE NOT SECURE FOR THE FUTURE. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN MEAN THAT AS A CLIMATE COMMENT OR YOU CAN MEAN THAT AS A FEDERAL OR STATE GOVERNMENT FUNDING COMMENT. 
          BUT, UH, YEAH, WE ARE IN A PERIOD WHERE, UH, PERHAPS A CAUTION IS AN, UH, IS A KEY, UH, KEY WORD HERE. 
          UM, AND, UM, WITH THAT, UM, I GUESS ONE COMMENT THAT I WANNA LEAD WITH IS, UH, THE PRESENTATION SHOWED US OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM, UM, UH, AND, AND THE BIG PROJECTS WE HAVE COMING AS A, UM, DOUBLING OR TRIPLING THE CAPITAL PROGRAM IN THE NEXT YEAR. 
          YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WE HAVE 50, $60 MILLION OF CAPITAL BEING BUILT EVERY YEAR. 
          AND, AND NOW WE'RE GONNA ADD A 70 MILLION 
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PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA ADD UP, UH, UH, THE SEWER IMPROVEMENTS AT ANOTHER 50 MILLION IN A TIME OF CAUTION. 
          THAT'S A GREAT AMBITION IF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE THAT FUNDING COMING FROM, YOU KNOW, THE NEED IS SO SEVERE. 
          I'M, I'M JUST PLEASED WITH THE AMBITION OF THE CAPITAL PROJECTS TEAM. 
          UM, BUT LET ME, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVING TIPTOED FOR A MINUTE TO GIVE OUR COUNCIL THANK THEIR, THEIR CHANCE TO GET THEIR THOUGHTS TOGETHER. 
          I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR COUNCIL TO, UH, WEIGH IN AND, UH, COUNCILMAN CATER THOMPSON. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO START OFF UNDERSTANDING THE TRESTLE, WHERE WE'RE GOING AS, AND TAKE THAT JUST ON SINGLE AS A SINGLE ISSUE JUST TO START OFF WITH. 
          'CAUSE IT SEEMS TO BE, I HAVE, I HAVE OPINIONS, BUT I RATHER HEAR FROM STAFF ON OWNERSHIP, UH, RESPONSIBILITY AND WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE GOING. 
          AND THEN I'LL GIVE MY OPINION AND COMMENTS. 
          GREAT. 
          LET'S, SUZANNE, SORRY, ERIC, AND THEN GINA, WOULD YOU MIND COMING UP? SO THANK YOU, COUNSEL. 
          I'LL, I'LL START BY RESPONDING TO, UH, THAT FROM THE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, AND THEN I THINK GINA AND MAYBE OTHER PUBLIC WORKS TEAM MEMBERS WILL FOLLOW UP. 
          SO, UH, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF OLD HISTORY THERE AND WE HAVE NOT, UM, GATHERED ALL OF IT. 
          I STILL HAVE SOME QUE SOME QUESTIONS, BUT WE DO HAVE SOME PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS, UM, FROM, FROM THE DOCUMENT REVIEW THAT'S BEEN DONE SO FAR, INCLUDING WITH THE HELP OF, UH, STEVE FRA, UM, WHO'S VERY GOOD AT RESEARCHING HISTORIC, UH, TITLE DOCUMENTS. 
          UM, AND BASED ON THAT REVIEW, UM, WHAT WE CONCLUDE IS THAT, UM, PRESENTLY IS THAT THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT, UM, THE RAIL EASEMENTS ON THE TRESTLE, WHICH WERE CONVEYED BY, UM, THE MCNAIR COMPANY TO THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC RAILROAD, UM, EVER INVOLVED ANY TITLE TRANSFER. 
          BUT THAT WAS JUST AN EASEMENT. 
          AND IT ALSO APPEARS FROM REVIEW OF THAT EASEMENT, WHICH, WHICH WE HAVE, WHICH WE'VE LOOKED AT CAREFULLY, UM, THAT THE EASEMENT EXPIRED OF ITS OWN TERMS 90 DAYS AFTER THE RAIL USE WAS ABANDONED. 
          AND, UM, AND RETURN TO THE MCNAIR COMPANY. 
          UM, AND IT ALSO APPEARS BASED ON OUR CURRENT REVIEW WITH, WITH THE PUBLIC WORKS TEAMS HELP USING OUR GS SYSTEM, UM, THAT NEARLY ALL OF THE TRESTLE SLASH UM, WHAT'S REFERRED TO AS THE WHARF, WHICH, UM, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS WERE DONE IN COMBINATION BY, BY THE MCNAIRS AND THE RAILROAD. 
          UM, NEARLY ALL OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS OVERLAY STATE LANDS, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OF, UM, OF AN EXTENT TO WHICH THE, UM, CURRENT OVER OWNERS AND SUCCESSORS TO THE MCNAIR COMPANY, WHICH ACCORDING TO THE TITLE INFORMATION WE HAVE, UM, ARE KNOWN AS MKD, GREAT PETA MILL, LLC, OWNED BY DARLA AND PAT, UM, FLANAGAN. 
          UM, OTHERWISE IT SEEMS, IT, IT APPEARS THAT THOSE IMPROVEMENTS ARE NOT ON A DESIGNATED PARCEL, BUT OVER STATE LANDS. 
          UM, WE FIND NO CITY OWNERSHIP INTEREST AT ALL EITHER TO THE LAND, THE, UH, WHARF, THE TRESTLE, UM, OR THE UNDERLYING STATE LANDS. 
          WE DO FIND THAT THERE IS A STILL ACTIVE AND STILL IN EFFECT CITY SEWER EASEMENT, UM, THAT WAS AUTHORIZED TO ATTACH TO THE RETAINING WALL AND STILL IS AND IS SEPARATE FROM AND DOESN'T RELY FOR SUPPORT ON THE TRESTLE. 
          UM, SO THE CITY DOES HAVE THAT INTEREST AND IT'S AN, AND A STAFF INFORMED, IT'S AN IM AN IMPORTANT FACILITY THAT WE STILL MAINTAIN AND USE. 
          UM, AND IT AS, AS BEST AS WE CAN SURMISE, UM, WHEN THE EASEMENT GRANT TO THE RAILROAD FOR THE TRESTLE IMPROVEMENTS AND RELATED WHARF IMPROVEMENTS EXPIRED, UM, 
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ON ABANDONMENT OF THAT USE AND 90 DAYS LATER REVERTED BACK TO THE MCNAIRS. 
          IT APPEARS, AND ALONG WITH THE S WHICH I WOULD TAKE TO INCLUDE THE TRESTLE, BUT IT DOESN'T STATE EXPLICITLY, I WOULD TAKE, UM, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT, UM, THE OWNERSHIP OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED ALONG WITH THAT PARCEL, WHICH IS THE OLD MILL PARCEL. 
          UM, AND THAT THEREFORE THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THE OLD MILL PARCEL MAY IN FACT BE OWNERS OF THE TRUS IMPROVEMENTS, BUT THE CITY IS NOT. 
          AND AS BEST AS WE CAN TELL, SMART AS SUCCESSOR TO THE RAILROAD IS NOT. 
          UM, SO WITH MR. LAI'S HELP, THAT'S WHAT WE SEE FROM THE RECORDS, AND I'VE REVIEWED ALL OF THEM THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AS A RESULT OF THAT, THOSE CONCLUSIONS, YOU KNOW, THAT PROVIDES, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S SOME SIGNIFICANT TAKEAWAYS WE CAN DRAW, WHICH I'LL BE HAPPY TO HELP THE COUNCIL DISCUSS IF YOU WISH ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, CITY'S LACK OF CONTROL CONCERNING THAT PROPERTY. 
          UM, THE STATE LANDS, UM, AUTHORITY VIS-A-VIS THE STATE LANDS TITLE AND TRUST LAND THAT IT'S BEING OCCUPIED BY THE TRESTLE, UM, ET CETERA. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE CAN SHARE TONIGHT. 
          WAS THAT, UH, THAT WAS PART ONE OF TWO QUESTIONS, RIGHT? WASN'T THERE SECOND PART? THAT'S PART ONE. 
          SO PART TWO, SO ARE WE IN CONTACT WITH THE STATE LANDS TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM? WHO ARE WE TALKING WITH? WHO WILL WE BE TALKING WITH? IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE, THE COUNCIL DIRECTION IS GIVEN THOSE FACTS. 
          AND I THINK THERE'S SOME, THERE'S SOME, MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THAT WE HAVE SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATION IMPLICATIONS OF SOME OF THOSE FACTS GIVEN AND, AND STAFF CAN TALK ABOUT, AND I THINK THEY'VE REPORTED PREVIOUSLY ABOUT WHAT THEIR ANALYSIS HAS BEEN, WHAT IT SHOWS OF THE CONDITION OF THE TRESTLE, ET CETERA. 
          AND HAS THE OWNERS OF THE MILL BEEN INFORMED THAT THEY MAY BE OWNERS OF THIS? WE HAVE NOT BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THEM. 
          I'VE ONLY RECENTLY GONE THROUGH ALL THIS INFORMATION CLOSELY TO PREPARE FOR TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION. 
          UM, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN DOING THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT AND RIGHT. 
          AND NOT THIS, UM, UH, I, I THINK THIS IS, AT LEAST IN MY OFFICE, THIS IS A GOOD START. 
          WE'RE STAFF IS PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE AND THE WORK THAT WE CAN DO WHILE WE'RE FIGURING OUT OWNERSHIP. 
          OKAY. 
          CHALLENGES. 
          YEAH. 
          HI, COUNCIL MAYOR, UH, GINA BENEDETTI, NIK, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. 
          EXCUSE ME. 
          UH, SO IN THE PAST YEAR, UH, WE, WE LEFT, UM, OUR BUDGET DISCUSSIONS WITH COUNCIL WITH, UM, CLEAR DIRECTION THAT, UM, THAT COUNCIL WAS NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING ANY, ANY BIG DECISIONS OR PROVIDING MUCH GUIDANCE ON, UM, ON ANY DESIGN ELEMENTS UNTIL WE HAD SOME, SOME, UM, PIVOTAL AND CRUCIAL COMMUNITY INPUT AND ASKED US TO COME BACK SUBSEQUENT TO THAT, TO SHARE WHAT WE'VE LEARNED AND ALSO TO PURSUE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING CONSTRAINTS AND GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHICH OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMIT AGENCIES, UH, WERE, WOULD HAVE MITIGATION, UH, ELEMENTS AND CONDITIONS, UM, FOR ANY PERMIT APPLICATION. 
          SO SUBSEQUENT TO THAT MEETING, WE STARTED IN, UM, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER MEETING, HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH ALL OF THE PERMIT AGENCIES. 
          SO THAT INCLUDED STATE LANDS WHO DOESN'T SEEM TO BE TOO CONCERNED ABOUT OR ACKNOWLEDGED THAT, UM, THAT THE TRESTLE IS SITTING ON TOP OF THEIR LAND WITHOUT A LEASE, UM, OR ANY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF IT. 
          WE HAVE A LOT OF STATE LANDS LEASES, UH, UP AND DOWN THE RIVER ON EACH SIDE OF THE RIVER THROUGHOUT PETALUMA. 
          AND THAT PARTICULAR ELEMENT HAS NO, NO LEASE UNDER IT. 
          UM, AT THE TIME WHEN WE WERE MEETING WITH THEM, WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND, WE UNDERSTOOD MUCH LESS ABOUT THE OWNERSHIP, UH, LANDSCAPE THAN WE DO NOW. 
          AND, UM, I'M, I'M, UH, I AM A LITTLE RETICENT TO TAKE THAT CONVERSATION FURTHER WITH STATE LANDS JUST YET, UNTIL WE HAVE SOME STRATEGIC CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH YOU ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, BUT IN ADDITION TO STATE 
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LANDS, WE TALK TO THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, AND WE TALKED TO THE US COAST GUARD AND WE TALKED TO FISH AND WILDLIFE, AND I'M FORGETTING A COUPLE OTHERS, BUT GIVES YOU THE IDEA. 
          WE HAD SEVERAL OF THOSE MEETINGS AND, UM, AND WE RECEIVE FEEDBACK. 
          WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF, UH, WHICH AG WHAT AGENCIES ARE CONCERNED WITH WHAT, SO FISH AND WILDLIFE IS CONCERNED WITH, UH, ANY CHANGES WE MAKE AND HOW THAT MIGHT AFFECT SHADING FOR, UH, FOR THE FISH SPECIES. 
          AND, UH, WE DID, DID NOT, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO, ALTHOUGH WE TRIED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH SHIPPO, THAT'S THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE, AND WE, UH, WERE ADVISED THAT THEY WILL, UM, ONLY ENGAGE IN DISCUSSIONS FOR, UH, THOSE APPLICATIONS THROUGH THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AS A FEDERAL AGENCY. 
          SO THEY WILL TALK TO US ONCE WE SUBMIT A FORMAL APPLICATION TO ARMY CORPS AND NOT BEFORE, AND THEN THEY WILL ONLY DO IT THROUGH ARMY CORPS. 
          ALTHOUGH THEY DID SAY THAT AT THAT POINT, THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD ENTERTAIN, UH, A DIRECT CONVERSATION WITH THE CITY AS WELL. 
          SO WE BASICALLY TALKED TO EVERYONE AND, AND I DID HAVE CORRESPONDENCE WITH SHIPPO, UM, TO LEARN AS, TO LEARN THAT MUCH AND TO CONFIRM THAT MUCH. 
          SO, UM, SO THAT ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, EXPLORATION THERE, THEY WERE CONSIDERED PRE-APPLICATION MEETINGS. 
          IT WAS A WAY TO GET PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION AND SOME IDEA OF WHERE THEIR RED FLAGS WOULD BE SO THAT WE COULD, UM, WE COULD PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND, AND SHARE THAT WITH COUNCIL. 
          AND I, AND I WILL BE PREPARED TO DO THAT. 
          I, I HAVE, UH, NOW A FINAL MEMO THAT SUMMARIZES ALL OF THEIR INPUT. 
          UM, AND THEN AS, AS WE HAD GATHERED THAT, UH, IT WAS LATE OCTOBER, WE WERE, UM, WE WERE CONSIDERING, UM, STARTING TO MOVE INTO MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND PRIOR TO COMING BACK TO COUNCIL IN FEBRUARY, WHICH WAS OUR PLAN, AS I THINK SOMEONE MENTIONED EARLIER, AND WE REALIZED THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE GOOD DATA AND GOOD RESEARCH YET ON THE OWNERSHIP SITUATION. 
          WE KNEW THAT IT WAS GONNA BE CRITICAL AND PIVOTAL TO THE CONVERSATION AND TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT. 
          BUT AT THAT POINT, WE, UH, WE ENGAGED, UH, UH, SJLA, STEPHEN J FRA ASSOCIATES TO, UH, TO DO THAT TITLE RESEARCH FOR US. 
          AND THEY WORKED ON THAT THROUGH THE WINTER AND, UM, AND BROUGHT TO US, UM, THEIR FINDINGS, UH, WHICH ERIC HAS JUST RECENTLY HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW. 
          UM, THAT'S THE WORK THAT WE HAVE PROCEEDED WITH. 
          AND WHILE, WHILE WE, UH, UH, WHILE WE ARRIVED AT THAT POINT WHERE WE NEEDED MORE INFORMATION ON OWNERSHIP, WE REALIZED WE REALLY NEEDED TO PAUSE ON THE OTHER PARALLEL ACTIVITIES IN THE PROJECT, NAMELY PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND ANY FURTHER, UM, UM, VISIONING OR DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS UNTIL WE UNDERSTOOD WHO THE STAKEHOLDERS WERE IN THE PROPERTY. 
          UM, AND THAT TAKES US UP FROM, FROM OUR LAST CONVERSATION IN JUNE TO PRESENT. 
          I APPRECIATE, IS THAT HELPFUL? YEAH, NO, I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I'M ON THE SMART BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SO WE KEEP GETTING THESE LETTERS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING MONEY INTO THE TRESTLE. 
          AND SO SMART STARTED, FINALLY LOOKED AT THE OWNERSHIP. 
          AND SO I'VE READ THEIR DOCUMENTS AND, UM, AND IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THEY WERE NOT THE OWNERS. 
          AND THAT WAS RECENTLY. 
          SO I'M REALLY GLAD THAT WE'RE KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT, UM, AT THIS POINT. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          OF COURSE. 
          AND THAT CONFIRMATION OF OWNERSHIP IS GOING TO BE REQUIRED FOR ANY GRANT MONEY THAT WE GO SEEK. 
          SO THAT IS KIND OF CRUCIAL. 
          UM, UM, YEAH, THIS IS, THIS IS ALL COMMON. 
          WHO'S, DO YOU WANNA STAY ON TRESTLE FOR A MINUTE? I MEAN, I THINK THE PUBLIC WANTS US TO STAY ON TRESTLE, SO, UH, WHO WANTS TO WEIGH IN ON, UM, THAT, UM, YEAH, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR, SO THERE YOU GO. 
          CONTINUE, PLEASE. 
          OKAY, I'LL CONT I ACTUALLY, UM, HAVE SPOKEN WITH CATHERINE GEIGER AND I'VE TALKED, BROUGHT A LOT OF PEOPLE DOWN TO THIS AREA. 
          I THINK, I JUST DON'T SEE THAT IT'S GONNA BE REHABILITATED, THE STRUCTURE ITSELF. 
          AND I THINK WE NEED JUST TO KIND OF START FRESH AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS DOWN THERE THE OTHER DAY WITH A FRIEND AND WE'RE LOOKING OVER AND YOU CAN'T SEE THE RIVER BECAUSE THE TRESTLE IS OBSTRUCTING IT. 
          AND SO HOW MANY YEARS ARE WE GONNA HAVE THAT SIT THERE? AND I FEEL AS A COUNCIL, WE CAN NEED TO MAKE A DECISION OF WHERE WE WANNA GO, 
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UM, BECAUSE I PERSONALLY DON'T SEE REAL REHABILITATION AS A VIABLE OPTION UNLESS I HEAR DIFFERENT FROM AN ENGINEER AND COSTS, AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S VIABLE. 
          SO I'M GONNA LEAVE IT AT THAT COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING, AND THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER KATO THOMPSON FOR BRINGING THIS UP, AND THANK YOU GINA, FOR, UM, ALL YOUR WORK ON THIS. 
          AND, UM, BEFORE I GET INTO MY QUESTION, CAN WE GET A COUNCIL WRITTEN UPDATE ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST GAVE US? ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HAPPY TO DO THAT. 
          I WAS TRYING TO TAKE NOTES AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE SAME TIME AND TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. 
          CAN WE, AS A CITY COUNCIL OR A CITY FORCE, THE, UM, THE, WHAT DID YOU CALL IT, SHIPPO STATE, CAN WE FORCE THEM TO, UM, TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY? AND ALSO THERE WAS A PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT THE GREAT PALAMA MILL POSSIBLY FALLING INTO THE RIVER. 
          SO WE MIGHT WANT TO HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT, I DON'T KNOW, BUILDING INSPECTION ON THAT. 
          UM, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE REALLY A TERRIBLE THING. 
          AND THEN ANOTHER THING IS, I ALWAYS SAY THE PUBLIC WANTS TO KNOW WHY IS THERE A CHAINING FENCE? WHY IS THIS TRESTLE LABA? WHAT IS THE BACKGROUND? IF, IF WE HAD SIGNAGE AND BEFORE IT WAS A, A FUNDRAISING SIGNAGE, HOW MUCH MONEY WE PUT INTO THIS, BUT A QR CODE THAT TOOK YOU TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE THAT TOLD THE PUBLIC WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS PROJECT? WHY IS IT AN EYESORE? WHY IS IT STILL SITTING HERE? WE WERE JUST GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH SOME PHOTOS AND ARTWORK FROM THE OLD EXCHANGE BANK IN GOLDEN EAGLE SHOPPING CENTER THAT SHOWED THE LAST TIME IT WAS WALKED ON. 
          AND THAT WAS DURING THE PETALUMA RIVER FESTIVAL IN THE NINETIES. 
          AND WE WERE REALLY LUCKY. 
          WE JUST PUT PLYWOOD DOWN, BUT IT'S GONE REAL DOWNHILL SINCE THEN. 
          SO STATE OF THE ATTORNEY, WHAT CAN WE FORCE THE STATE LANDS TO DO? I DON'T THINK WE CAN FORCE THEM TO DO ANYTHING. 
          WE CAN, WE CAN, UM, THE COUNCIL CAN PROVIDE DIRECTION IN LIGHT OF NEW FACTS, WHICH I THINK ARE RELATIVELY NEW FOR SMART TWO, BECAUSE I THINK WE WOULD'VE HEARD A SIMILAR CONCLUSION FROM THEM A LOT EARLIER IF THEY, IF THEY HAD THE INFORMATION TO SUPPORT IT. 
          'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY LOOK UPON, YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK, ANYWAY, I THINK WE WOULD'VE HEARD THAT FROM THEM SOONER. 
          UM, I, I THINK, I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED COUNCIL DIRECTION AND DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNCIL TO HELP HELP THEM FRAME IT IN VIEW OF, OF WHAT SEEMED TO BE THE CURRENT FACTS THAT SEEM TO BE PRETTY STABLE. 
          THERE PROBABLY NEED TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH THE FOLKS THAT MAY BE THE CURRENT OWNERS. 
          THERE. 
          PROBABLY NEED TO BE DISCUSSIONS WITH STATE LANDS BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN THE RECORD ABOUT STATE LANDS AUTHORIZATION OR TIDE LAND TRUST AUTH AUTHORIZATION REGARDING THOSE IMPROVEMENTS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT EASEMENT GRANT, I REFERRED TO IT, IT'S LIKE, IT'S AMAZING WHAT THEY USED TO DO IN THE 1940S WITH TWO PAGES. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          SO, UM, AND YOU KNOW, THIS WAS STARTED, UM, SOME OF THE FIRST EASEMENT DOCUMENTS WERE IN 1938, AND THEN THE ONE I REFERRED TO AS 1942. 
          SO THIS IS LEADING UP TO AND DURING THE WAR. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT GOING ON BACK THEN. 
          UH, A LOT OF HISTORY GOING ON. 
          SO, UM, I DON'T HAVE, UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE A ROADMAP TO GIVE YOU, BUT WHEN WE KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THE COUNCIL, UM, WANTS TO DIRECT IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT INFORMATION, AND IF, IF THERE'S FURTHER INFORMATION THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO HELP GIVE THAT DIRECTION, THEN, THEN WE'LL HAVE A BETTER SENSE AND WE CAN, WE CAN GIVE SPECIFICS. 
          AND I'M, AND I'M HAPPY TO SUMMARIZE WHAT WE HAVE AND FILL IN BLANKS AS BEST AS I CAN, AS THE COUNCIL MAY WISH. 
          UH, WELL, OKAY. 
          CAN I OFFER A QUICK CLARIFICATION? I'M SORRY, MAYOR, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW MENTIONED, AND, AND OR I THINK, UM, SOMEONE IN PUBLIC COMMENT ALSO MENTIONED CONCERN ABOUT, ABOUT THE MILLS STRUCTURAL STABILITY. 
          AND WE DO HAVE INSPECTORS THAT ARE WATCHING THIS CLOSELY. 
          THERE IS CONCERN, BUT IT ISN'T BECAUSE THE MILLS STRUCTURE IS, IS SHOWING ANY SIGNS OF SETTLEMENT. 
          IT'S THE WHARF NEXT TO THE PEDAL OF THE MILL THAT SEEMS TO BE SETTLING AND AT A SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH RATE THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, BE, AND IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THE, TO THE WALKWAY. 
          UM, AND 
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SO WE'RE LOOKING VERY HARD AT THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, BUT IT'S NOT THE MILL, THE MILL'S. 
          SO DO WE OWN THAT WHARF? WHO, WHO'S THE OWNER AND RESPONSIBLE PARTY, VERY LIKELY THE SUCCESSORS TO THE MCNAIR COMPANY, THE, THE MILL OWNERS. 
          THERE'S MAYBE A LITTLE PIECE OF IT THAT WE HAVE, BUT, UM, IT'S, THAT'S A HUGE LIABILITY. 
          SO YEAH. 
          SHOULD WE SEND THEM A LETTER INDICATING AS THE, THE ACTUAL OWNERS THAT THIS IS A, A HUGE LIABILITY FOR SAFETY FOR OUR COMMUNITY? UH, I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS START HAVING SOME CONVERSATIONS, BECAUSE IT'S NOT FOR US TO ADVISE THEM OR OR CONCLUDE WHAT THEIR PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE OR AREN'T. 
          AND THEY MAY HAVE INFORMATION THAT WE LACK, UM, AND LIKELY THEY HAVE THEIR OWN, YOU KNOW, POSITIONS ON WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY BOUGHT, YOU KNOW? SO I THINK THERE'S SOME, SOME FURTHER INFORMATION TO BE HAD. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA JUMP IN IF I CAN. 
          AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE THE BEGINNING WE'VE KNOWN THIS WAS NOT, CITY PROPERTY HAS NEVER BEEN CONFUSED. 
          WE ALWAYS SAID SMART OR SO, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS NEVER CITY LANDS. 
          WE ALSO KNEW IT WASN'T, UH, ABLE TO FIT IN OUR PRIORITY OF FUNDING. 
          WE KNEW WE COULD DO THE SEED MONEY, BUT WE KNEW. 
          SO I THINK WHAT I'M NOT HEARING IS THE PARTNERSHIP. 
          I HEAR THE CITY TRYING TO LEAD A TRAIN THAT DOESN'T WANNA GO DOWN THE TRESTLE. 
          AND REALLY WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS IT HAS TO HAVE MORE PARTNERSHIP. 
          SO WE DON'T DEMAND OF STATE LANDS, WE GO AND COLLABORATE WITH STATE LANDS, WE INVITE THEM IN TO US, COULD HELP THEM WITH THE PROBLEM THEY'RE HAVING. 
          THE LIABILITY US COULD DO THIS WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS. 
          WE HAVE THE, THE WOMEN'S CLUB AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. 
          BUT THE REASON WE'D BE PARTNERS ON IT IS BECAUSE WE FELT IT WAS AN ESSENTIAL ASSET TO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          THE THING WE ARE IN CHARGE OF IS OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO HAVING ACCESS TO THE RIVER THAT, UH, PLACE, UH, THAT WE TALK ABOUT IN THAT 20 19, 20 20, UH, BOARDS IS THAT THIS WAS WHAT WE VIEWED AS ESSENTIAL TO PETALUMA. 
          HAVING RIVER ACCESS, HAVING RIVERVIEW CONNECTING. 
          SO IN ONE SENSE, THE VISION SAID THAT IN A SECOND SENSE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SAYS THAT I'D LOVE TO, TO SPEAK OR SAID, HEY, IF WE STUDIED IT, WE'D SHOW THAT THAT WAS A LOT OF MONEY COMING INTO TOWN FROM PEOPLE WHO AREN'T AFRAID OF BLIGHT OR, YOU KNOW, WHO, WHO WERE TURNED AWAY BY BLIGHT, BUT WOULD ACTUALLY DO MORE FOR THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES IF WE HAD HERE. 
          SO I THINK WE NEED TO START NOT FROM A POSITION OF WHAT'S THE ENGINEERING ON IT, IT'S ALWAYS ON WHO ARE THE PARTNERS WHO CAN HELP US GET OVER THE FINISH LINE? SO MANY THINGS WE'VE GOTTEN HUGE GRANTS FOR. 
          I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL COUNTING ON NEXT GRANTS ON THINGS, EVEN IN A TOUGH ENVIRONMENT. 
          UM, SO FIRST WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT IS THIS THE COMMUNITY'S VISION? AND THAT'S THE STEP WE THOUGHT WE DID BY GETTING IT ON THE TOP 10, YOU KNOW, SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS AGO. 
          AND NOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN ON THE TOP 10, BUT WE HAVEN'T MOVED IT FORWARD. 
          LET'S TRY IT FROM A PARTNERSHIP PERSPECTIVE. 
          LET'S TRY IT FROM, IT'S THE COMMUNITY'S VISION FOR US. 
          AND THEN THE REST OF THE DECISIONS FOLLOW THAT. 
          NOT, NOT THE FIRST ONE OF, YOU KNOW, THE PILES AND PEERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          GOOD RESEARCH WILL TELL US WHO GOOD PARTNERS WILL BE. 
          THAT'S ESSENTIAL RESEARCH, FINDING OUT THAT SHIPPER MIGHT STONEWALL US AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          BUT, BUT THEN WE GO TO ALLIES WHO GET US THIS THING. 
          BUT IF WE KEEP TRYING TO GET OVER HURDLES ON OUR OWN AND INDIVIDUALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT SUCCEEDING. 
          WE NEED TO HAVE ALLIES, WE NEED TO HAVE PARTNERS WE'RE WORKING WITH. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE I'D HOPE THIS NEXT YEAR, UM, WOULD BE THAT WE'D DRIVE THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SUCH THAT THEY GOT THEIR SAY ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. 
          AND THAT WILL HELP US CONVINCE LEGISLATORS, CONVINCE, UH, WHOEVER WE HAVE AT REGULATORY SIDES THAT YEAH, THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY VALUE. 
          THAT'S WHY I'D LIKE TO SEE IT IN OUR TOP 10 ANYWHERE ON THE TRESTLE COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY. 
          UM, I JUST, WHEN THIS DOES COME BACK TO US, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND I'VE ASKED FOR IT BEFORE, THAT WE CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, OLDER REPORTS ABOUT RESTORATION OF THE EXISTING TRESTLE. 
          UM, I, I THINK THERE'S BEEN A LOT, BEEN A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS MADE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE THING NEEDS TO GO. 
          UM, AND I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT. 
          I MEAN, ESPECIALLY FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, MONEY'S TIGHT RIGHT NOW. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHAT IS A VERY HISTORIC STRUCTURE IF, YOU KNOW, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THE ODDFELLOWS BUILDING JUST GOT RESTORED AND THAT HAD SOME, UH, STUFF HIDING UNDER THE SURFACE THAT MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT TO DO SO. 
          AND MAYBE IT'D BEEN EASIER TO TEAR THE BUILDING DOWN AND START OVER. 
          BUT IT WAS A HISTORIC BUILDING THAT'S PART OF PETALUMA, AND PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE THAT SAVED. 
          AND NOW IT'S 
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FINISHED AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL. 
          AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF THAT EXTRA WORK THAT WENT INTO PRESERVING IT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THAT TRESTLE IS A BIG PART OF OUR HISTORY. 
          UM, IF WE RIP IT OUT AND START WITH SOMETHING NEW, WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THE BUILDING THAT'S ON THE CORNER OF THE, UH, BOULEVARD IN WESTERN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT STUCCO BUILDING. 
          SO I THINK, I THINK WHEN THIS DOES COME BACK TO US, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT OLD REPORT. 
          WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE TO ACTUALLY RESTORE WHAT'S EXISTING THERE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND SIMPLY REPLACING STUFF LIKE THE DECK TIES AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DECK ITSELF. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE A MUCH QUICKER SOLUTION IN, IN GETTING THINGS FIXED UP. 
          SO WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY IS YOU AGREE IT'S A COMMUNITY VALUE THAT YOU WANNA SUPPORT. 
          REPLACING THE TRESTLE, FIXING IT UP, ENDING THE BLIGHT PROBLEM THERE. 
          YOU'RE BEHIND CONTINUING FOCUS ON THE TRESTLE. 
          YEAH, AND I WAS LAST SUMMER TOO, WHEN, WHEN WE DISCUSSED IT AT COUNCIL, I DO WANT TO SEE IT RESTORED AND, AND, YOU KNOW, BE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND CONTRIBUTE IN ALL THE WAYS EVERYBODY ELSE WANTS TO SEE IT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS A KID, I USED TO SIT ON IT AND WATCH THE BOATS COME IN DURING PARADES, YOU KNOW, I WANT MORE KIDS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          AND SO YEAH, I THINK IT SHOULD BE A PRIORITY GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, BUT I ALSO THINK THAT THAT IS A HISTORIC STRUCTURE. 
          WE NEED TO LOOK AT SAVING IT COUNCIL MEMBER REBS. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST FOR THE, UH, TRESTLE, UM, I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO BREAK IT UP INTO TWO PHASES AND COMMUNICATE AS TWO PHASES. 
          UM, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA REACH AGREEMENT ON ANYTHING FOR WHAT THE END PRODUCT IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. 
          THAT WOULD BE PHASE TWO. 
          UM, AND THAT'S GONNA BE SEVERAL YEARS DOWN THE ROAD UNTIL WE GET PHASE ONE, WHICH IS REMOVAL OF THE HAZARDOUS AND AND SAFETY ISSUE THAT IT IS. 
          SO PHASE ONE, AND IF WE WANNA GET THE COMMUNITY BEHIND THIS, WE'VE GOTTA GET THEM CONVINCED, YES, WE NEED TO RAISE THE MONEY, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE, UM, IF THE BUILDING OWNERS OWN THAT PART, UM, WHICH THEY'VE GOTTA RESIST, AND THEN WHATEVER IT TAKES IS GONNA BE YEARS AND YEARS BEFORE THAT GET TO RESOLVE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO STEP UP AND PROBABLY WORK WITH THEM AS PARTNERS AS WELL AS THE STATE AND, UM, AND LOOK AT, UH, MAKE IT A, A BROWNFIELD SITE. 
          BECAUSE AS TOXIC AS IT IS, IT MAY BE AN OFFICIAL OR SHOULD BE A BROWNFIELD SITE ACTUALLY. 
          AND, UM, WE NEED TO FIND WAYS OF REMOVING THE HAZARD THAT IT IS ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SAFETY WISE AND SAY WE, WE NEED TO GET THE COMMUNITY TO HELP US RAISE THE MONEY AS WELL AS, SO AS ONE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BUILDING WITH US AND, AND MAYBE SOME OTHER STATE FEDERAL, GET WHAT WE CAN THERE AND THEN GET THAT DONE FIRST AND SAY THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL. 
          THAT'S GONNA BE A, THAT MIGHT BE A FIVE YEAR, SIX YEAR GOAL JUST RIGHT THERE. 
          AND THEN WE CAN START THINKING ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO WITH IT TO BUILD IT BACK UP TO WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE. 
          AND WE MAY DECIDE TO DO IT RESTORATION. 
          WE MAY DO A A, A HUGE PLAZA INSTEAD, UH, BUT WE'LL DECIDE AT THAT TIME. 
          AND IT MIGHT BE A D IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE A DIFFERENT COUNCIL MAKING THAT DECISION DOWN THE ROAD SIX YEARS FROM NOW. 
          SO, UM, IT'S JUST WE REALLY PUSH HARD ON, UH, GATHERING THE COMMUNITY BEHIND A, UM, REMOVAL OF THE DEBRIS, THE EYESORE, THE TOXICITY, THE SAFETY HAZARD, UM, GET THAT DONE AS A, AS A PRIORITY. 
          AND THEN, UM, WORRY ABOUT THE VISION LATER. 
          I'LL JUST MAKE A COMMENT. 
          OH, GO AHEAD, FRANK. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ACQUAINTANCE. 
          YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK WITH, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S SO MUCH NEW INFORMATION TONIGHT THAT, UH, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO, EXCUSE ME, HARD TO DIGEST IN THE MOMENT, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE TRESTLE WHAT IT IS NOW, IT CAN'T, IT'S, IT CAN'T STAY THE WAY IT IS. 
          LIKE IF, IF WE HAVE THE SAME TRESTLE IN 15 YEARS, YOU KNOW, I KIND OF FEEL LIKE AS COMMUNITY LEADERS, WE'RE DOING OUR COMMUNITY A DIS UH, A DISSERVICE AND, AND WE'RE MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND SO I THINK FOR ME PERSONALLY, I THINK THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE OVER THE NEXT YEAR IS FIGURING OUT WHAT SORT OF, WHAT THE IMPLICATIONS ARE OF THIS OWNERSHIP, UH, HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND STARTING TO FORMULATE, UM, THE LONG-TERM PLAN SO THAT WE CAN EITHER REPLACE IT IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER. 
          YEAH. 
          COUNCILMAN KIM THOMPSON, DO YOU HAVE AN ADD? I, I AGREE. 
          AND I PROBABLY KNEW MORE INFORMATION THAN MOST COUNCIL MEMBERS, SO I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THIS IS KIND OF NEW TO EVERYBODY, BUT I FEEL LIKE KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD IS NOT WHAT WE NEED TO DO. 
          I MEAN, I WALKED DOWN THERE WITH PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED IN THIS AREA, CONTRACTORS, 
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AND EVERYBODY'S SAYING THE SAME THING. 
          I MEAN, THIS THING TO REHABILITATE THE WHAT'S EXISTING THERE IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE UNLESS YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, MONEY JUST TO THROW AWAY. 
          AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MEETING WITH THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA GO VERY FAR WITH THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AT THIS POINT. 
          AND SO I'M NOT SURE IF WE WANNA KICK THIS DOWN THE ROAD, JUST SO ANOTHER COUNCIL CAN BE PRESENTED WITH THE SAME INFORMATION. 
          AND, AND I JUST THINK THAT I, I THINK WILLING TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION FROM, FROM, UM, AGENCIES, BUT I DO NOT SEE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE A REHABILITATE THIS, I'M JUST GONNA BE A REALIST. 
          AND WHEN YOU STAND THERE, AND I URGE PEOPLE TO GO DOWN THERE AND JUST STAND AWAY FROM THE TRESTLE AND THEN LOOK AND SEE WHAT CAN BE, JUST EVEN TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE RIVER WOULD BE REALLY NICE. 
          AND RIGHT NOW WE CAN'T. 
          AND I THINK, AND I URGE PEOPLE TO WALK DOWN ON THE DOCK AND REALLY LOOK AT IT AND LOOK VERY CLOSELY. 
          IT'S A TOXIC DUMP DOWN THERE AT THIS POINT, ESPECIALLY AT LOW TIDE. 
          COUNCILMAN BARNACLE. 
          ANYTIME . 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I DO WANT TO MOVE ON FROM THIS BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER GREAT STUFF TO TALK. 
          FIRST, THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION, EVERYBODY WHO'S IN THE ROOM. 
          UM, THERE'S TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK THAT GOES ON EVERY DAY. 
          UM, WHAT, WHAT, LIKE, IS A HUGE NEW WRINKLE TO ME IS THE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, BECAUSE IN A TYPICAL THING WE WOULD SAY, LET'S DO A PUBLIC WORKSHOP. 
          IT'S OWNED BY SMART IT'S OWN, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN TRANSFER TO THE CITY. 
          UM, IF IT'S A PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, WE CAN'T COMPEL THAT, RIGHT? IT'S, SO THIS IS WHERE I'M, THIS IS, WELL, IT'S ONLY THE ONLY THE ONBOARD SIDE, THE TR THE TRES ITSELF IS ESTATE LANDS, RIGHT? ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IS THE, THE UNDERLYING LAND, AS BEST AS WE CAN DETERMINE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          BUT ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IS, WHAT ABOUT THE STRUCTURE? WHO OWNS THAT? SO, I MEAN, UH, IT FEELS TO ME THAT WE'VE GOTTA FIGURE THE THAT OUT. 
          UM, I COMPLETELY AGREE THAT IT'S, UM, FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE SITTING UP HERE, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE LIKE NEGLECTING OUR DUTIES EVERY TIME WE WALK BY IT. 
          SO, UM, I DO WANNA SEE US CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON IT. 
          UM, I AM LESS CONCERNED ABOUT SEEING A TOTALLY HISTORIC TRESTLE. 
          I'M OBVIOUSLY MUCH MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING A BEAUTIFUL WATERFRONT THAT, UM, BRINGS PEOPLE DOWNTOWN AND THAT WE FEEL, UM, IS A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY. 
          UM, I THINK WE'VE GOTTA START TALKING WITH THE OWNERS AND FIGURING OUT WHAT'S POSSIBLE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S TAX RELIEF FOR THE PRIVATE PROPERTY THERE OR WHETHER, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS. 
          LIKE THERE'S GOTTA BE CREATIVE THINGS WE CAN DO. 
          I MEAN, HOW WE CAN, YOU KNOW, PUT A PROPERTY TAX BOND ON IF WE, IF WE'RE THAT, YOU KNOW, COMPELLED TO DO IT, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, PUT SOMETHING ON THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC FOR THAT. 
          UM, BUT IT IS, UH, IT'S A BLIGHT QUITE FRANKLY, AND IT'S A, A NUISANCE AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE, AND I DON'T WANT TO KEEP COMING BACK NINE MONTHS LATER AND NINE MONTHS LATER AND LIKE MORE STUFF THAT WE FIGURED OUT, BUT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY, LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE A PATH FORWARD. 
          SO SOME SORT OF A PATH FORWARD IS, IS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR ON THIS. 
          AND I WAS JUST LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAD LAST JUNE, AND IT WAS COMMUNITY MEETING IN FALL AND WE'RE JUST, UM, I CAN SEE WHY WE DIDN'T HAVE THE COMMUNITY MEETING, BUT I, I, I DEFINITELY FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA JUST CONTINUE TO STYMIE US. 
          UM, AND WITH THAT, I THINK THE PRIORITY IS TO LIKE, GET THE STUFF THAT'S ACTUALLY MOVING DONE, BECAUSE THE LONGER THINGS DRAG OUT, THE HIGHER THE COST GO, AND WE DON'T GET THE RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT. 
          SO, UM, LIKE WE NEED TO KEEP KICKING THIS CAN, UM, AND KEEP MOVING IT FORWARD BECAUSE IT, IT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT. 
          UM, BUT I DON'T WANNA SEE THE GENERAL PLAN SLIP. 
          I DON'T WANNA SEE THE, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC PLAN SLIP. 
          I DON'T WANNA SEE THE ZONING CODE SLIP, UM, ALL THE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE STUFF THAT WE'RE GONNA TAKE OUT BONDS FOR. 
          WE NEED TO SPEND THAT MONEY AND, AND SEE THE, THE BENEFITS. 
          SO, UM, TO ME, LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO KEEP TRUDGING FORWARD ON, BUT LIKE, UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING I'M READY TO PUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTO RIGHT NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE DON'T, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO. 
          WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT A PATH FORWARD. 
          UM, I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MORE INVOLVED IN IT. 
          IT IS TRUE, TOTALLY AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE. 
          UM, MUCH MORE SO THAN LIKE, AT, AT LEAST AT THIS POINT, IT FEELS MORE LIKE A, IT FEELS MORE LIKE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE THAN IT DOES THE PUBLIC WORKS ISSUE, UM, BECAUSE OF JUST SORT OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE PLANNING AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, AND WHAT, LIKE, WHAT THE ACTUAL VALUE IS TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE RELY ON TO 
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 GET TOILET WATER TO THE WATER TREATMENT FACILITY OR TO DRIVE ON OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          IT'S, IT'S TRULY A, AN AMENITY THAT IS THERE. 
          UM, THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD POINT TO PLATES TO, UM, WRAP ON. 
          OH YEAH. 
          I JUST DON'T WANNA SPEND ALL NIGHT HERE, OTHERWISE WE SHOULDN'T. 
          I THINK THAT MAKE A MOTION TO GO BEYOND TO LET EVERYBODY WEIGHED IN ON JESSE. 
          AND SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HERE, NOW I, CAN I ASK ONE QUESTION JUST FOR OUR, UM, INFORMATION, UH, OVERLOAD HERE. 
          HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT GINA ON, ON THE TRESTLE SO FAR? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE'RE MAKING IT A PRIORITY AND IT'S BEEN IN OUR PRIORITIES, BUT WE HAVE SPENT MONEY AND I'VE CIRCLED THE PUBLIC SPEAKER THAT SAYS, INCREASE REVENUES, AND WE'RE NOT INCREASING REVENUES BY SPENDING MONEY ON THE TRESTLE. 
          SO HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE WE SPENT? I, I CAN'T OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD GIVE YOU A HARD NUMBER. 
          I CAN TELL YOU IN THIS LAST YEAR WHEN I BECAME MOST CLOSELY INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT, WE SPENT VERY LITTLE ACTUALLY, BECAUSE WE'VE HAVEN'T ENGAGED OUR, UH, OUR CONSULTANTS OTHER THAN MEETINGS WITH AGENCIES. 
          SO, UM, WE MIGHT HAVE SPENT IN THE ORDER OF MAGNITUDE OF, UM, MAYBE 300,000 AND THEN THERE'S STAFF TIME, BUT THERE, BUT THERE WAS MONEY SPENT PRIOR TO THAT YEAR AND AND YOUR STAFF'S TIME STAFF ON THIS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ON STREETS . 
          THAT'S TRUE. 
          UM, AND I DON'T HAVE HOURS FOR YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          IT'S, IT'S MUCH LESS SIGNIFICANT THAN, THAN OUR, UM, THAN OUR THIRD PARTY CONSULTANTS. 
          AND THE BUDGET WILL REVEAL THE EXPENDITURE ON THE PROJECT. 
          WE'LL BUDGET ALL THAT FOR YOU YEAH. 
          IN, IN THE BUDGET. 
          WE DO. 
          AND I CAN SEND IT TO YOU AS WELL. 
          IN MEANTIME, IF WE CAN HAVE A, A COUNCIL UPDATE ON THE TRESTLE, HOW MUCH WE'VE SPENT SO FAR. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT WAY WE ARE TRANSPARENT. 
          WE'VE, WE CAN SHARE IT WITH THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND COUNCIL DE CARLEY, DID YOU HAVE ONE OTHER? UM, I JUST HAD ONE QUICK COMMENT THAT'S ALREADY, IT'S BEEN TOUCHED ON, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK THAT THE CITY, WELL OWNERSHIP REALLY NEEDS TO BE DETERMINED ON THE TRESTLE FIRST AND IN A VIABLE PATH FORWARD WITH THE CITY BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOME SORT OF A PLAN, YOU KNOW, WHICH WE DO NEED. 
          THE TRESTLE DOES NEED TO BE DONE. 
          UM, BUT WE NEED TO SORT SOME THINGS OUT BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO PLAN. 
          RIGHT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BARNELL. 
          ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA SWITCH GEARS. 
          WELL, I'M, I'M SORRY, I'M GONNA CLOSE, I'M GONNA PUT BOTH. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND ONE, YES, PLEASE. 
          SO, UM, YEAH, IT, IT IS MY THOUGHT THAT, UM, UM, THAT WE NEED PARTNERS AS I MENTIONED, AND, AND I THINK THAT MOST PARTNERS WILL BE GLAD TO SEE US. 
          AND IF WE HAVE ANY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S GRANTS THAT PAY THE CONSTRUCTION, THEN IF THE TRESTLE STRUCTURE IS OWNED BY SOMEONE ELSE WHO IS PROBABLY SEEING A LIABILITY, THEY'RE PROBABLY GONNA BE HAPPY THAT WE HAVE A GRANT. 
          IF WE DON'T HAVE A GRANT, WE DON'T GET INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS. 
          WE DON'T ASSUME THEIR LIABILITY, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 
          BUT I THINK US IS GOING IN A BENEVOLENT WAY AND SAYING, THIS LIABILITY OF YOURS IS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY HAS AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT FROM. 
          YOU KNOW, LET US HELP YOU. 
          I THINK WE'LL BE IN A BETTER PLACE ON THAT, BUT I THINK STAFFS CAN SWEAR IT CUT OUT FROM THE DIVERSE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE TONIGHT. 
          AND, UM, SO WITH THAT COUNCIL MEMBER, BARNACLE, YOU WANTED TO TEE US OFF A DIFFERENT WAY HERE. 
          OH. 
          UM, AND PARDON ME. 
          ONE, I'M GONNA DO ONE MORE. 
          THERE WERE A FEW PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT WERE PRETTY DARN ENGAGING, UH, THAT MAYBE COULD GET DIRECT, UM, COMMENTARY ON AND CITY MANAGER. 
          DO YOU HAVE SOME? YEAH, I WANTED TO RESPOND ON THE ARENA REALLY QUICKLY HERE, JUST, UH, 'CAUSE WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT WATERWAYS, . 
          UM, SO STAFF HAS BEEN ENGAGING WITH THE STATE ON OUR MARINA, UM, TO TRY TO RESOLVE THE LOAN THAT STILL EXISTS ON THAT PARTICULAR FACILITY. 
          IT'S ROUGHLY A $4 MILLION LOAN. 
          UM, AND AS I, I THINK WE'VE SHARED PREVIOUSLY AND HAS BEEN IN ALL OF OUR FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR MANY YEARS, THE CITY, TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, HAS NEVER PAID A, A PAYMENT AGAINST THAT LOAN. 
          AND IT CONTINUES TO ACCRUE INTEREST EVERY YEAR. 
          SO THAT TOTAL BALANCE IS NOW UP OVER $7 MILLION A YEAR. 
          WE'VE ENGAGED THE STATE, THEY HAVE BEEN WILLING TO COME TO THE TABLE AND TALK TO US ABOUT SOME SIGNIFICANT, UM, REDO OF THAT PARTICULAR AGREEMENT TO GET IT PAID DOWN IN A WAY THAT WOULD BE FINANCIALLY DOABLE FOR THE CITY, UH, WHILE ALSO POTENTIALLY WAIVING A LARGE QUANTITY OF THAT INTEREST. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT WIN FOR THE CITY IF WE CAN GET THAT NEGOTIATED. 
          IT'S STILL WORKING ON IT, SO NOTHING FORMAL TO REPORT. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE, I THINK, OPTIMISTIC THAT WE CAN GET TO AN AGREEMENT THAT WILL, THAT WILL MAKE THAT MORE SUSTAINABLE. 
          NOW THAT DOESN'T, UH, THAT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE OPERATIONS OF THE MARINA, YOU KNOW, WHICH STILL, UH, OVER THE PAST NUMBER OF YEARS HAVE OPERATED IN THE NEGATIVE. 
          SO THAT'S ANOTHER 
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ISSUE THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS AT BUDGET TIME. 
          UM, BUT AT LEAST ON THE LOAN PORTION, WE'VE HOPEFULLY MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, IT'S A GOOD SEGUE ACTUALLY. 
          UM, SHEDDING THINGS THAT ARE OPERATING AT A DEFICIT FEEL LIKE A GOOD THING RIGHT NOW, UM, TO, TO, AS A PRIORITY FOR US. 
          UM, SO I'M JUST GONNA START THERE. 
          DO YOU WANT ME TO LIKE TEE UP AN ISSUE? 'CAUSE I GOT LITERALLY A LIST OF THINGS HERE THAT I WANT TO RUN THROUGH. 
          UH, TWO, TAKE TWO OR THREE AND DRAW A BREATH AND, OKAY. 
          SOUNDS, SEE WHERE SOUNDS, WHO WEIGHS IN. 
          UM, UM, OKAY. 
          SO 800 PRAS IS A LOT, CAITLYN. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          I KNOW THAT'S A TEAM EFFORT TOO, WITH THE WHOLE CITY MANAGEMENT STAFF. 
          EVERY PRA THAT COMES IN, WE HAVE TO LOOK OVER AND ALL OF THAT AND, UM, TAKING CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF OUR STAFF TIME. 
          UM, SO I'M INTERESTED IN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY AS I SAID, MAKING SURE THAT THINGS DON'T SLIP THAT ARE ALREADY IN MOTION, GET 'EM DONE. 
          UM, I'M WONDERING, WHAT IS IT, WHAT'S THE OUTLOOK LOOKING LIKE FOR SAFE RIGHT NOW? CURRENTLY, AS IT STANDS WITH THE COUNTY, WE PROBABLY HAVE 18 MONTHS OF FULL FUNDING, AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING UN UNLESS MERO GETS EXTENDED. 
          SO WE WILL BE COVERING HALF OF SAFE IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, AND THEN FULL COST IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS, WHICH WOULD BE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          SO WE HAVE FUNDING MEASURE O WAS APPROVED IN 2020. 
          WE'RE IN 2026, SO WE'LL BE 2030. 
          YEAH. 
          BASICALLY WE WILL BE ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF WITHOUT FUNDING FOR, FOR THE SAFE PROGRAM? CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          DO YOU KNOW IF THEY'RE PLANNING TO RENEW THAT TAX? I'M HEARING MUTTERINGS, BUT I'M, I'M HOPING THAT THEY'RE GONNA START TO REALLY FOCUS ON MESSAGING AND, AND WORKING ON OUR MOST PUBLIC FACING PROGRAM, WHICH IS, WHICH IS OUR MOBILE CRISIS. 
          YEAH. 
          COUNTYWIDE. 
          I'M JUST WONDERING IF MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WHETHER WE SHOULD JUST STOP PARTICIPATING IN COUNTY TAXES IF WE'RE NOT GETTING . 
          UM, THOSE, UH, GETTING THE, THE VALUE BACK. 
          UM, I JUST, THAT'S, IT'S UN UNACCEPTABLE IN MY OPINION. 
          UM, I AM, I, I HAVE A SUSPICION THAT OUR INCLUSIONARY ZONING ORDINANCE IS HAVING, UM, NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON OUR ABILITY TO BUILD HOUSING. 
          UM, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT, UH, AT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, AND WITH OUR ZONING CODE UPDATE AND THINGS LIKE THAT, UM, IT'S NOT LOST ON ME THAT PROJECTS LIKE OYSTER COVE ARE STALLED RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, I'VE HEARD SOME MUMBLINGS ABOUT SOME OTHER PROJECTS THAT MAY BE STALLING. 
          UM, AND I JUST, UH, I THINK THAT'S, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF NEW RESEARCH COMING OUT THAT'S SAYING THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY HAVING THE, THE INTENDED IMPACT AND IT'S FUNCTIONING ACTUALLY AS A TAX ON, ON NEW PROJECTS VERSUS, UM, ACTUALLY GETTING, GETTING PROJECTS BUILT. 
          UM, I THINK WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT OUR PARKING ORDINANCE. 
          I THINK A SURGICAL UPDATE TO THE PARKING ORDINANCE. 
          I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A BIG WORKSHOP ON IT, BUT IT FEELS LIKE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD, WE'VE SAID WE WE'RE GONNA GET DONE. 
          UM, WE'VE DONE THE TREE ORDINANCE, WE'VE DONE OTHER THINGS. 
          GETTING THE PARKING ORDINANCE DONE DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A HEAVY LIFT. 
          UM, UPDATING THE, THE 72 HOUR, UM, THRESHOLD FEELS LIKE A VERY, UM, LIGHT LIFT INDEED. 
          UM, I WHOLLY AGREE THAT AI FOR PERMITTING STUFF, IT'S GONNA REVOLUTIONIZE IT. 
          UM, WE JUST ADOPTED A, A TREE ORDINANCE AND SOMEONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ASK, DO I NEED A TREE PERMIT AND GET THAT ANSWER WITHOUT HAVING TO INTERACT WITH A PERSON. 
          UM, SAME THING WITH OUR MUNICIPAL CODE, OUR ZONING CODE, ALL OF THAT. 
          I THINK, UM, AN AI POLICY IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT WE CAN BE ON THE FRONTIER OF, UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT MAKING OUR, LIKE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE WORKFLOWS OF STAFF, BUT ALSO THE ACCESSIBILITY OF GOVERNMENT. 
          SO I'M, UH, DEFINITELY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. 
          MAYBE WE TAKE A BREAK NOW AND KIND OF SEE WHO'S SURE. 
          WHO'S GOT SURE. 
          WE CAN SOME INTEREST ON, YOU HAD 800 PRAS AS YOUR, UH, FIRST THING, I MEAN, OTHER THAN THANKING CAITLIN FOR THE EFFORT, UH, WAS THERE, WAS THERE A, A POLICY CONSIDERATION IN THAT? UH, I DON'T HAVE A POLICY CONSIDERATION THERE. 
          NO, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          UM, I MEAN, IT'S MIND BOGGLING HOW MUCH TIME WE'RE SPENDING JUST RESPONDING TO PRAS. 
          AND I KNOW SOME OF 'EM ARE PRETTY SWEEPING AND IT'S, UM, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, IT'S NOT COOL , IT TAKES, UH, TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT TO AN EXCESS LEVEL. 
          I MEAN, IT'S JUST, HE IS BURDEN, BURDEN FOR, FOR THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC. 
          BUT NOTICE IT. 
          ANYBODY WANNA WEIGH IN ON S OKAY, NEXT ONE. 
          I HAVE, LISTEN, THERE IS THE, THE SAFE TEAM AND, UM, 
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YOU KNOW, AS, AS THE MEASURE O REPRESENTATIVE, UM, UM, I, ON THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, I, I KNOW THEY ARE TEEING UP FOR ANOTHER CYCLE, BUT YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT IS THAT THEY SAY THEY HAVE A YEAR AND A HALF OF FUNDING FOR THREE YEARS TILL THEY'RE, THEY GET REASSIGNED FUNDING. 
          SO YEAH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REAL PROBLEM THERE. 
          WE HAVE TO DECIDE IS SAFE WHAT WE DO WITH THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE FACED WITH THE ANIMAL SERVICES MILLION DOLLAR INCREASE, WE'RE FACED WITH THIS OTHER AREA. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT COMES BACK TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          WE HAVE TO HAVE, THE COSTS ARE GOING FOR UP FOR WHAT THE PUBLIC IS DEMANDING AS A SERVICE IN THIS COMMUNITY. 
          ANYONE WENT AWAY IN ON SAFE BEFORE WE, UM, YES, THERE WE GO. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, NOW, WELL, TO GO ALONG WITH MR. MAYOR OVER HERE WHEN HIS PARTNERSHIP IDEA, I THINK OUR PARTNERS WOULD BE HEALTHY. 
          PETALUMA, AND I KNOW THE CITY MANAGER AND I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS ON THIS, LOOKING AHEAD, WE MIGHT HAVE TO LOOK AT THOSE OTHER CITY COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND GROVEL A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR FEDERAL GRANT MONEY IS NOT AVAILABLE, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND CITY MANAGER IF YOU NEED ONE OF US TO, OR THE MAYOR AND I  TO GO ASK FOR A PARTNERSHIP. 
          SO FOR THE FIRST, I WOULD SAY THREE YEARS ON SAVE TWO AND A HALF YEARS, WE, WE HELPED RAISE FUNDS, HEALTHY PETALUMA, PROVIDENCE, FEDERAL GRANT, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT ELSE, BUT WE HAD THE ALPHABET SOUP OF GRANTS. 
          SO WE WOULD CONTINUE. 
          AND THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR FOCUS FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH COUNTY. 
          UM, GO AHEAD. 
          YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          WE, WE, UH, INITIALLY WITH SEED FUNDING FROM THE CITY AND THEN THROUGH GRANT FUNDING, THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EXPANSION OF THE PROGRAM THROUGH COUNTY HEAP PROGRAM FUNDING, UM, UH, HEALTHY PETALUMA PROVIDENCE FUNDING, WE WERE SELF-SUFFICIENT. 
          AND THEN WHEN MEASURE O FUNDING BECAME AVAILABLE, WE HAD PARTIAL FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAM AND WENT INTO FULL FUNDING IN A SUBSEQUENT YEAR AND THEN HAVE RELIED ON SUBSEQUENT FUNDING AS WE HEARD THAT, UH, OTHER MUNICIPALITIES WERE RECEIVING NOT ONLY FUNDING FOR FULL FUNDING, THEY WERE RECEIVING SUBSTANTIAL IN KIND SUPPORT FROM THE COUNTY. 
          UH, AND THE WAY OF CLINICIAN SUPPORTS THAT WERE EMBEDDED IN THE TEAM, THAT WE WERE NOT RECEIVING THAT SAME, UM, TYPE OF SUPPORT. 
          SO, UM, WE'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE TYPE OF COMMITMENTS. 
          WE'RE HAVING THOSE DISCUSSION, LIKE THE CITY MANAGER, UM, INDICATED WE JUST, UH, COMMUNICATED BACK SOME OF THE, THE REQUESTS FROM OUR, OUR COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS THAT REPRESENT THE ENTIRE SOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL, UM, SAFE PROGRAM TEAMS. WE'RE HOPING TO HEAR BACK ON ON THAT WORK. 
          UM, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO CONTINUING A SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM, WE'RE STILL SEEING ABOUT 5% OF, AT LEAST THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR SERVICE BEING DIVERTED INTO THE PROGRAM. 
          WE'VE SEEN REGIONALLY WHAT THE IMPACTS AND, AND THE NEED FOR MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSIONARY PROGRAMS ARE FROM SOME OF OUR ALLIED AGENCIES AND, AND, UH, RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN IT'S NOT THERE AND AVAILABLE, SOME OF THE IMPACTS THAT CAN TRAGICALLY COME FROM THOSE INTERACTIONS. 
          AND, UH, JUST TODAY WE HAD A CALL FOR SERVICE HERE IN THE PARKING LOT JUST OUTSIDE OF, UH, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS FOR ONE OF OUR INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT NEEDED SOME ASSISTANCE. 
          SO THE SAFE TEAM WAS THERE AND THEY'RE OPERATING AND HAVE BEEN CONTINUING TO OPERATE SINCE JULY OF 20 21, 24 7 IN THIS COMMUNITY. 
          AND WE'RE THE FIRST PROGRAM IN THIS COUNTY, SO WE HOPE THEY'RE HERE TO STAY IN PERPETUITY. 
          WE ARE, UM, WE'RE, UM, SUPER PLEASED THAT PETALUMA STOOD UP SAFE TEAM FIRST. 
          WHEN, WHEN IT STOOD UP. 
          I DON'T THINK MEASURE O HAD ACTUALLY GONE INTO SERVICE YET. 
          I MEAN, WE, WE STOOD UP THIS BECAUSE OF NEED RIGHT AWAY, AND SO WE FUNDED IT RIGHT AWAY AND WE FOUND WHERE, BUT THEN AS EACH REGION ALSO DID THE SAME THING, YOU REALIZE IT'S A REGIONAL SOLUTION. 
          IT'S NOT JUST A PETALUMA THING ANYMORE. 
          WE, WE SHOWED 'EM HOW, BUT, UM, BUT THEN, UM, IT SHOULD BE A REGIONAL TAX, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE MENTAL HEALTH BALLOT MEASURE LIKE THAT. 
          SO AS A REGIONAL SOLUTION, IT'S GOTTA BE, UM, REGIONAL FUNDING AND PARTNERSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP WORD OF THE DAY PARTNERSHIP. 
          UM, AND THEN, UM, UM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, AND COUNCILMAN BAR WHO BROUGHT UP THE INCLUSIONARY ORDINANCE. 
          UM, I, I LOVE THAT AS A DISCUSSION, UH, IN, IN, UH, IN OUR FEES MAYBE IS WHERE WE HIT IT FIRST. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE, UM, UH, DISCUSSIONS ON IMPACT FEES. 
          I MEAN, WE WILL HAVE DISCUSSIONS ON IMPACT FEES AND, UM, AND, AND WHICH OF THOSE IS, IS MOTIVATIONAL TO GETTING, I MEAN, IF WE'RE COMMITTED TO HOUSING, WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL THESE THINGS ON THE TABLE. 
          UM, AND SO I'M, I'M, I'M OKAY WITH A CONVERSATION AT THE FEE WHEN WE DO FEES, WHAT, WHAT IS THE MOMENT OF FEE DISCUSSION? SO WE ARE, AS PART OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, WE 
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WOULD HAVE TO CONSIDER AN ADOPTION OF NEW FEES. 
          THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL STATE, UM, REQUIREMENTS, ET CETERA. 
          AND SO WE DO HAVE, UH, TEAM MEMBERS THAT ARE, UM, ACTIVELY GOING THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS TO DOVETAIL THAT CONVERSATION. 
          I WILL JUST MENTION. 
          SO I'D LOVE THE, UM, THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT. 
          UM, AND I DO THINK IT'S GROUNDED IN SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT, UM, DEVELOPERS ARE, UM, REACTING TO. 
          UM, AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, AT, AT ITS BASIC FORM, IT'S A SUBSIDY. 
          UM, AND SO I THINK THERE'S A GOOD CONVERSATION TO BE HAD THAT TOUCHES ON FEES. 
          SO WE HAVE OUR, UM, UH, FEE REDUCTION AS OUR FIRST FORAY INTO THIS. 
          UM, BUT AS COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE CAN ATTEST TO, WE HAVE KICKED OFF WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AN UPDATE TO THE ZONING CODE. 
          AND SO I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR US TO LOOK AT. 
          UM, I THINK THE BIG QUESTION IS HOW DO WE INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY OF HOUSING? UM, 'CAUSE THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVERS. 
          I JUST JOTTED DOWN A FEW THINGS, UM, BY HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT 15%. 
          SO WHAT INCLUSIONARY ZONING IS REFERRING TO IS WE HAVE A REQUIREMENT, 15% OF NEW, UM, CONSTRUCTION TO HAVE AN INCLUSIONARY. 
          SO THAT'S A DEED RESTRICTED. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHERE, UM, WE ARE ABLE TO SEE SOME PRODUCTION OF BOTH RENTAL AND FOR SALE, UM, DEED RESTRICTED QUOTE UNQUOTE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S ALSO WHERE WE GET OUR IN LIE. 
          AND SO WE HAVE AN IN LIE FUNDING, UM, HOT THAT DEVELOPERS CAN OPT TO ESSENTIALLY PAY A FEE RATHER THAN DO THE 15%. 
          AND SO THAT'S A FEE, THAT'S A FUNDING ALLOCATION, WHICH IS, UM, DIMINISHING, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT ALSO GOES TO SUPPORTING OUR HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          AND SO THERE'S SOME IMPACTS THAT WE'D WANNA WEIGH. 
          UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, STATE FUNDING, UM, WE SEE THE SUBSIDIES STARTING TO GO DOWN ON THE A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          AND SO ALL OF THIS HAS CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 
          UM, IT'S A GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE. 
          UM, STATE DENSITY BONUS LAW, UM, DEFINITELY ENCOURAGES, ENCOURAGES US TO START THINKING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE, UM, BY GIVING, LET'S SAY THE 15% INCLUSIONARY WERE ALREADY, UM, BASICALLY ACTIVATING PARTS OF THE STATE DENSITY BONUS LAW, UM, JUST BY HAVING THAT 15%. 
          SO I, AGAIN, REALLY COMPREHENSIVE CONVERSATION TO BE HAD ULTIMATELY ABOUT HOUSING PRODUCTION. 
          UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THINK THE DISCUSSION, WARREN, I I WILL PROBABLY BE COMING AT THAT FROM, UM, MORE AN EQUITY SIDE, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE THAT OUR NONPROFIT HOUSING, IT PROVIDES, UH, HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WITH 50% LESS OR LESS A MI. 
          SO THE VERY POOR AND VERY LOW INCOME. 
          AND, UM, THERE'S NOTHING BEEN DONE IN THE 60 TO 80 RANGE. 
          AND, AND, UH, WHAT WE DO WITH OUR INCLUSION ORDINANCE HELPS THAT MISSING MIDDLE, UH, HAVE IT HAVE IT. 
          AND SO THERE'S, IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT DISCUSSION. 
          CAN I JUST, UH, ADD TO THAT, UM, IT, IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT IT BOTH FROM A ZONING CODE AND FROM A FEE, BECAUSE OUR INCLUSIONARY FEE RIGHT NOW IS VERY, VERY LOW BECAUSE THE REGULATIONS IN THE ZONING CODE REQUIRE TO BE ON SITE. 
          SO WE DON'T OFTEN USE THE FEE. 
          SO THE FEE, UM, IS VERY, VERY LOW. 
          SO I THINK IT'S KIND OF, TO BRIAN'S POINT, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE A CONVERSATION OF A LOT OF THOSE DIFFERENT LEVERS, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PICK IT UP AND TALK ABOUT IT AS PART OF DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          UM, AND ALONG WITH THE FEE DISCUSSION, STATE REQUIREMENTS TO START DOING HOUSING, UM, FEES, UH, DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES FOR RESIDENTIAL BASED ON SQUARE FOOTAGE AS OPPOSED TO UNITS. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF THOSE LEVERS THAT WE'LL, WE'LL START TALKING ABOUT AND LOOKING AT BOTH AS PART OF OUR ZONING CODE UPDATE, BUT ALSO OUR FEE UPDATES. 
          UH, THE PARKING ORDINANCE, UH, WAS NEXT ON, UH, THAT LIST WE'RE CHECKING OFF. 
          YES. 
          UH, SINCE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOUSING, I'D LOVE TO CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION FOR A MOMENT IF WE COULD PLEASE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOUSING, CERTAINLY, UM, I AM A HUGE PROPONENT THAT IT, YOU KNOW, MAINTAINS THAT, THAT IT'S STILL ON, ON, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR TOP PRIORITIES. 
          UM, BUT I THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SORT OF THE, UM, PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS OF OUR URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY. 
          THERE'S REALLY, UM, NOT A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR LARGE DEVELOPMENT 
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PROJECTS. 
          AND THERE I SEE OPPORTUNITY, UH, THROUGHOUT, UM, ALL OVER TOWN FOR, UH, SMALL PROJECTS. 
          AND I DON'T THINK, UM, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN DEVELOPING SMALL PROJECTS, INFILL PROJECTS, FINDING LOTS THAT WE CAN PUT, YOU KNOW, 2, 3, 4 UNITS ON, UM, UNLESS THE CITY DEVELOPS A STRATEGY TO TRY TO PROMOTE THAT. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY, JUST SAY, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THAT. 
          I'D ALSO ADD TO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, A FEW OF US WERE AT THE JC ROUNDTABLE, AND I'VE BEEN TO THE JC A FEW TIMES NOW, UH, RECENTLY, AND IT'S CLEAR THAT OUR, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, THE TRADE PROGRAM THAT THE JC HAS DEVELOPED HAS REALLY BECOME A CROWN JEWEL OF THE JC, LIKE THAT'S THE THING THAT GETS PROMOTED, RIGHT? AND YOU GO THROUGH THAT FACILITY AND IT'S QUITE AMAZING. 
          WELL, UM, WHAT IF OUR JC BUILT A HOME IN PETALUMA, LIKE WHAT OPPORTUNITY IS THERE? LIKE HOW CAN THE CITY BE A CATALYST TO WORK WITH THE JC TO, YOU KNOW, FIND A SMALL LOT AND BE A PARTNER, YOU KNOW, TO BUILDING SOMETHING? BECAUSE I THINK IF YOU BUILD ONE, WE MIGHT BUILD TWO AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. 
          AND SO I'D LOVE TO SEE, UM, SOME WORK IN THAT AREA AND COUNCIL MEMBER SCHREMS. OKAY. 
          TOPIC OF HOUSING, AGAIN, JUST A FOLLOW UP, UM, AGREEMENT, UM, AFTER BIDDING AT THE ROUND TABLE, BUT ALSO TWO OTHER, UH, SOURCES OF, UM, INFORMATION THAT I RECEIVED BASICALLY TO INCREASE HOUSING. 
          UM, WE HAVE THE GENERAL PLAN WITH, WITH THE LAND USES IN THERE, BUT WHAT'S MISSING IS THE MISSING MIDDLE, UH, THE MIDDLE HOUSING, THAT WAS WHAT WE NEEDED FOR THE NEW PA. 
          THE YOUNG FOLKS COMING UP NEEDS A PLACE TO START. 
          AND, UM, AND IT TURNS OUT IN ALL THREE SOURCES, UM, THEY ALL SAID IT'S THE FINANCING STRUCTURE BEHIND IT ALL. 
          AND THE CITY COULD HELP AS A PARTNER WITH THE BANKS. 
          AND THERE'S A WHOLE FINANCING IS FOR THE, FOR THE MARKET RATE. 
          THERE'S FINANCING FOR SUBSIDIZED, UM, HOUSING. 
          UH, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THAT TAKE CARE OF THAT, BUT THEIR MISSING MIDDLE IS CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR, OF BOTH OF THESE FINANCING STRUCTURES THAT'S AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET, IN THE, IN THE MONEY MARKET. 
          SO, UM, THEY SAID, YOU CAN DEAL WITH THIS LOCALLY IF WE, THAT THE CITY WORKS WITH THE LOCAL, UH, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS HERE, AND ALSO WITH THE LOCAL DEVELOPERS WHO ARE THE MIDDLE DEVELOPERS, NOT THE ONES THAT, UH, EITHER END, UM, AND MAYBE A WHOLE NEW SET OF YOUNGER, UH, ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPERS FOR THAT MISSING MIDDLE. 
          THE TWO, THE FOUR, THE 10 UP TO A 10, BUT THE TWO TO 10 AREA, UH, OF, OF UNITS PER PARCEL. 
          UM, THAT, THAT IS ACTUALLY THE, THE BEST THEY SAID AS A PERCENTAGE OF INCREASING OUR HOUSING, ESPECIALLY FOR, UM, THE YOUNG FAMILIES COMING UP. 
          THAT THAT IS THE NUM SHOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY OF, OF INCREASING HOUSING FOR, FOR ANY CITY RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A DIFFERENT CONCEPT THAN I'VE HEARD BEFORE. 
          IT IS, I THINK IT'S PUBLIC BANKING AND SOME OTHER THINGS. 
          YEAH, YOU'RE JUST, YOU'RE ON THIS, MIKE. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          I'LL JUST SAY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, WE HAVE, WE BROKE UP THE ZONING CODE UPDATE INTO LIKE FEW TRANCHES. 
          THE FIRST TRANCHE WAS LIKE CLEANUP, BASIC CLEANUP OF THE ZONING CODE AND, AND WHATNOT. 
          THE SECOND TRANCHE WAS SMALL LOT STRATEGIES. 
          SO LIKE, LITERALLY JUST LOOKING AT LIKE, WHAT IS OUR ZONING CODE DOING TO TRY AND PROMOTE SMALL LOT, UM, DEVELOPMENT. 
          SO THAT WILL, UM, I WOULD IMAGINE PROBABLY BE COMING FORWARD IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FOR A WORKSHOP AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND THEN, UM, ULTIMATELY COME INTO THE COUNCIL IN THE FALL. 
          SO WE DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THAT. 
          SO I THINK, AND, AND OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE BRAINSTORMING TONIGHT AND, AND, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH IDEAS, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA PASS THIS ALL BACK TO STAFF WHO'S GONNA FILTER AROUND AND, AND, UM, TAKE OUR BIG PICTURE THINGS AND PUT INTO SOMETHING THAT'S TRANSACTIONAL OR NON-TRANSACTIONAL AS THE CASE MAY BE. 
          SO, UM, UH, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TO KIND OF HAVE THAT CONVERSATION GOING ON? UM, BOTH ON, UM, SMALL SYSTEMS NEEDING INCENTIVES AND, AND ALSO FINANCING, UM, UH, PARTS THINGS. 
          AND PLEASE, UM, ON, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, QUINCE, THE JUNIOR COLLEGE DOES HAVE A WONDERFUL PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT THEY COULD PARTNER, MAYBE A PARTNER AGAIN WITH THE REBUILDING TOGETHER, WHO HAS THE SAME VISION FOR THEIR, UM, APPRENTICE WHO WANT TO BUILD LIKE TINY HOMES 
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OR ADUS. 
          AND ALSO WE HAVE A LOT OF EMPTY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT NEED TO BE REPAIRED SO THEY CAN GO BACK ON THE RENTAL MARKET OR BACK ON THE HOUSING MARKET. 
          SO REBUILDING TOGETHER IS A GREAT, IF WE COULD MAYBE PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM, UM, WITH THEIR VISION FOR THE FUTURE. 
          AND, UH, THEY ALSO, THEY ARE MENTIONING SOMETHING CALLED THE EMPTY HOME TAX, AND I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT WORKS, BUT I MENTIONED IT TO THE CITY MANAGER BECAUSE WE HAVE THESE EMPTY HOMES AND THESE EMPTY BUSINESSES, AND YOU CAN TAX THEM TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO TURN 'EM OVER INTO THE MARKET AND ENCOURAGE NEW BUSINESSES TO COME IN OR GET THOSE HOMES BACK ON THE MARKET, EITHER IN THE RENTAL MARKET OR THE HOUSING MARKET, AND SOME OF OUR TINY OR OUR LITTLE SINGLE FAMILY HOME LOTS. 
          THERE'S ONE RIGHT ON MCDOWELL, RIGHT BETWEEN CAULFIELD AND BAYWOOD, AND YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE BUILDING A NEW HOUSE. 
          THEY'RE RETROFITTING THE OLDER HOME THAT WAS THERE, AND IT'S AN OLD FARMHOUSE. 
          SO ON THE, UH, EMPTY HOUSING THING, ARE YOU HEARING, UM, OUTSIDE LEGISLATION, ARE YOU SUGGESTING A CITY LEGISLATION ON THEN? OH, RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST IN THE CONVERSATION STAGE WITH REBUILDING TOGETHER, AND I'M NOT SURE, UM, IT WAS JUST AN INFORMATION THAT I RECEIVED AND I AM LOOKING INTO IT, AND SO I, I KIND OF THREW THE BALL AT THE CITY MANAGER TO SEE IF SHE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND IF THERE WAS A TAX INCENTIVE FOR SOME OF THESE EMPTY BUSINESSES NOT TO GET FILLED, BECAUSE THERE'S QUITE A FEW EMPTY BUSINESSES THAT AREN'T RENTING OUT, AND THEY'RE EMPTY AND THEY'RE ALIGHT TO WHERE OUR SHOPPING CENTERS. 
          SO IF THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? AND IF IT NEEDS TO GO TO THE STATE LEGISLATORS, THEN THAT'S THE DIRECTION. 
          BUT MAYBE BRANDO HAS MORE INFORMATION. 
          I CAN, I CAN TAKE A SHOT AT IT. 
          YES. 
          UM, WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT THIS. 
          IT'S THE THREE-LEGGED STOOL, IT'S THE CITY, IT'S A BUSINESS, UM, AND IT'S A PROPERTY OWNER. 
          AND SO PART OF WHAT WE'RE ENDEAVORING FOR THIS YEAR WITH A MORE ROBUST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM INTEGRATED WITHIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UM, IS TO START HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, AND SO WE ALWAYS LIKE TO TAKE THE, UM, CARROT APPROACH, RIGHT? HOW DO WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO, UM, UH, REINVEST IN OUR COMMUNITY? UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I I WOULD WANNA LOOK AT THE NUMBERS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO SEE IF THERE REALLY IS A VACANCY PROBLEM. 
          UM, YOU SEE THINGS LIKE, UH, VANCOUVER, UM, I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE SORT OF EXAMPLES OF, UM, EMPLOYING A VACANCY, UH, TAX OR SOMETHING TO THAT LEVEL. 
          BUT I THINK I'D WANNA LOOK A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AT, UM, IS THIS REALLY A PROBLEM? ARE WE, YOU KNOW, HOW TO SOLVE IT? UM, AND THEN COME BACK WITH SOME, WITH SOME STRATEGIES. 
          UM, I THINK THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF REALLY GREAT IDEAS AND CONVERSATION AND DIALOGUE. 
          I THINK WHAT IT POINTS TO IS, UM, AGAIN, A CLEAR COUNCIL MANDATE DEMAND, UM, TO CREATE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND BY DOING, ONE WAY TO DO THAT IS TO, UM, INCREASE OUR HOUSING PRODUCTION, MAKE IT MORE DIVERSE. 
          SO ALL THE THINGS THAT HEATHER MENTIONED, ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, I DO THINK IT'S ALL GONNA COME, UM, TO AHEAD. 
          I MEAN, UH, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN TOWN. 
          UM, I, UH, IT'S SOMETHING I, I CAN'T TURN OFF WHEN I'M SITTING AT, AT A LIGHT, I LOOK AT A PARCEL AND I THINK ABOUT, OKAY, HOW DO WE TURN THIS THING INTO A SMALL LOT? UM, HOW DO WE OPEN UP THESE HOME OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES? UM, AND THAT COMMITMENT, UM, RESONATES THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT, THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UM, SO I KNOW THAT WE WILL COME UP WITH A, A REALLY ROBUST PLAN, UM, TO DO SO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, COUNCILMAN BARNICK ALSO BROUGHT UP A CLEANUP OF THE PARKING ORDINANCE, AND I'M, I'VE SEEN THAT ON OUR, UH, AGENDA FOR A WHILE. 
          I'D LOVE TO HAVE SOME ACTION THERE. 
          ANYONE WANT TO COMMENT ON MY HAND ON THAT? I'LL BE HAPPY TO. 
          I SUPPORT OUR POLICE CHIEF EVALUATING OUR EXISTING PARKING ORDINANCE AND UPDATING IT. 
          IT'S OLD, IT'S OUTDATED AND IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          AND I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER NOW WE'VE, WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT . 
          YEAH. 
          AND, UM, AND I THINK IT'S JUST TIME TO MOVE FORWARD ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND THEN, UM, AI POLICY, UM, DOES STAFF WANNA WEIGH IN ON, UH, HOW OUR TECHNOLOGY APPROACH IS GOING ON AND ARE WE, UH, UM, EMBRACING THE IMMINENT FUTURE  THAT WE CALL IT? AND WE'LL SAY 
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A LITTLE STAFF FIRST? COUNCIL MEMBER SCHREVE, DID YOU WANT TO, I'LL JUST GO FIRST. 
          UM, YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, I'M TRYING TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE AI, UM, DISCUSSIONS GOING ON NOW, BUT THE GOOD AND THE BAD, UM, AND LOTS HAPPENING ON BOTH ENDS, BUT IT TURNS OUT THE GOOD IF, IF, IF IT'S THERE, IT'S NOT GOING AWAY. 
          UM, IT CAN BE USED FOR GOOD IF MOVING FORWARD. 
          JUST TALKED TO THE, UH, SEVERAL FOLKS FROM THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY, UM, AND, UH, THEY'RE ALL USING IT TO, UM, TO MAKE, HELP THEM MAKE DECISIONS. 
          OTHER CITIES, I JUST CAME OUT OF A MEETING WITH, UH, SEVERAL OTHER MAYORS FROM ALL OVER THE US AND THEY WERE ALL SAYING, I GOTTA STEP UP AND USE IT AS A TOOL. 
          UM, AND, UH, SO ESPECIALLY LIKE REWRITING ORDINANCES AND, AND DESIGNING AND DO, IT'S, IT'S EXTREMELY MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK IT IS. 
          UM, AND, AND IT, UH, AND TO STEP UP AND USE IT, I'VE EVEN RECOMMENDED IT FOR, UM, THE, THE GENERAL PLAN THAT'S COMING TO US ONLINE. 
          I SUGGESTED AT THE GPAC THE OTHER NIGHT, OH, HOW ABOUT HAVING A AI SEARCH ENGINE SO PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT WHAT'S, WHAT'S REALLY THERE? 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA BE OVER A THOUSAND PAGES, SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO FIND STUFF. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE THERE'S ALL SORTS OF TOOLS WHERE IT CAN BE USED. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CATER, TOMS, I'VE BEEN IN, UH, MEETINGS WITH THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES ON THIS AND OTHER CITIES ARE GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. 
          AND SO I FEEL AS THOUGH OUR CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY WHO ARE PART OF THE LEAGUE, UM, CAN WORK WITH OTHER CITIES TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON, BECAUSE A FEW CITIES ARE GOING IN THAT DIRECTION, BUT ALL CITIES WANNA GO THERE. 
          AND, UH, I WOULD JUST SAY, UM, A YEAR AGO, THE CITY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CITIES TO A ADOPT, UM, UH, AN AI PLATFORM THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY USING. 
          IT'S CALLED PROPHECY AI. 
          UM, IT'S OUT OF A, A FORMER STANFORD GRAD. 
          AND HE CREATED THIS, THIS PROGRAM THAT IS, THAT WE'RE STARTING TO USE FOR OUR STAFF WRITING, FOR OUR RESEARCH, FOR A LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE, UM, INTEGRATED INTO OUR INTER GOV AND OUR PERMITTING SYSTEM. 
          SO WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT AS THAT NEXT STEP. 
          SO WE ARE PUTTING OUR TOE IN THE WATER. 
          OKAY, GOOD. 
          AND, UH, THAT GOT US CURRENT WITH THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN COMMENTED SO FAR ON. 
          IS THERE A NEXT COMMENTER DO YOU HAVE ONE YOU WANNA ADD? I'VE GOT A COUPLE. 
          I'VE GOT JUST A COUPLE MORE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UH, DESIGN BUILD. 
          WE, I, I JUST, WHEN I SEE THAT WE'RE STILL PAYING FOR ENERGY AUDITS AND WE'RE NOT DOING DESIGN BUILD ON OUR ENERGY PROJECTS, BUT IT FEELS LIKE A HUGE MISS TO ME. 
          UM, WHEN I LOOK, WE MANAGE TO DO DESIGN BUILD FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY. 
          UM, OUR SKATE PARK IS, COULD BE, COULD HAVE BEEN DONE PROBABLY TWO YEARS SOONER IF WE WERE ELIGIBLE TO DO DESIGN BUILD. 
          LIKE WHAT DO WE HAVE, WHAT'S THE PATHWAY TO ALLOWING US TO DO THAT? BECAUSE I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT PART OF THE REASON WHY SOME OF OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS SLIP IS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE LIKE THE INDUSTRY STANDARD PROCUREMENT TOOL THAT EVERY OTHER CITY HAS. 
          SO, COUPLE THINGS. 
          UM, THANKS TO THE QUESTION, UM, WE ARE TO, TO DO TRADITIONAL STRAIGHT UP DESIGN BUILD, AWARDING A CONTRACT BY NEGOTIATION. 
          WITHOUT BIDDING, WE WOULD NEED TO MODIFY THE CHARTER BECAUSE IT HAS A LOWEST BIDDING REQUIREMENT. 
          UM, IN IT, IT RAISES THE BIDDING THRESHOLD TO LIKE 30,000 GENERALIZED CITIES. 
          STILL IT'S 5,000, BUT, AND THAT'S HELPFUL. 
          BUT, UM, BUT WE, WE, IT PRE PRE PREVENTS US FROM DOING TRADITIONAL DESIGN BUILD BY NEGOTIATION. 
          THE REASON, REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT IN DESIGN BUILD CONTRACTS IS, UM, WHEN AN AGENCY, UM, RETAINS A SINGLE CONTRACTOR FOR EVERYTHING, THE DESIGN, THE PERMITTING, THE CONSTRUCTION, YOU REALLY ARE PUTTING ALL YOUR EGGS IN THAT BASKET. 
          YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF FAITH THAT HAS TO BE REALLY RELIABLE CONTRACTOR AND A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM. 
          UM, UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO, UM, THE ISSUE OF, UM, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY TO DO DESIGN BUILD BECAUSE, UM, IT TAKES SOME SPECIAL, UM, PUBLIC WORK STAFF EXPERTISE TO, TO MANAGE IT. 
          UM, AND IT TAKES, UM, DIFFERENT DOCUMENT SETS TO IMPLEMENT IT. 
          WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY, I AM, I'M GONNA CALL, I'VE BEEN CALLING QUASI DESIGN BUILD AND IT'S PRETTY NICE. 
          WE DO A PREQUALIFICATION THAT WE HAVE, UM, AS A CHARTER CITY WE HAVE EVEN MORE CONTROL OVER THAN GENERALIZED CITIES. 
          AND SO THAT WAY WE SET UP A BASE, WE SOLICIT SUBMISSION OF QUALIFICATIONS. 
          WE SET UP A, UM, A QUALIFIED BID POOL THAT ARE THE ONLY BIDDERS HAVING ESTABLISHED THEIR QUALIFICATIONS, WHO CAN THEN BID ON THE DESIGN, BUILD, YOU KNOW, DESIGN AND 
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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. 
          SO WE SATISFY OUR BIDDING REQUIREMENT, BUT WE GET THE BENEFITS OF DESIGN BUILD. 
          AND SO OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM, UM, UM, UM, LED BY, UM, PAUL GAGAN WHO COMES TO US, WHO CAME TO US FROM PRIVATE INDUSTRY WITH DESIGN BUILD EXPERIENCE, UM, PLAYED A, A REALLY IMPORTANT ROLE ALONG WITH OUR, UM, CONSULTANT M FIVE TO, UM, AND WE DID A LOT OF WORK IN OUR OFFICE TO REALLY UPDATE OUR DOCUMENT SET. 
          SO NOW WE HAVE THAT SET SO THAT, SO WE CAN DO THAT. 
          WE COULD HAVE DONE THAT SAME THING IF WE HAD THAT EXPERTISE ALREADY IN PLACE IN THE FORM OF PAUL FOR THE SKATE PARK. 
          WE DIDN'T, BUT WE NOW, NOW WE DO. 
          SO, SO ONE WAY IS TO DO CHARTER UPDATE, BUT THE OTHER WAY IS TO, IS TO USE THE TOOLS WE'VE DEVELOPED AND THE EXPERTISE WE HAVE IN HOUSE NOW TO DO MORE OF THAT FOR PROJECTS THAT LEND THEMSELVES TO IT. 
          NOT ALL DO, BUT SOME, SOME WILL. 
          SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO UTILIZE THAT. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE, I THINK MY HUNCH IS THAT WE SHOULD, MY EXPERIENCE WITH DESIGN BUILD IS THAT IT GETS THINGS DONE MUCH FASTER. 
          AND A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO, LIKE, ESPECIALLY ON ENERGY PROJECTS THAT LIKE WE CAN DO THE ENERGY AUDIT, BUT THAT'S NOT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA GO BACK AND THEY'RE GONNA DO THEIR OWN ENERGY AUDIT AND THEN WE PAY FOR IT TWICE. 
          SO, UM, I LOVE TO HEAR THAT WHATEVER YOU WORKED OUT FOR THAT, FOR THAT FACILITY IS SCALABLE TO OTHER PROJECTS. 
          UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING IT USED TO THE EXTENT THAT IT MAKES SENSE. 
          UM, IT'S GONNA BE EXCITING, I THINK TO GET WITH THE, WITH THE REALLY STRONG STAFF THAT'S BEEN BEING DEVELOPED IN PUBLIC WORKS AND, AND EXPERTISE LIKE PAUL AND OTHERS BRING, IT'S GONNA BE NEAT, I THINK, UH, TO SEE, UH, WHAT ARE THOSE PROJECTS WHERE THEY WANT TO USE THOSE SAME TOOLS. 
          'CAUSE THEY THINK THEY'LL BE HELPFUL. 
          AND WE'LL BE TALKING MORE TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO, UM, LET'S, LET'S HAVE A MOMENT WEIGH AND, AND CAN I ASK MAYBE PUBLIC WORK STAFF, UM, IN THE, UH, PIPS PUMP STATION. 
          THAT SEEMS TO BE A NATURAL FOR THAT IF IT'S NOT ALREADY TOO FAR DOWN THE ROAD, BUT, COOL. 
          OR, UM, SINCE, SINCE YOU'RE UP, AND I KNOW YOU'RE WORKING THE CAPITAL BUDGET, UM, ANY OTHER PROJECT YOU WANNA NAME THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD BE THINKING? SURE. 
          SO I'LL, UH, STEVE OR, UM, ACTUALLY NOT IN PUBLIC RESEARCH UTILITIES, BUT I'LL SPEAK TO PIPS. 
          UM, WE'RE NOT PLANNING TO DESIGN BUILD FOR THAT PROJECT. 
          AND RIGHT NOW, , THANK YOU. 
          THE COMPONENTS OF THAT, UM, PUMP STATION BEAN DESIGNED AND BEING DECIDED ON IT WOULD BE, UH, TO ERIC'S POINT, PROBABLY A BAD PROJECT FOR DESIGN BUILD BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED SPECIFIED TO THE LEVEL THAT WOULD MINIMIZE THE CITY'S RISK TO GO INTO DESIGN BUILD ROUTE. 
          SO THAT ONE, RIGHT NOW WE'RE PLANNING TO DESIGN BID BUILD, UM, STARTING DESIGN PHASE AND GOING THROUGH TRADITIONAL BIDDING PROCUREMENT. 
          THANK YOU COUNSEL. 
          HAVE ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON THAT ONE? DID YOU WISH TO AWAY,  YOU MADE THE TRIP UP? SPEAK UP. 
          OKAY. 
          SIDE BILL. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY HAPPY THAT WE CAN, WORKING WITH, SORRY. 
          WE'RE REALLY HAPPY WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY TEAM TO DEVELOP, UH, NEW BID DOCUMENTS SO THAT WE CAN DO THAT. 
          'CAUSE SKATE PARK WAS ONE OF THE PROJECTS WE WOULD'VE PREFERRED TO DO DESIGN BUILD ON. 
          SO IT'S NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL TYPE OF, UM, PROCUREMENT METHOD. 
          IT, WE LOSE A LOT OF CONTROL. 
          SO CERTAIN TYPES OF PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY LIKE OUR, YOU KNOW, STREET UTILITY PROJECTS, WE WANT TO DO DESIGN BID BUILD 'CAUSE WE WANT TO HAVE THAT CONTROL AND BE ABLE TO MANIPULATE THOSE PROJECTS SO WE CAN FIT IN WITH THE DIFFERENT GOALS WE HAVE. 
          BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN TYPES OF PROJECTS THAT MAY NOT BE OUR EXPERTISE WHERE WE WOULD LOOK TOWARDS THAT DESIGN BUILD MODEL. 
          ONE OF THE OTHER CHALLENGING AND PIECES OF THAT IS FOR, UH, DESIGN BUILD. 
          WE REALLY WANT TO DEVELOP A REALLY ROBUST, UM, BASIS OF DESIGN. 
          AND SO THAT TAKES A LOT OF TIME. 
          WE ACTUALLY ALMOST CREATED, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, DON'T WANNA SAY IT LIKE THAT, BUT THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE PUT IN PLACE FOR THE PETALUMA PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY ARE VERY ROBUST. 
          SO IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO GET THOSE DOCUMENTS AND IN, IN SOME CASES THOSE PROJECTS ARE JUST BETTER OFF TO BE FINISHED, YOU KNOW, IN THE DESIGN BID BUILD PIECE. 
          SO JUST WANT TO THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, LET'S SEE. 
          WHERE ARE WE NOW? NEXT I THINK WE'RE MOVING TO COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. 
          WELL, THAT KIND OF SEGUES INTO THE NEED FOR A CHARTER UPDATE, WHICH IS PROBABLY NEEDED TO BE DONE A LONG TIME AGO. 
          AND JUST WANNA BRING THAT UP AND THE META BENEFITS OF IT AND THE TIME THAT IT WOULD TAKE. 
          I KNOW IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A 300 AND SOME ODD PAGE CHARTER AND SAN JOSE HAS ONE THAT'S ABOUT 40 PAGES WHEN THEY REDID THEIRS. 
          AND SO, SO THIS HAS BEEN, UM, THIS HAS BEEN ON THE LIST, YOU KNOW, SINCE WE ALL GOT STARTED HERE. 
          AND, UM, UM, THE, THE 
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QUESTION IS, IS THIS THE RIGHT YEAR TO DO THAT? UM, WELL IT, IT, IT WILL BE A GOOD THING TO DO AND I, I VIEW IT AS PART OF THE PLUMAS SORT OF MATURATION INTO THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, GENERATION OF THE CITY'S POTENTIAL AND WHAT'S AHEAD. 
          UM, AND IT'S TRUE THAT MODERN DOC, UH, CHARTERS ARE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE, CHARTERS ARE DOCUMENTS OF LIMITATION, THEIR VOTER IMPOSED LIMITS ON THE COUNCIL'S AUTHORITY. 
          MODERN CHARTERS ARE SHORTER RATHER THAN LONGER 'CAUSE THEY INCLUDE LESS LIMITS 'CAUSE THEY, UM, ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE FOR MORE INNOVATION. 
          TRANSPARENCY STILL CONTINUES TO BE VERY IMPORTANT, BUT SO DOES INNOVATION AND FLEXIBILITY. 
          UM, IT'S PROBABLY AT LEAST AN 18 MONTH PROCESS, IF NOT A TWO YEAR PROCESS TO DO A FULL CHARTER UPDATE. 
          YOU KNOW, MY RECOMMENDATION HAS BEEN WOULD BE THAT WE DO A, A NEW CHARTER, UM, AND, AND THERE'S PROBABLY SOME GOOD FEATURES TO KEEP IN OUR OLD CHATTER CHARTER, BUT LOTS OF, LOTS OF INNOVATIONS TO MAKE. 
          UM, I WOULD GUESS THIS IS NOT THE YEAR BECAUSE THIS IS, UH, WHAT'S GONNA OCCUPY MOST OF, MOST OF OUR FOCUS IS GONNA BE GENERAL PLAN, GENERAL PLAN, A IR ZONING AMENDMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FEES BASED ON THOSE THINGS. 
          ALL THOSE THINGS HAPPENING IN PARALLEL, SUPER IMPORTANT THINGS. 
          AND YOU KNOW, I, I'D LOVE IT IF THE CHARTER, IF A CHARTER UPDATE FOLLOWED CLOSE ON THE HEELS TO THEM. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S BASICALLY A CAMPAIGN PROCESS AND THEY, AND THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT. 
          THE COUNCIL CAN, CAN, UM, DRIVE IT, UM, WHICH MAY BE THE BEST WAY FOR THAT KIND OF CHANGE. 
          SO IT WOULD BE GREAT TO DO THAT. 
          AND WE WE'RE KEEPING LISTS OF WHAT WE'D RECOMMEND BE A PART OF IT OR BE ELIMINATED FROM THE CHARTER. 
          UM, SO WHEN IT, WHEN IT'S TIME, WE'LL BE, BE GLAD TO PARTNER ON THAT WITH THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY. 
          OKAY, I HEAR THAT. 
          UM, SO, AND, AND JUST FOR CLARITY TO THE AUDIENCE, WHICH LIKE THAT WAS MOSTLY STAFF, UM, SO, UH, YOU'RE SAYING THAT'S A PUBLIC PROCESS, RIGHT? WE'D GO OUT AND SO LIKE ANY OTHER OF OUR PLANNING DOC, WE'D BE ON COMMUNICATION ON THAT FOR THE, THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE TWO YEAR PLAN. 
          THERE'S PRESCRIBED PUBLIC HEARINGS AND INTERVALS BETWEEN THEM. 
          AND, UM, BUT I'M ALSO WEIGHING IN WHEN WE HAVE SATURATION OF, OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION, YOU KNOW, THERE'S TOO MUCH OF THAT, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC TO REALLY UNDERSTAND AND THAT, THAT WOULD BE ONE OF MY WORRIES IS LIKE OVERWHELMING IN THAT RIGHT PROCESS AND GETTING IT PAST THE GENERAL PLAN WILL BE GREAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          YEAH, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY RIGHT. 
          SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. 
          JUST AS LONG AS WE ACTUALLY COMMIT TO DOING THAT. 
          AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. 
          UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS WHEN BRIAN O WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE HOUSING AND THE, UM, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TALKING TO PROPERTY OWNERS THAT HAVE VACANT BUILDINGS AND BLIGHT IN OUR DOWNTOWN? UM, I, SO IN AROUND OUR DOWNTOWN, NOT JUST SPECIFICALLY, I DO THINK THERE'S A FOCUS ON DOWNTOWN JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF PARTNERSHIPS THERE. 
          UM, IT'S THE MOST VISIBLE, IT'S WHAT WE HEAR MOST OFTEN. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY THAT WOULD CUT CITYWIDE. 
          UM, BUT I DO THINK THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITY AS WE START THINKING ABOUT, UM, DOWNTOWN BEAUTIFICATION. 
          AND, UM, YOU WE'RE JUST STARTING TO SEE THE DEMAND. 
          WE'RE STARTING TO SEE SOME RETENANTING. 
          UM, THE IDEA THEN IS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE SUPPORT SORT OF THE THE FINAL HANDFUL, UM, TO GET TO THE NEXT STEP. 
          SO IS THAT A COUNCIL GOAL AND PRIORITY OR IS THAT THE DIRECTION YOU'RE GOING? I MEAN, ARE WE GOING IN THAT DIRECTION NOW? SO WE WILL BE. 
          SO, UM, NOT ONLY DID I TOUCH ON IT, UH, BRIAN COCHRANE, OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, TOUCHED ON IT AS WELL. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UM, A A VERY ROUGH SKETCH, WHICH IS REALLY BUILT OFF OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK THAT THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY HAS WEIGHED ON. 
          UM, AND SO OUR PLAN IS TO COME BACK LATER THIS YEAR FOR A WORKSHOP, UM, TO REALLY DIVE INTO THAT. 
          'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT TO COVER. 
          ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR EVERYBODY. 
          UM, SO I THINK IT'LL BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO WRITE THE SHIP AS COUNCIL, UM, WITH A WELL PREPARED AND DEVELOPED, UM, STRATEGY. 
          AND IF ONE OF THOSE KEY GOALS IS, UH, A FOCUS ON, UM, SORT OF LONG VACANT, UM, RETAIL DOWNTOWN, UM, WE CAN LOOK AT THAT AS A STRATEGY. 
          AND ARE WE GOING TO, AT THE SAME TIME LOOK AT NOT NECESSARILY A VACANCY TAX OR SOMETHING THAT, A TOOL THAT WE CAN USE WILL THE CITY BE EVALUATING? WE'LL, WE'LL BE DOING A DEEP DIVE IN THAT, IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. 
          AND IF THAT'S, UH, A PLACE TO GO, UM, AND THAT'S WHERE THE FOCUS IS. 
          UM, WE CAN GO THERE. 
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OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UM, I'M JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT THE CHAIN LINK FENCES. 
          WE HAVE THE SEVEN 11 THAT HAS THE CHAIN LINK FENCE, FOURTH AND C HAS A CHAIN LINK FENCE AND IT'S BLIGHTED. 
          AND DO WE DO AN ORDINANCE? WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE CHAIN LINK FENCES? I MEAN, THEY CAN, THEY CAN STAY UP FOR YEARS OR DO WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE THAT SAYS THERE'S A TIMEFRAME IF YOU'RE NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT? YEAH, SO THE INTENT OF USING A CHAIN LINK FENCE IS REALLY TO, UH, IS PREVENTATIVE, RIGHT? THERE'S AN ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION SITE. 
          UH, WE WANT TO, UH, CREATE A, A BARRIER FOR, UH, THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          UM, AND SO YOU'VE NAMED A COUPLE, UM, WE'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, THAT OWN, UM, NOT ONLY THE BUILDINGS AND UM, PROPERTIES THAT YOU MENTIONED, UM, BUT THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A HANDFUL THAT I HEAR EVERY DAY, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH OUR INSPECTION TEAM, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          UM, I DON'T, SO AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW IF THE FOCUS SHOULD BE JUST ON, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE ABSOLVE OURSELVES OF CHAIN LINK FENCES? UM, I WOULD WANNA REALLY FOCUS ON THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM. 
          UM, AND PART OF IT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, IS THERE INTEREST, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE NEW PERSPECTIVE BUSINESSES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THOSE SITES, UM, SEAMLESSLY THROUGH, UM, THE PERMIT PROCESS. 
          AND I, I SEE OUR ECON DEV TEAM IS HERE, AND SO WE HAVE BEEN HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WHEN A NEW BUSINESS WANTS TO GO INTO FOURTH AND SEE, UM, AND JUST BEING REALLY CLEAR ON WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS ARE AND WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE. 
          UM, AND SO WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT. 
          I'VE BEEN HAVING DIRECT CONVERSATIONS. 
          UM, THEY SORT OF GET PICKED UP AND, AND SAT DOWN. 
          UM, I THINK EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE A, A VIBRANT, PRODUCTIVE DOWNTOWN. 
          AND, UM, AND I KNOW WE'LL GET THERE SINCE THERE'S NO DEVELOPMENT BEING DONE ON THE TWO I TALKED ABOUT WHY ARE THE CHAIN LINK FENCES ALLOWED TO BE UP? SO IT'S, IT'S A BIT OF A, IT'S A JUDGMENT CALL. 
          YOU TAKE THE CHAIN LINK FENCES DOWN, IT OPENS UP THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, GRAFFITI AND ET CETERA. 
          UM, AT THIS POINT, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE HAVING A GOOD CONVERSATION, UM, WITH, UH, THE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, THE SEVEN 11, I THINK YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE WALNUT GRILL, UM, WHICH IS NO, I'M REFERRING TO ON HOWARD STREET. 
          HOWARD STREET IN WASHINGTON. 
          OKAY. 
          YES. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, THAT'S, I MEAN, DIFFERENT SEVEN 11. 
          YEAH, I MEAN IT'S, I MEAN, YEAH, ALL THE, YOU KNOW, THE PALM TREES ARE JUST DROPPING ON THE INSIDE. 
          IT'S FILTHY. 
          SO IT'S AN EYESORE. 
          SO WE DO HAVE A PERSPECTIVE, UM, ESSENTIALLY IT'S, UM, IT GOES BACK AND FORTH. 
          THE PROPERTY OWNER, WE, WE HAVE BEEN HAVING REG, UM, REGULAR ENGAGEMENT, UM, BUT IT COULD BE EITHER A RE-TENANT OF A SEVEN 11 UNDER A DIFFERENT OWNERSHIP OR JUST A, A MORE LOCAL, UM, MOM AND POP MINIMART TYPE OF, UM, OUTFIT. 
          UM, AND SO THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE ONGOING. 
          UM, IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A JUDGMENT CALL AND IF WE WANT TO, TO SAY, HEY, YOU'RE NOT HAVING A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO ACTIVE SITE HERE. 
          THERE'S NO NEED FOR, UM, CHAIN LINK FENCES, BUT THEN YOU'RE, WE'RE ALSO THEN OPENING IT UP TO OTHER THINGS. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A BALANCE. 
          AND, UM, I UNDERSTAND THE FRUSTRATION. 
          UM, AGAIN, THIS IS THE STUFF THAT WE GET AT THE COUNTER, ALL THE QUESTIONS, A LOT OF REALLY GREAT IDEAS ON WHAT, UM, THOSE SITES CAN BE. 
          UM, AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT'S REALLY CRITICAL THIS YEAR IS TO REALLY START HAVING OPEN UP THOSE DIALOGUES, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY BUILD THAT ROBUST ROLODEX, UM, AND THOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE RAPPORT WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, SO WE GET TO SEE, UM, SO I, I COULD, I THINK IT'S VALUABLE INFORMATION, BUT THIS IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO LEADING THE WORKSHOP AT THIS MOMENT, . 
          AND SO, UM, I, I THINK THE QUESTION IS DOES COUNCIL WANT TO, UH, SET SOME EXPECTATION ON THAT OR HEAR FROM AND, AND YOU SAY YOU, YOU HAVE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP, UM, IN THE CARDS AND, AND YES. 
          AND THIS COULD BE PART AND PARCEL TO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I'D LIKE TO JUST HAVE UPDATES ALSO BECAUSE PEOPLE COMMENT AND I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER. 
          SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE UPDATES AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WORK INTO THE WORKSHOP, GO IN THAT DIRECTION. 
          OKAY. 
          BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT OUR ECONOMICS, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO ACTUALLY BRINGING ECONOMIC VITALITY INTO OUR TOWN AND NOT JUST CONTINUE HAVING 
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VACANT BUILDINGS THAT ARE PROMINENT BUILDINGS. 
          THE PROJECT ENGINEERING ME HAS TO ASK, WHAT'S THE TIMELINE? WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT WORKSHOP BALLPARKY? UM, WELL, WE JUST ONBOARDED, I WOULD SAY SOMEWHERE IN THE SUMMER SORT OF FRAME OUT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE JUST ONBOARDED OUR, OUR NEW MANAGER. 
          AND, UM, SO NEXT WEEK, , WE, WE DO HAVE A CONSULTANT, UM, THAT HAS BEEN, UH, THINKING THROUGH DIFFERENT STRATEGIES, HAS INTERVIEWED, UM, PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, WHETHER IT'S BROKERS, PROPERTY OWNERS, UM, AND SO I DO THINK WE'RE, WE'RE READY FOR A PRETTY ROBUST CONVERSATION. 
          THANKS, COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          NOW, UM, ON TO, UM, CATER THOMPSON'S, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON'S, UM, CHAIN LINK FENCES ACROSS FROM WALNUT PARK D STREET IN PALOMA BOULEVARD. 
          YOU SENT US AN EMAIL A WHILE BACK, AND I JUST RECENTLY HAD TO REFER TO IT BECAUSE A COMMUNITY MEMBER ASKED ME ABOUT IT. 
          AND THE, THE CHAINING FENCE, IT GETS SO MUCH SIGNAGE, UM MM-HMM . 
          IS JUST ALWAYS FILLED WITH COMMERCIAL THINGS THAT DON'T RELATE TO THAT PARCEL, BUT IT WAS JUST A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP. 
          WHERE ARE THEY IN THAT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS? DO THEY HAVE TO CLEAN IT UP? DO THEY SUBMIT AN APPLICATION? WHERE ARE THEY IN THAT PROCESS? AND, AND, AND AGAIN, AS THIS IS GETTING DETAILY, CAN YOU MAKE THAT, MAYBE IT COULD BE IN THE UPDATE THAT COUNCILMAN MARTA THOMPSON ASKED FOR COULD, BECAUSE THAT'S ANOTHER CHAIN LINK FENCE AREA, BUT I DON'T REALLY NEED THAT INFORMATION RIGHT THIS MOMENT. 
          BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DID I SEE A HAND DOWN HERE? COUNCIL MEMBER QUINT? YEAH. 
          SINCE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANNA, UM, EXPRESS IS THAT, UH, IN THE LITERATURE THAT I'VE READ, OUR RETAIL VACANCY RATES IN PETALUMA ARE PRETTY MUCH ON PAR WITH SONOMA COUNTY AND SANTA ROSA. 
          UH, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE, UH, WE LAG, WE'RE, WE'RE IN OFFICE SPACE. 
          OUR VACANCY RATES ARE MUCH WORSE THAN SANTA ROSA, UM, AND SONOMA COUNTY. 
          BUT INDUSTRIAL, WE ARE THE WORST IN THE COUNTY. 
          UM, AND WE'RE A REAL DRAG ON THE COUNTY. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, YOU KNOW, AS, AS I'M, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO HEAR YOU TALK ABOUT THE WORK THAT'S GOING INTO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, STRATEGY. 
          AND, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE WORKSHOP ON THAT. 
          AND I JUST ENCOURAGE, UM, THAT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOCUS IS REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT DOWNTOWN. 
          IT'S REALLY HOLISTIC. 
          AND BY THE WAY, I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, I AM REALLY, I'M SO EXCITED THAT THE KMART IS GETTING A FACELIFT AND THE WORK THAT THE, THE DEVELOPMENT AROUND THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE SIDEWALKS AND EVERYTHING IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. 
          AND, UM, AND SO I JUST WANNA SAY LET'S DO MORE OF THAT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          JUST, JUST QUICKLY. 
          I'M REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THE KMART ALSO BECAUSE I STARTED TAKING PICTURES IN 2014 ON THAT SIDEWALK. 
          BUT WHAT'S REALLY GREAT IS NOW THERE'S GONNA BE A FOUR-WAY CROSSING GOING INTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER, SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO WALK ACROSS A WEIRD DRIVEWAY TO GO INTO THE COMMUNITY CENTER. 
          AND I JUST THANK YOU, GINA, FOR THAT. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN. 
          WHOEVER DID. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          COUNCILMAN REBS. 
          YEAH. 
          JUST CONTINUING THE TOPIC OF, OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, COUNCILMAN QUINT, UM, I GOING TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING, BUT HE BASICALLY SAID, UM, I HAVE THE OTHER TOPIC. 
          WE'LL EVENTUALLY GET TO THE, THE CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY, UM, WHICH IS MORE LONG TERM, BUT WE HAVE MAYBE MORE MIDTERM THAN LONG TERM NOW. 
          SO I'LL GET TO THAT LATER. 
          BUT JUST BEING BACK TO, WHICH IS TIED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA NEED THE MONEY IN ORDER TO DO ALL OF THE RESILIENCY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          SO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO BE UPPED IN PRIORITY, I THINK. 
          UM, AND IF YOU WANT TO BE, UM, JUST FROM A HIGH LEVEL LOOK AT IT LIKE A FRANGI DOES, IS THERE PROFIT? SO IF THERE'S GONNA BE A PROFIT IN IT, LET'S DO IT. 
          IF THERE'S NOT, LET'S NOT DO IT. 
          AND LET'S LOOK AT EVERYTHING WE'RE SAYING. 
          HEY, CLIMATE READY, EVERYTHING HAS A CLIMATE RESILIENCY COMPONENT. 
          NO. 
          EVERYTHING WE DO ALSO HAS TO HAVE AN ECONOMIC, WE ARE A BUSINESS MONEY COMING IN, MONEY COMING OUT. 
          WE HAVE A STOCK WITH, WITH, UH, ALL OUR STOCKHOLDERS IN CITY. 
          SO WE REALLY NEED TO, UM, LOOK AT US AS A BUSINESS. 
          AND IF, IF THE MARINA IS CAN'T PROVIDE US WITH INCOME, THEN DROP IT. 
          IF, UH, EVERYTHING THAT WAS DONE BY OUR FOREFATHERS, ALL THEY DID WAS, IT'S ALWAYS BASED ON 
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CAN THEY MAKE A PROFIT OFF OF IT THAT GOT BUILT. 
          SO THERE'S ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT, UM, A WHOLE CHANGE IN MAYBE, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF PHILOSOPHY AROUND THIS. 
          SO IN, IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AREA, GLAD WE HAVE SOMEONE NEW ON BOARD THAT'S GOING TO BE WORKING ON THIS, BUT ALL THESE LITTLE THING, EVEN RESTROOMS DOWNTOWN ARE AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT THAT'S GONNA BRING IN MORE. 
          'CAUSE TOURISM DOLLARS IS OUR FUTURE. 
          THAT'S WHERE OUR MONEY'S COMING FROM IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. 
          SO TO PROVIDE FOR TOURISM DOLLARS TO COME IN, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE THOSE RESTROOMS. WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET RID OF THE STOREFRONT, GET RID OF THE FENCING, AND WE HAVE TO DO IT SOONER THAN LATER. 
          NOT HAVE NICE CONVERSATIONS OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, NEXT WEEK, GO TALK TO THE ENEMIES, CARRIED A STICK. 
          HEY, WE LOVE YOU TO DO SOMETHING, BUT IF YOU DON'T DO IT BY THIS DATE, THE, THE STICK'S COMING AND IT'S GONNA BE A $10,000 FEE COMING AT YOU. 
          SO WHAT, LET'S, LET'S TALK SOME MORE, BE A LITTLE BIT MORE TRUMPISH IN THAT RESPECT. 
          BIT, A LITTLE MORE BARGAINING NEGOTIATION. 
          SO STRONGER THERE. 
          THEN, UM, WITH TOURISM, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, THIS, THE INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES, THE, THE AMOUNT OF OFFICE SPACE THAT IS EMPTY AROUND TOWN, ESPECIALLY IN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT IT, WE HAVE LOTS OF SCIENCE IN, IN THE NOR, UH, IN THE SOUTH MCDOWELL EXTENSION, YOU GET DOWN THERE NOW AND MOST OF THEM BUSINESSES, THEY'RE SCIENCE-BASED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 
          MM-HMM . 
          EVERYTHING. 
          SO ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING HERE? WELL, WE NEED TO BRING IN MORE SCIENCE, UH, COMPANIES AND, AND THINGS. 
          CAN WE GO OUT AND AND BRING THEM IN? UM, THEN, UM, THEN THE OTHER THINGS THAT THE MUSEUM RETROFIT, IT'S A HUGE TOURISM TRACTION. 
          WE, THAT HAS TO STAY UPGRADED. 
          THAT IS A HUGE MONEY MAKER FOR US. 
          THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE GO TO. 
          THAT'S ONE OF OUR, OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISM. 
          SO YEAH, WE DO NEED TO RETROFIT IT. 
          UH, SAME THING WITH THE MARINA. 
          IF WE WANT FOLKS TO BRING THEIR BOATS IN, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET IT DREDGED AND BRING THE BOAT. 
          IF, IF THAT DOESN'T PROVIDE US WITH, WITH ECON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, IF WE CAN HAVE PEOPLE LIVING, CAN WE AT LEAST DREDGE IT SO WE CAN HAVE PEOPLE LIVING THERE AND HAVE IT RENTED SMALL HOUSING ON A BOAT THAT, THAT'S HOUSING. 
          SO CAN WE HAVE LOTS OF HOUSING THERE? CAN WE DO IT AT SAUSALITO? YOU GO DOWN THERE, IT'S HOUSEBOATS. 
          WHY DON'T WE JUST SWITCH AND SAY, HEY, BRING YOUR HOUSEBOATS UP HERE, PARK IT. 
          WE'LL HAVE 20 OF THOSE ALL PAYING US RENT SINCE WE OWN IT. 
          THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE NEED TO GO IN. 
          NOT THE SMALL YACHT ONCE IN A WHILE HERE. 
          SINGLE PERSON. 
          WE NEED WHOLE HOUSES ON THE WATER THERE. 
          SO LET'S, LET'S DREDGE IT ENOUGH FOR A HOUSEBOAT. 
          YOU ONLY NEED THREE FEET. 
          YOU DON'T NEED 10 FEET, JUST NEED THREE FEET. 
          'CAUSE THEY'RE BARGES BASICALLY. 
          UM, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, THEN THE, UM, UH, ANOTHER ONE IS, IS FOR ECONOMIC. 
          LIKE OUR DAY WORKER CENTER RIGHT NOW, THE DAY WORKERS WORKING OUT THERE, IT'S, IT'S ECONOMICALLY A SAD SITUATION. 
          BUT IF WE HAD A DAY WORKER CENTER, IT MAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS AS ONE OF THE BUILDINGS, WHICH WOULD ALSO BE A RESILIENCY, PART COMPONENT FOR, FOR A FUTURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          SO CAN WE ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING SO THAT WE HAVE OUR WORKERS IN TOWN HERE DOING BETTER WORK, MORE EFFICIENT WORK FOR EVERYONE THAT NEEDS A WORKER FOR A DAY. 
          AND SO HAVING THAT DAY WORKER CENTER COULD PROVIDE A HUGE AMOUNT OF ECONOMIC BENEFIT TO ALL THE HOMEOWNERS AND SMALL BUSINESS FOLKS THAT NEED, UH, QUICK LABOR, RIGHT? THAT, SO HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING THEM? THAT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, SO ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, WE NEED TO GIVE A LITTLE HIGHER TWO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S A, A SLIGHT PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCE THERE. 
          SO I JUST WANNA SUPPORT, UM, WHAT'S BEEN SET UP HERE BASICALLY. 
          AND, AND HAVE THAT AS A, UH, A, A LENS OF EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING BECAUSE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AS OUR MAIN, BESIDES CLIMATE CHANGE, THAT'S OUR SECOND PRIORITY. 
          THAT'S EVERYBODY ELSE WANNA SAY MORE ABOUT THAT? OKAY. 
          UM, YOU WANNA TALK ON THAT ONE OR START NEW TREND? OH, BUSINESS ECON STUFF. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT THERE. 
          WITH THAT YOU HAVE A FOLLOW UP ON, ON JOHN'S THOUGHTS. 
          LET ME, LET ME, UH, LET ME, WE COULD FOLLOW UP ON HIS THOUGHTS FIRST. 
          LET ME, YOU WANNA DO, LET ME RUN BACK ON THAT. 
          UM, UM, I HAVE A REAL HARD TIME, UM, SUGGESTING THAT THE CITY'S BUSINESS WILL BE A, BASED ON A A, AN ECONOMIC DRIVER, A PRIMARY CONSIDERATION. 
          I, AND I LOVED EVERY IDEA THAT YOU SAID AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW, , UM, I, I, UH, UM, I, I HATE, UH, FRAMING THINGS IN, IN A PROFIT BASIS, BUT I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU WERE GOING WITH, YOU KNOW, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS THE ENGINE THAT RUNS EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE TOWN AND EVERY BENEFIT WE WANT FROM MUSEUM, WHICH I WAS SO HAPPY YOU RAISED TO, UM, THE, THE, UH, UH, DAY WORKERS, UH, HERE STANDING IN THE SUNSHINE AND WHATNOT. 
          UM, BUT, UH, I DEFINITELY WANT YOU ON THE MARKETING TEAM FOR THAT BECAUSE, UH, YOUR ABILITY TO PUT THAT OUT THERE IN A TIME WHEN IT MIGHT BE HARD TO GET THE ECONOMIC CONSULTANT TO SAY THOSE SAME THINGS, UM, IT, IT IS, IS GREAT TO HAVE THAT ON THE MARKETING. 
          AND I THINK PROBABLY THE COUNCIL FEELS 
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THE SAME WAY, IS THAT WE WANT THINGS TO WORK IN THE TOWN TO GROW. 
          UM, IT MAY NOT BE THAT WE CAN GET AN ECONOMIC REPORT IN THAT SAYS THE SAME THING AS OUR DESIRE TO ECONOMICALLY GROW, BUT, UM, DO APPRECIATE, UM, THE TAKE ON IT. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, SO I, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH INDUSTRY, I'VE, I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR A LONG TIME, BUT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PROMOTE IT. 
          UM, AS COUNCILMAN, UH, QUINT SAID, YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE'RE WE'RE LAST IN THE COUNTY AS FAR AS INDUSTRY GOES. 
          AND, UM, I THINK AT ONE POINT WE MUST HAVE BEEN AT THE TOP OF THE LIST AND YOU KNOW, PETALUMA WAS BORN ON THE RIVER AND IT WAS BORN ON THE RIVER BECAUSE OF THE OPPORTUNITY FOR INDUSTRY, YOU KNOW, OTHERWISE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE COME HERE, INVESTED IN IT, STARTED COMPANIES AND MADE PETALUMA WHAT IT IS TODAY. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO, YOU KNOW, PRIORITIZE PRESERVING, UH, RIVER INDUSTRIAL SITES. 
          YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO LOOK AT STUFF ALONG THE RAILS AND PRESERVE THOSE SITES AS WELL BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE OPPORTUNITY, THE, THE BUSINESSES MIGHT NOT BE THERE TODAY, BUT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO BE THERE SOMEDAY WON'T BE THERE IF WE CHANGE THAT AND CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IT. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING I REALLY WANNA SEE IS, IS INDUSTRY CITYWIDE BECOME A PRIORITY, UM, AS WELL AS THE REST OF OUR BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN. 
          WE'RE NOT JUST THE DOWNTOWN. 
          THE DOWNTOWN IS IS THE CENTER. 
          UM, BUT THERE IS A LOT MORE TO PETALUMA THAN JUST THAT. 
          AND I AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT STAFF DID PUT AN EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS ECON DEVELOPMENT THIS LAST YEAR, UM, TO COME UP WITH THEIR CONCIERGE SERVICE AND TO IMPLEMENT SOME NEW TOOLS AROUND THAT. 
          UM, I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO HEAR, WE DON'T KNOW. 
          THE CITY DOESN'T KNOW WHO ALL THE BUSINESSES IN TOWN ARE, LET ALONE HAVE CONTACT WITH THEM ALL. 
          AND SO I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DON'T KNOW THAT, BUT I WOULD THINK THAT THAT'S THE FOUNDATION OF US KNOWING, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS GONNA LOOK LIKE, IS TO KNOW EVERYBODY THAT'S INVOLVED, WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. 
          AND UM, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO ALSO LOOK AT, WE, WE NEED TO HAVE MORE OF A BASELINE OF EXACTLY WHAT WE'VE GOT IN TOWN AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, TO REALLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BUSINESSES NEED HERE SO THAT WE CAN HELP TAKE CARE OF THEM AND CONTINUE TO, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO MAKE A BETTER CITY OUT OF IT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THE COUPLE YEARS AGO, THE CHAMBERS GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, THEY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF, OF PETALUMA BEING BUSINESS READY JUST AS WE PROMOTE BEING CLIMATE READY. 
          AND I THINK TAKING A FRIENDLY APPROACH LIKE THAT TOWARDS BUSINESS WOULD REALLY HELP ENTICE BRING NEW BUSINESSES IN. 
          WE'D BE PROACTIVE AND GO OUT AND, AND SEEK NEW BUSINESSES. 
          WE'D BE LOOKING TO OTHER CITIES THAT ARE PRETTY VIBRANT AND FIGURING OUT HOW DID THEY DO IT? YOU KNOW, HOW HOW CAN PETALUMA DO THAT? BECAUSE WE'VE DEFINITELY GOT THE POTENTIAL PETALUMA'S DONE IT BEFORE AND WE COULD CONTINUE TO DO THAT AND WE SHOULD BE. 
          SO I'M GLAD STAFF'S TAKEN THE DIRECTION AND WE HAVE A NEW, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERSON ON BOARD. 
          AND, UH, YEAH, I'M JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUING THAT IN THIS NEXT YEAR. 
          COUNCILOR CATER THOMPSON, I WAS JUST, UM, ACTUALLY TALKING WITH SOMEBODY ABOUT THE RIVERFRONT AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHERE SHAMROCK IS, YOU KNOW, AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS, YOU KNOW, TO KEEP, AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT OYSTER COVE AND, YOU KNOW, CONCERN IF OYSTER COVE WENT, THEN THE SHAMROCK OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED NOW, WHATEVER, I KNOW IT'S NOT OWNED BY THEM. 
          UM, BUT I DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT BUSINESSES LIKE THAT STAY IN PETALUMA. 
          UM, BUT THE OTHER THING IS, I JUST WANTED, YOU KNOW, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS KIND OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH EKN. 
          WE HAD A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A HOTEL PROBABLY BUILT TODAY, AND IT JUST BLEW UP. 
          AND THAT WAS REALLY ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR DOWNTOWN A HIGH-END HOTEL. 
          AND I'M JUST HOPING THIS OTHER ONE REALLY GETS BUILT AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S DEFICIENCIES IN IT AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, PARKING COMPARED TO THE OTHER ONE. 
          AND I JUST DON'T THINK THE PUBLIC REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF THE ORIGINAL HOTEL. 
          IT WOULD'VE BEEN BUILT TODAY, AND IT WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT FOR OUR ECONOMICS, AND WE'D BE TALKING A DIFFERENT STORY TODAY INSTEAD OF BEING REALLY CON OF COURSE, WE'RE CONCERNED BECAUSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE, THE HIGH COSTS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE OF, UM, OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          BUT, UM, WE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT WAS A BIG SETBACK I FEEL FOR OUR DOWNTOWN. 
          AND SO WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, YOU KNOW, TALK TO BUSINESSES, BUT THEY ALSO NEED THE CUSTOMERS TO GO THERE. 
          AND IT'S NOT JUST LOCAL PEOPLE. 
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SO I JUST WANT TO RAISE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          NOW, UM, THE, UM, THE MARINA THAT COUNCIL MEMBER SHRIVES BROUGHT UP IT, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY, BUT WE COULD OUTSOURCE IT. 
          WE COULD FIND, UM, SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO HAVE HOUSEBOATS IF IT'S A, A DOABLE THING, SO WE COULD OUTSOURCE THE MARINA AND HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE RUN IT. 
          AND, UM, THAT, I JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE. 
          UM, INDUSTRY, THE RIVER AND THE RAILS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          THAT COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY BROUGHT UP. 
          THAT IS OUR HISTORY OF PETALUMA. 
          AND ALSO WE HAVE, UM, NO PLACE IN TOWN. 
          I'VE SAID THIS FOR THREE YEARS UP HERE TO BUY AN APPLIANCE. 
          IF YOUR DISHWASHER GOES OUT, YOUR WASHER AND DRYER GOES OUT YOUR TV, I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU COULD BUY A TV, MAYBE TARGET, BUT PROBABLY NOT THE HIGH END ONES. 
          ANYWAY, WE NEED THAT BUSINESS. 
          SO THAT'S AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT WE REALLY NEED TO GO FIND AND BUILD IN PETALUMA, BECAUSE OUR RETAIL TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO RUN A PARK. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO NEVADA, THEY'RE GOING TO SANTA ROSA, THEY'RE GOING TO SAN BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE AN APPLIANCE STORE IN TOWN. 
          SO IF WE BUILD NEW HOUSING, ALL THOSE APPLIANCES AND ALL THOSE REMODELS, THEY'RE SHOPPING OUTSIDE OF PETALUMA TO BUY THOSE APPLIANCES. 
          UM, THE OTHER, UM, I'M VERY ON BOARD WITH THE DESIGN BUILD THAT COUNCIL MEMBER BARN BROUGHT UP, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. 
          AND WE NEED, NEED TO PROMOTE THE CITY'S SUCCESSES AND WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS DOING. 
          WE NEED TO PROMOTE THOSE THINGS. 
          WE HEAR THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS DOING OR THE PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENT ARE DOING, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS HEAR WHAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT IS DOING AND WHAT THOSE OTHER, UM, DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING AND COMMITTEES ARE DOING. 
          AND THEY'RE DOING REALLY WONDERFUL THINGS. 
          AND WE DO HAVE, UM, THESE VACANT BUILDINGS. 
          THERE'S VACANT GYMS, THERE'S VACANT VACANT PAINT STORES THAT WE NEED TO FILL WITH SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS PROBABLY NEEDED THAT I CAN'T THINK OF RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT THOSE ARE JUST TO ADD ON TO, UM, THE THINGS THAT ARE NEEDED IN PETALUMA THAT PEOPLE ARE LEAVING TOWN TO PURCHASE. 
          IT'S BEEN A GOOD EVENING. 
          UM, UH, FRANK, ARE YOU, ARE YOU, UH, GETTING READY TO CLOSE OR WRAP UP? AND A COUPLE THOUGHTS. 
          UH, ONE THOUGHT I WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HOUSING AND UM, UM, YOU KNOW, ANECDOTES COME IN AND MY FRIEND IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, WARREN WILL TELL YOU THAT, UM, THAT I USE THE TAGLINE A LOT. 
          THE PLURAL OF ANECDOTE IS NOT DATA, BUT I'M GONNA TELL A STORY ANYWAY. 
          I MEAN, I'M HEARING MORE AND MORE BUSINESSES SAYING I CAN'T GET THE LABOR FORCE. 
          AND, AND, AND I MENTIONED THAT TO SOME AND THEY, THEY SAID, THAT'S 'CAUSE RENT AND HOUSING ISN'T AVAILABLE OR TOO HIGH. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE KIND OF ADDRESSED. 
          AND I TALKED TO OTHERS WHO SAY THEY'RE NOT PAYING A WAGE THAT'LL RECRUIT A WORKER. 
          AND I GO, WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW I WORK FROM THAT SIDE OF THINGS. 
          HOPEFULLY THE CITY CAN INFLUENCE. 
          AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FEE STRUCTURES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT'S A NEW PRODUCTION, BUT ESPECIALLY, I GUESS PRODUCTION GOAL, INDEPENDENT OF THE MEANS TO GET TO PRODUCTION GOAL IS A REAL VALUE. 
          AND I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT AGAIN. 
          I DID LOVE THE IDEA OF, UH, UM, WE NEED MORE IN OUR, UH, COMMS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WE'VE TRIED TO CONNECT A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          AND YET I TALKED TO SOMEBODY TODAY WHO'S BEEN INVOLVED IN THE TREE PROTECTION ORDINANCE AND HE SAID, OH, I DIDN'T REALIZE IT PASSED. 
          DID YOU GUYS PASS THAT? I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOD, WHY ISN'T YOUR NET BLOWING UP WITH ACHIEVEMENTS WHEN WE HAVE ACHIEVEMENTS? TELL THE GOOD STORY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE TROUBLES, YOU CAN COME ON A COUNCIL ON A MONDAY NIGHT AND TELL A BAD STORY. 
          BUT WHEN WE HAVE THE GOOD STORY, PUMP THAT OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND, AND THOSE WERE TWO THINGS I WANTED TO HAVE ON THE TABLE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER QUINT. 
          YEAH. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO DON FOREMAN FOR, FOR, IS HE STILL HERE? WELL, I KNOW . 
          YEAH. 
          THANK, UM, WELL, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE'S ADVOCATING FOR SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED. 
          AND I WOULD, I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR, AND I WOULD, UH, I WOULD LOVE FOR MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SUPPORT MAKING, UM, A DOWNTOWN BATHROOM A PRIORITY. 
          I MEAN, I DON'T MEAN TO GET TOO PUNTY HERE, BUT MAYBE WE 
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ADD AN EXTRA MILLION DOLLARS TO THE PIPS PROJECT. 
          I MEAN, IT IS ALL SEWER RELATED AND BUILD A, BUILD A BATHROOM OR MAYBE I, I DON'T KNOW, SOMEHOW LIKE IT JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, SEEMS TO ME TO BE SOMETHING WE SHOULD WORK ON GETTING DONE. 
          AND THAT'S OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CAN I JUMP IN? YOU MAY COULDN'T THE CITY GO BACK TO OUR PARTNER WITH THE DOWNTOWN BATHROOM, THE LAND OWNER THAT HAS THE BATHROOMS THAT ARE DOWNTOWN. 
          CAN WE REOPEN THAT? CAN, WOULD, WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER TO HELP US WITH THAT? SURE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          SURE. 
          THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          SURE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER NOW . 
          BUT, UM, AND ALSO SOME WAY FINDING, UM, AS A GRANDMOTHER OF SEVEN SMALL CHILDREN WHO HAVE SMALL BLADDERS AND AN OLD LADY HERE, THEY'RE A WAY FINDING, JUST TO POINT OUT THAT WE DO HAVE SOME DOWNTOWN BATHROOMS AND IT MIGHT HELP, BUT WE ALSO COULDN'T MAYBE REOPEN THAT CAN OF WORMS. SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION TO UPDATE THEIR MAP, WHICH WE NEED TO GET ON OUR WEBSITE. 
          UM, BECAUSE THERE ARE ACTUALLY ARE SOME PLACES IN DOWNTOWN THAT YOU CAN USE RESTROOM. 
          UM, AND THEN SPEAKING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER, UM, YOU NEED TO, WE NEED YOUR HELP BECAUSE YEAH, WE MAKE THAT PROJECT. 
          YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          I I'LL FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THAT ONE. 
          THANKS. 
          I MEAN THAT THE BUILDING'S BEING RENOVATED, I MEAN, THAT WAS KIND OF THE TIME TO REALLY TALK TO THEM AGAIN. 
          UM, BECAUSE IT WAS A PUBLIC BATHROOM AT ONE POINT AND THEN WE OFFERED TO RENOVATE IT AND MAINTAIN IT. 
          YEAH, NO, I KNOW THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO, BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT, UNFORTUNATELY IT'S ABOUT A PIECE OF PROPERTY OVER THERE THAT HE WANTS TO SELL TO THE CITY FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY. 
          AND IT'S QUID QUO PRO, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. 
          WE DON'T HAVE THAT MONEY. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AND I WANNA BRING UP ONE MORE THING ON, UH, THE, UH, PLASTIC TURF. 
          I THINK FOR THE FUTURE, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, NOT REPLACE OTHER FIELDS WITH THE PLASTIC. 
          AND I THINK THAT CAN PROBABLY BE IN ANOTHER YEAR THAT WE CAN ACTU OR SOME YEAR WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE A LOT OF PLASTIC TURF AND WHAT DO THEY, WHAT ARE THEIR PLANS? AND MAYBE START WITH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOLS HOME STRETCH. 
          CAN I ASK PATRICK CARTER TO COME UP? BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE COUNTY IS DOING SOMETHING ON NO TURF. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, ZERO WASTE SONOMA, UM, IS A COUNTYWIDE OR, UH, ORGANIZATION, A JPA JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY OF THE CITIES OF THE CITIES AND THE COUNTY. 
          UM, SO ALL, ALL 10 JURISDICTIONS, UH, THEY ARE WORKING ON A MALL ORDINANCE. 
          UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS GONNA BE GOING TO THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FIRST FOR DIRECTION. 
          I'D NEED TO FOLLOW UP TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY DECIDED ON THAT. 
          I THINK IT WAS MIXED. 
          UM, THERE WERE SOME EQUITY CONCERNS ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, BUT UM, YEAH, I CAN PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THAT. 
          UM, AND CERTAINLY IF THAT IS, UM, IF THAT MODEL ORDINANCE IS, UM, PRODUCED BY ZERO WASTE SONOMA, IT WOULD BE THEY DON'T HAVE AUTHORITY TO DO THINGS COUNTYWIDE, IT WOULD BE COMING TO EACH JURISDICTION FOR APPROVAL. 
          UM, SO THERE, THERE MAY BE SOME ACTION COUNTYWIDE ON THAT HAPPENING THIS YEAR. 
          THAT'S GREAT. 
          AND THEN WE CAN GET UPDATES ON IT. 
          THANK YOU, PATRICK. 
          YES, AND I THINK, UH, WE'VE HAD, UM, UH, PARK AND REC CONSTRAINTS ON FIELDS BEFORE, YOU KNOW, IT USED TO BE A CONCERN OF YOU CAN'T PLAY IF IT'S RAINED AND GONNA DAMAGE THE FIELD. 
          I DON'T SEE A REASON WHY A STANDARD COULDN'T BE SET FOR WHEN A FIELD CLOSURE OCCURS, YOU KNOW, DUE TO THE HEAT. 
          AND SO THAT'S MAYBE SOMETHING TO PUT INTO THOUGHTS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SCH SHRIMPS. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID DISCUSS AT THE TIME WE DID THE LUCCHESE FIELD, UM, WAS SHOULD THERE BE ANY NEW, UM, ARTIFICIAL TURFS ANYWHERE HERE IN TOWN? AND I THINK A SIMPLER THING THAN A BIG ORDINANCE MIGHT BE JUST A SIMPLE, UM, UM, A, A CALLING FOR A MORATORIUM ON ANY NEW TURF, UH, JUST AS A, AT LEAST A TEMPORARY, MAYBE A, A YEAR OR TWO UNTIL WE GET AN ORDINANCE IN PLACE. 
          BUT I'M HOPING A MORATORIUM, UH, VOTE WOULD JUST, UH, OF ANY NEW ARTIFICIAL TURF ANYWHERE WOULD, WOULD, UH, WITH A CERTAIN DATE START. 
          I THINK THAT WOULD BE HOPEFULLY SIMPLER AND EASIER AND QUICKER. 
          ARE YOU ASKING THAT TO BE A PUBLIC DEAL? YEAH. 
          ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT RESIDENTIAL USE? UH, LANDSCAPE USE, RESIDENTIAL, PUBLIC, UH, OR INDUSTRIAL WHATEVER. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, NO ARTIFICIAL TURF, NO NEW TURF ON, ON LAND HERE IN THE CITY. 
          INTERESTING IDEA. 
          WE COULD CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT. 
          THE, UM, THE, UM, THE MORATORIA OR INTERIM ORDINANCES AS, AS THEY'RE CALLED IN SECTION 6 5 8 5 8 IN THE GOVERNMENT CODE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A TOOL THAT THEIR INTENDED PURPOSE IS TO FREEZE THE STATUS QUO WHILE AN AGENCY IS CONSIDERING NEW REGULATIONS TO BUY TIME. 
          AND SO THAT'S THE 
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PURPOSE IT'S INTENDED FOR. 
          AND, AND WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THAT PARTICULAR THING, BUT, UM, AND THERE'S A, THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH DOING IT IN A WAY THAT IT GETS IN THE WAY OF NEW HOUSING. 
          'CAUSE, 'CAUSE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S A MORATORIUM ON MORATORIUM ON HOUSING, UM, IF YOU WILL. 
          BUT, BUT PROBABLY THAT'S, THAT PROBABLY THERE'S NOT A PROBLEM WITH TURF. 
          SO WE COULD CHECK ON THAT. 
          AND IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S A COUNCIL PRIORITY, YEAH, WE CAN CERTAINLY ACT ON IT, HOPEFULLY, IF THAT'S A SIMPLE THING TO DO. 
          YEAH, THAT'S NOT RIGHT. 
          QUICK, QUICK, DIRTY WAY OF DOING IT TEMPORARILY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER QUINN. 
          YEAH, I, I MEAN, I DON'T REALLY, ME PERSONALLY, I DON'T WANT, UH, STAFF SPENDING ANY TIME ON THAT, UH, IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 
          UM, BECAUSE ANY NEW PROJECTS NEED TO COME TO US FOR APPROVAL AND WE CAN SAY YES, OR I MEAN, WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, LOOK AT EACH PROJECT, UM, ON ITS OWN MERIT AND MAKE THAT DECISION. 
          AND I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT IN THAT, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE, UH, WE BAN ROUNDUP, UM, ON CITY FACILITY, BUT WE DON'T, THE PUBLIC DOESN'T BUY INTO THAT SAME LEVEL AND IT, SO IT DOESN'T SEEM, UM, LIKE, UH, THERE'S AN EQUITY THERE THAT MORE COMMUNICATION WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO, YOU KNOW, WE, THE MESSAGE, THOSE HARM MESSAGES NEED TO GET SOLD TO THE INDIVIDUAL AS WELL AS TO, UH, CITY. 
          SO, AND I THINK I, I THINK WE, THEY WERE, I THINK THE PUBLIC WAS TRYING TO SELL US ON DOING IT. 
          YEAH. 
          NOT US TRYING TO SELL THEM. 
          SO WE HAD A HUGE OUTPOURING OF FOLKS TRYING TO DO THAT, SELL US ON THAT IDEA. 
          SO, UH, I THINK YOU, YOU, YOUR LOGIC IS REVERSED HERE. 
          I'M, I'M CONCERNED THAT THE CITY, THE MINORITY USER OF A PRODUCT IS THE ONLY CHANGE WHEN THE NEED IS TO CHANGE. 
          THE MAJORITY USE, YOU KNOW, ROUNDUP MUCH MORE GETS SOLD, YOU KNOW, AT, UH, THE HARDWARE STORES THAN GETS USED BY THE CITY. 
          SO, AND, AND THE MENTALITY, THE MESSAGING ON CLIMATE FOR ME HAS TO BE THAT WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER PARTNERS THAT YOU, IT ISN'T JUST BEING IMPRESSED ON THE CITY, IT'S, WE DO IT AND WE HOPE YOU DO IT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S DIFFERENT MESSAGES. 
          HOME STRETCH, EVERYBODY, COUNCIL MEMBER SCHS, WE BRING UP NEW TOPICS. 
          SURE. 
          UH, JUST GO BACK TO WHAT WAS SAID EARLIER, MICROPHONE CITY CHARTER WAS MENTIONED. 
          THE CITY CHARTER WAS, UH, MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          UM, IS IT POSSIBLE, UM, THIS IS DOING A, A, A CREATING A NEW CITY CHARTER. 
          THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT AI APPLICATION AND ABOUT ONE HOUR, UM, IF I WORKED WITH A STAFF PERSON, I COULD PROBABLY COME UP WITH, UM, AN, AN ACTUAL CITY CHARGER THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK. 
          SO IF, IF, IF THAT JUST AS A TRIAL BASIS, JUST AS A TEST CASE, I THINK THAT IS QUITE POSSIBLE NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, JUST, JUST TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. 
          UH, 'CAUSE WE, THERE'S PLENTY OF CITIES WITH CITY CHARTERS, WE COULD DO SOMETHING. 
          BUT WITH THAT LIST THAT YOU JUST SAID, YOU HAD AND PLUS AI BE ALLOWED TO HELP YOU NAVIGATE THE AI ON THAT ANYWAY, JUST AS, AS, AS A POSSIBILITY. 
          UM, SO, UM, AND DO YOU GUYS HAVE STANDING MEETINGS? UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, SHRIVES, DO YOU OCCASIONALLY MEET WITH, UH, LEGAL STAFF? UM, WELL, I, I'M JUST ASKING IF I COULD WORK WITH THEM FOR AN HOUR RED THEN, UM, PERHAPS THAT WOULD BE A CONVERSATION FOR THAT DISCUSSION, THAT POINT MAYBE. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT, LET, LET'S MOVE ON. 
          UM, UH, THE OTHER AREA I WAS HOPING TO WORK ON, UH, TONIGHT WAS ALSO, UM, 'CAUSE OUR CLIMATE READINESS. 
          AND THAT IS, UM, ONE OF OUR, OUR, OUR, LIKE OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL THAT WE'VE KIND OF PROMOTED THAT THIS IS WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT. 
          UM, AND JUST AS A REMINDER THAT THERE IS SO MUCH TIED UP IN THAT, BUT IT'S, IT MAY HAVE TO BE DONE SOONER THAN LATER. 
          AND ALL THESE THINGS ARE TIED TO CLIMATE RESILIENCY. 
          AND JUST, JUST FOR EXAMPLES, UM, THE SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOODING ADAPTATIONS, NOT, WHEREAS WE'RE TRYING TO CHANGE OUR WATER POLICIES, BUT ACTUALLY ADAPTING TO THIS FUTURE THAT WE'RE FACING, UM, WE HAVE RESILIENCY CENTER AT THE FAIR GROUND, WHICH WOULD POSSIBLY INCLUDE, UM, A COMBINATION WITH, WITH, UH, THE POLICE AND FIRE, BUT ALSO IT WOULD HAVE A, MAYBE USING THE, UM, UH, THE RACEWAY TRACK AS WELL AS BUILDINGS FOR A SENIOR CENTER AS WELL AS A DAYCARE CENTER WOULD ALL BE COMBINED TOGETHER INTO A MORE OF A RESILIENCY CENTER, UM, UH, INSTITUTION AS WELL AS A PARK, WHICH WE'D ALSO SERVE AS FOR BRINGING PEOPLE IN FOR IT TO STAY. 
          UM, UH, CASE OF DISASTERS, UM, WE NEED GREEN, UH, GREENWAY AND OPEN SPACES BECAUSE OUR GROUNDWATER, WE'RE GONNA BE MORE DEPENDENT ON OUR GROUNDWATER. 
          WE'RE USING FIVE TO 10% NOW. 
          UH, WE MAY NEED END UP BEING 20% DOWN THE ROAD GIVEN, UM, WHAT, WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING. 
          SO WE HAVE TO BUILD OUT OUR GROUNDWATER NETWORK AS WELL AS THE LAND NEEDS TO BE KEPT IN GREENWAYS 
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AND OPEN SPACES FOR THAT PURPOSE. 
          UM, AND THEN IN OUR TRANSPORT, WE'RE LOSING TRANSPORT MONIES AND DOING THINGS. 
          SO WE HAVE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT TRANSPORT, UH, BESIDES THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UH, BIKING AND WALKING AND WHEELING EVERYWHERE. 
          UM, SO WE HAVE TO SHIFT OVER AND WE MAY HAVE TO GO TO SHARE RIDES, AUTONOMOUS SHARE RIDE SYSTEMS WITH, WITH MICROCAR, WHATEVER. 
          SO WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT THOSE THINGS, WHICH IS A, WHICH IS TOTALLY NEW FOR US HERE. 
          IT'S BEING USED IN OTHER PLACES, BUT IT'S NOT IN EVEN OUR CONCEPTS, NOT EVEN IN OUR GENERAL PLAN, NOT EVEN, UH, ANYWHERE LISTED. 
          SO, UM, GET, AND THEN ANOTHER THING IS ON THE FAIRGROUNDS OF HAVING AG, BECAUSE WE'RE, OUR FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IS GOING TO GET DISRUPTED. 
          THAT'S ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS. 
          ALL THE TRUCKING'S GETTING DISRUPTED RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, THE COST OF GAS IS GOING UP. 
          THE TRUCKING MAY BE DIFFICULT. 
          SHIPPING, GLOBAL SHIPPING IS BEING DISRUPTED. 
          THAT IS COMING MORE AND MORE SO HAVING A FOOD DISTRIBUTION LOCAL. 
          SO WE NEED, 'CAUSE WE JUST ARTICLE SAID WE WERE ONE OF A, A MAJOR CANNING OF FRUIT. 
          WE SHOULD HAVE FRUITS. 
          WE, YEAH, IT'S NICE TO HAVE, WE HAVE COWS AND WE HAVE, UM, UH, CHICKENS AND WE HAVE VINES, UH, GRAPEVINES. 
          BUT WE REALLY NEED, UM, UH, OTHER STUFF. 
          WE ALSO NEED, UM, A LOT MORE, UM, VEGETABLES AND FRUIT GROWN HERE, WHICH USED TO BE GROWN HERE. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO BRING THAT BACK. 
          SO WE NEEDED TO SUPPORT THAT THROUGH OUR AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          SO THAT IS PART OF A RES RESILIENCY PART. 
          UH, NOT JUST SUPPORTING OUR CURRENT AG, BUT ACTUALLY LOOKING AT OUR FUTURE AG, WHAT WE REALLY NEED, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          SO THERE'S ALL THIS, ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR THIS RESILIENCY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE BROADENED OUT EVEN FURTHER THAN WHAT WE ARE NOW, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S COMING SOONER THAN LATER, AS WAS UH, SAID EARLIER TODAY AS ONE OF, UH, AS OUR FIRST PRESENTER. 
          SO I JUST WANNA JUST BRING THAT BACK UP. 
          AND THERE'S ALL SORTS OF OTHER THINGS THAT ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THAT AS, AS A MAJOR EMPHASIS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          BUT TO FOLLOW UP ON WHAT COUNCILMAN SCH TRIPS IS TALKING ABOUT WITH, WITH MAKING PETALUMA MORE SELF-SUFFICIENT. 
          UM, I WAS GONNA TALK ABOUT IT EARLIER WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT I THINK AS WE, AS WE LOOK AT WHAT THE CITY NEEDS, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME IN PETALUMA WHERE THINGS WERE EITHER, UM, BROUGHT AND SOLD HERE OR PRODUCED HERE, AND PETALUMA COULD PROBABLY STAND ALONE. 
          EVERYTHING YOU EVER NEEDED, YOU COULD GET HERE. 
          AND I THINK AS THE, THE TEAM DEVELOPS AN ECONOMIC PLAN, WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE MAKE PETALUMA, UM, COMPLETELY STANDALONE AND SELF-SUFFICIENT. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILOR BARNACLE. 
          UM, IT'S HARD TO BE ONE HOUR CHARTERS. 
          UM, , UH, , UH, I DEFINITELY AGREE THAT WE, LIKE, I THINK THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IS A POINT WELL MADE. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY, UM, WAYMO IS ACTUALLY ELIGIBLE TO COME HERE NOW. 
          UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR HOUSING AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HOUSING, WE'RE, UM, YOU KNOW, AVS ARE GONNA, THEY, THEY HOLD THE POTENTIAL TO, TO MAKE ONE CAR HOUSEHOLDS, NO CAR HOUSEHOLDS, LIKE A MUCH MORE REAL THING. 
          AND WE NEED TO LIKE, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GRAPPLING WITH IT IN THE SAME WAY. 
          THEY DON'T NECESSARILY THINK WE'RE GRAPPLING WITH AI IN THE WAY THAT IT'S GONNA CHANGE THINGS OR IT COULD CHANGE THINGS. 
          UM, OF COURSE CLIMATE, LIKE, I THINK THAT'S STILL A TOP PRIORITY FOR THIS CITY. 
          IT'S STILL, UM, EVERYWHERE IT, IT LEADERS IN ALL THE STUFF WE DO. 
          UM, THE ONE THING I'LL SAY IS WE CALLED IT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION THIS YEAR. 
          I DEFINITELY, I WOULD PREFER THAT WE KEEP CALLING IT SAFE STREETS. 
          UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IS WONKY JARGON AND SAFE STREETS IS ABOUT THE OUTCOMES. 
          UM, 2025 ACTUALLY SAW MORE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES IN PETALUMA THAN ANY YEAR IN RECENT RECORD. 
          UM, AND SO WE CLEARLY HAVE WORK TO DO. 
          THERE'S STILL A LOT MORE TO BE DONE. 
          AND I THINK, UM, WHEN WE CHARACTERIZE IT AS ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, IT FEELS LIKE GETTING PEOPLE OUTTA THEIR CARS OR INFRASTRUCTURE ONLY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          BUT IT'S ENFORCEMENT. 
          I MEAN, MY DAUGHTER BOLTED OUT OF ART PLAY CAFE THIS WEEKEND AND ALMOST GOT TRUCKED BY A DAD AND THREE KIDS ON E-BIKES AND E SCOOTERS AND LIKE, I ALMOST TOOK THE GUY OUT BECAUSE HE ALMOST TOOK MY DAUGHTER OUT, YOU KNOW, SHE'S TWO AND, UM, ON THE SIDEWALK, LIKE, I WANT ENFORCEMENT YEAH, ON THE SIDEWALK IN DOWNTOWN, LIKE TRUCKING AT LIKE 15 MILES AN HOUR. 
          LIKE I, UM, I WANT ENFORCEMENT. 
          UM, AND UH, SO I, UM, I THINK ALL OF THAT FITS INTO IT. 
          I WOULD REALLY PREFER TO KEEP IT TERMED SAFE STREETS. 
          UM, IT'S MORE INCLUSIVE, IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE. 
          UM, ALL OF THAT. 
          UM, I THINK ALL THE STUFF ABOUT THE FAIRGROUNDS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER ROU SAID IS GREAT, BUT I THINK THE KEY IS GET THE MASTER PLAN STARTED. 
          DON'T LET THINGS SLIP, KEEP THINGS MOVING FORWARD, UM, IS REALLY THE, THE NAME OF THE GAME ON ALL THIS STUFF. 
          UM, THE BEST 
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RESISTANCE WE HAVE TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW FROM OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD IN THE WAY THAT WE BELIEVE IN. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF WHO DO THAT EVERY DAY. 
          FEELING GOOD ABOUT THINGS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          NOW COUNCIL, BEFORE WE END, I DO WANNA BRING UP THE FACT THAT I HAVE A STREET THAT I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO HAVE FIXED FOR THREE YEARS. 
          IT'S GETTING NOT ANY BETTER. 
          IT'S DOWN TO GRAVEL AND IT IS DESIGNATED TO BE A SAFE STREET SOMEDAY ON OUR SCHEDULE. 
          AND THAT'S ST. 
          FRANCIS AND IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, WALK SCHOOL, AND IT GOES FROM MCDOWELL ALL THE WAY TO THE CATWALK. 
          AND THOSE E-BIKES ARE ON THE SIDEWALK A LOT AND THEY WORRY, ME AND MY GRANDCHILDREN AND I DO THE YOGURT AT TARGET, AND THEY'RE COMING OFF THAT CATWALK SO FAST INTO THE TARGET SHOPPING CENTER AROUND THE TARGET SHOPPING CENTER. 
          AND THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE GONNA REALLY, THERE'S GONNA BE A FATAL ACCIDENT, UM, NOT TO MENTION ON WASHINGTON STREET IN FRONT OF THE BASEBALL PARKS. 
          AND, UM, WHEN I HONK MY HORN, I AM GONNA GET THE MIDDLE FINGER BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT OBEYING ANY RULES. 
          THEY'RE NOT WEARING THEIR HELMETS CORRECTLY OR AT ALL. 
          SO WE REALLY DO NEED TO PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT WE CAN, UM, I THINK GO TO THE PARENTS AND SAY, PLEASE ENFORCE THIS. 
          I, I KNOW I HEAR IT'S, OH, GRANDMA AND GRANDPA BOUGHT THAT BIKE, AND THE KID GETS TO RIDE IT. 
          WELL, SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE TAKING RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THAT RIDER HURTS SOMEBODY. 
          AND ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 AND THEY'RE RIDING THESE BIKES THROUGH THE CASEY PARK WITH ALL THESE BALLPLAYERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND SIBLINGS COMING OUT, AND THEY'RE, SOMEONE'S GONNA GET HURT. 
          SO I JUST, SAFE STREETS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME FROM, UM, AND, AND IT'S A SLURRY SEAL IS NOT GONNA DO IT. 
          SO I'M JUST GONNA LEAVE WITH THAT FOR THE EVENING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE ALMOST GOT TO THE END OF THE CONVERSATION WITHOUT E-BIKES COMING UP ON THE AGENDA. 
          IT'S FAR POSSIBLE , BUT I THINK, UH, I THINK ALL OF US ARE GETTING CALLS ON E-BIKES AND, UM, WATCHING, UH, BEHAVIOR ON THAT. 
          AND I'M HOPING THAT'S STILL IN STAFF'S WORK PLAN. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON. 
          WELL, AND, AND RECENTLY, AND I SENT THE ARTICLE, I THINK TO POLICE DEPARTMENT OF A WOMAN IN DAVIS, A NURSE, AND SHE GOT HIT AND IT MIGHT, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, BUT SHE DIED AND THIS WAS ABOUT FOUR WEEKS AGO. 
          I MEAN, SO THEY REALLY ARE DANGEROUS AND WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND EVERY TIME I LOOK AT OUR CAMRY AND SEE THE BIG DENT IN THE BACK OF THE TRUNK FROM THE E-BIKE THAT HIT JERRY, I MEAN, THEY, YOU HAVE TO GO PRETTY FAST TO MAKE A DENT IN A CAR LIKE THAT. 
          SO I SEE IT EVERY DAY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER DI CARLY, UM, YEAH, E-BIKES IS ONE OF THE THINGS ON MY LIST AND I STILL HAVE MY WHOLE LIST TO GO THROUGH. 
          BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I E-BIKES, UM, AND BIKES, JUST TWO WHEELS IN GENERAL. 
          YOU KNOW, WE JUST, UH, LAST FALL PASSED THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, AND THAT'S A HUGE GRID OF BIKE ROUTES, UM, THROUGHOUT THE TOWN. 
          AND WE DON'T, WE, YOU KNOW, I SEE KIDS ALL THE TIME DOING STUFF THAT THEY SHOULDN'T, THAT I MIGHT HAVE AT ONE POINT, BUT THEY SHOULDN'T. 
          AND, UM, UH, SOME OF IT'S PRETTY SAFE AND I'VE WATCHED PEDESTRIANS GET HIT ON SIDEWALKS BY BIKES AND THE BIKES RUN OFF AND, YOU KNOW, UM, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO, UM, INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS. 
          THERE'S NO, UM, REGISTRATION FOR THE BIKES. 
          THERE'S NO ANY SORT OF TRAINING CLASSES, ANYTHING LIKE THAT, ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE AS A MOTORIST ON THE ROAD TO HAVE AN ACTUAL LICENSE. 
          UM, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT YET. 
          WE'VE, WE'VE NOW CREATED A PLAN WHERE THIS IS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE TOWN, AND ON ONE HALF YOU HAVE LOTS OF REGULATIONS AND, AND LICENSING, AND ON THE OTHER HALF YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 
          AND SO WHILE WE DO NEED TO ENFORCE, I MEAN THE, THE LAWS ARE OUT THERE ALREADY. 
          WHILE WE DO NEED TO ENFORCE THOSE AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND UPON THEM, WE NEED TO LOOK AT TOO, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AS BIKES AND CARS, YOU KNOW, INEVITABLY INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER. 
          WE DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE REALITY OF IT. 
          YOU SAID YOU HAD A LIST, OTHER COMMENTS? YEAH, NO, I CAN GO TO THE LIST NOW. 
          UM, IT WAS MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION EARLIER, UM, YOU KNOW, AND I'M GLAD THAT WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING COMING TO US ABOUT BRINGING PLANNING BACK IN HOUSE. 
          UM, HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS AT THE LAST GOALS AND PRIORITIES MEETING AND, YOU KNOW, WAS PROMISED, UM, 
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PROMISED SOME STUFF TO DO WITH THAT, WHICH I NEVER RECEIVED. 
          SO HOPEFULLY I'LL GET UPDATES ON THAT AS, AS THAT COMES TO US. 
          UM, BUT NONETHELESS, I WOULD LIKE STAFF TO FOLLOW UP ON THOSE THINGS. 
          UM, I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT ROADS, WHICH WAS ALSO ADDRESSED TONIGHT, BUT UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THAT FIVE YEAR PAVING PLAN AND NOT MUCH HAS BEEN DONE SINCE. 
          AND ROADS HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, RESEALED, YOU KNOW, TAR SNAKES, SLURRY, RESEAL, ALL THAT STUFF. 
          BUT I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF MAJOR ROADS AROUND TOWN THAT ARE IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE, AND I UNDERSTAND TRYING TO ALIGN IT WITH, UM, UTILITY WORK. 
          BUT, UH, I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT, A LOT, A LOT OF ROADS THAT NEED IT AND THE CITY MADE A PROMISE THAT THOSE ROADS WERE GONNA GET REFINISHED. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, IN THIS LAST YEAR TO REALLY ONLY BE TALKING ABOUT PAVING A PORTION OF RAINIER, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS A PRETTY MEDIUM USE ROAD COMPARED TO A LOT, WE, WE NEED TO BE DOING A LOT MORE AND PRIORITIZING MORE ROAD PAVEMENT, UM, IN THE COMING YEARS TO FULFILL THAT PROMISE OF THE FIVE-YEAR PAVING PLAN. 
          AND THEN, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FUNDING SAFE AND STUFF, BUT I THINK THE FUTURE OF TRANSIT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED AS WELL AND ENSURING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO EITHER GET THE FUNDING FOR IT OR, OR DETERMINE WHAT, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WHAT DIRECTION WE'RE GONNA GO IN. 
          UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO AGRICULTURE. 
          I BROUGHT THIS UP LAST YEAR. 
          UM, BUT AGRICULTURE DOES NEED A LOT OF SUPPORT IN PETALUMA, AND IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE MEASURE J AND I HAVEN'T SEEN A LOT FROM EITHER THE CITY OR THE COUNTY SINCE THEN. 
          AND AGRICULTURE CONTINUES TO FACE VARIOUS SERIOUS THREATS. 
          AND WITHOUT GOING INTO DETAILS UP HERE, UM, AGRICULTURE DOES NEED HELP. 
          AND I THINK THE CITY NEEDS TO WORK MUCH CLOSER WITH THE COUNTY AND FIGURE OUT SOLUTIONS TO PROTECT, UM, NOT ONLY JUST OUR HERITAGE, BUT ARE A MAJOR ECONOMIC DRIVER IN OUR COUNTY. 
          BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE PEOPLE ARE KIND OF ON THEIR OWN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND I FEEL LIKE BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY, THEY SHOULD BOTH BE COMING UP WITH SOLUTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROTECT AGRICULTURE. 
          BECAUSE EVEN IF IT'S OUTSIDE IN THE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, IT STILL AFFECTS US IN HERE BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH AG SUPPORT, UH, BUSINESS WISE WITHIN THE CITY. 
          IT WOULD AFFECT US GREATLY HERE TOO. 
          SO WE REALLY NEED TO PROTECT OUTSIDE AND INSIDE AND WORK WITH THE COUNTY TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT DONE. 
          SO I WOULD APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES TAKING AN INTEREST IN THAT TOO, AND HELPING TO DIRECT STAFF AND FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY GET THAT DONE. 
          . 
          THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, ON, ON FINANCE, I, I DO THINK, YOU KNOW, AS WE TALK, AS WAS MENTIONED HOURS AGO IN PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, YOU TO DO SOME SORT OF A FORMAL RISK ASSESSMENT IN THE COMING BUDGET AND PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, CLEAR, CLEAR UNASSIGNED FUNDING THAT MATCHES LIKE GFOA GUIDELINES AND FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN DO THAT TO ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RESERVES AND WHAT THEY ARE AND BE MORE CLEAR ABOUT IT AS AGAIN WAS MENTIONED. 
          AND, UM, YEAH, SO YOU KNOW, AGRICULTURE, BUSINESS AND ECON DEVELOPMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, PLANNING ROADS, TRANSIT FINANCE, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE KIND OF AT THE TOP OF MY LIST RIGHT NOW. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE EMPHASIS ON THIS YEAR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SCHIBS, JUST AS A REMINDER OF LIST OF WHAT WE HAVE STARTED WITH, WHICH IS A PRESENTATION WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF THINGS HOLISTICALLY DONE ACROSS A BROAD SPECTRUM OF JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING HERE IN THIS TOWN, UM, UH, THAT CELEBRATE WHAT WHAT WE'VE GOT DONE. 
          AND, AND WE ARE MOVING IN A, IN A HOLISTIC WAY. 
          UM, AND THAT STAFF IS GOING TO WORK ON A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME TO IMPROVE US HOLISTICALLY. 
          AND, UH, SO I JUST WANNA LEAVE US WITH A POSITIVE NOTE THAT I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, CONTINUING WORKING ON MANY FRONTS IN A LITTLE WAYS. 
          EVERYBODY'S WORKING TOWARD A, A VISION UNIFORMLY, I THINK, HERE AND WHERE WE'RE IN STEP WITH EACH OTHER. 
          AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHERE WE'RE GOING. 
          ALRIGHT, BARNAL, FINISH OFF ON THE AG THING. 
          UM, I REALLY THINK WE'VE GOTTA FOCUS ON WHAT WE CAN DO IN, IN THE CITY. 
          LIKE WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC, WE SAID THIS LAST YEAR, IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC THINGS THAT THE CITY AND THE COUNTY SHOULD WORK TOGETHER ON, BUT LIKE, JUST SAYING GO, GO DO IS NOT, IT'S NOT POLICY DIRECTION. 
          LIKE WE HEARD FROM THE FOLKS WHO ARE OPERATING THE FAIR, THAT WE'RE DOING AG PROGRAMMING NOW ON THE FAIR AND WE'RE FOCUSING MORE ON THAT. 
          UM, 
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YOU KNOW, MY THING, THE THING THAT I THINK VERY CONCRETELY IN THE CITY THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON, WE'VE ALL MET WITH THE OWNERS OF HUNT AND BARONS. 
          UM, LIKE TO ME THE BIG RISK IS WE LOSE REIHART DUCKS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          WE HEARD, YOU KNOW, VERY CLEARLY THAT IF THE, IF ONE OF THE BIG AG PRODUCERS OUT IN THE COUNTY GOES, IT'S GONNA PUT A LOT OF HARDSHIP ON HUNTING BARONS. 
          LIKE WE'VE GOTTA FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO IN THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, THE AG SUPPORTING BUSINESSES THAT WE HAVE FEEL SUPPORTED. 
          I LOVE THAT WE'VE GOT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOLKS ALL IN THE, IN THE ROOM HERE. 
          BUT LIKE, UM, TO ME THAT'S LIKE, IF WE'RE GONNA SUPPORT AG, LIKE THAT'S THE THING THAT WE NEED TO LEAN INTO IS, UM, MAKING SURE THAT LIKE THOSE BUSINESSES, UM, HAVE THE SUPPORT THEY NEED TO CONTINUE TO, TO SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, THE AG COMMUNITY AT LARGE. 
          BECAUSE I JUST, I DON'T SEE LIKE, AND I, WITHOUT A, LIKE, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO, TO JUMP ON BOARD AND SAY, YES, LET'S DO THAT WITHOUT A CONCRETE PROPOSAL BECAUSE OUR STAFF IS ALREADY DOING A MILLION, THEY'RE ALL WORKING FULL-TIME RIGHT NOW. 
          SO, UM, BUT IF I WERE TO SAY ONE THING, LIKE THE AG SUPPORTING BUSINESSES IN THE CITY IS THE THING THAT IS REALLY SUPPORTED, UM, IS REALLY A CONCERN FOR ME, GIVEN THAT WE'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, FARMS OUT IN POINT REYES, UM, GO OUT OF BUSINESS RECENTLY. 
          UM, BIRD FLU NOW HAS HIT REIHART DUCKS MULTIPLE TIMES. 
          LIKE THOSE THINGS NEED TO BE, UM, LIKE, UH, THOSE THINGS PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THE AG SUPPORTING BUSINESSES AS WELL. 
          I DO APPRECIATE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SCH SHRIMP'S IDEAS OF THE FAIR, HAVING GREATER FOCUS ON AG TOO. 
          AND I, I THINK, UH, ALL OF US KEEP THAT IN MIND AND APPRECIATE THE, THE FAIR STAFFS, UM, CONSTANT EFFORT TO, TO, UH, KEEP THAT PRINCIPLE IN MIND AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          COUNCILOR KARNEY. 
          YEAH. 
          WELL, I, I THINK THAT, UM, IT'S, I MEAN IT'S, I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT COMING HERE TONIGHT WITH THE SOLUTIONS. 
          I'M COMING HERE BEING PRESENTED WITH THE PROBLEM AND SAYING, HEY, THIS IS THE PROBLEM. 
          YOU KNOW, I'M NOT, I THINK ALL OF US ARE GENERALISTS ON, ON EVERYTHING. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE SEE A PROBLEM. 
          WE, WE TALK TO STAFF, WE HAVE THE MEETINGS, WE GIVE THE DIRECTION AND FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION TOGETHER. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL THAT I WANNA PROMOTE. 
          SO, I MEAN, I THINK IF, IF YOU'RE ON THE FENCE ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, UM, I MEAN IT WOULD BE, IF, IF IT'S COMING TOGETHER AND FINDING A SOLUTION, WOULD YOU BE ON THE SIDE OF THAT? UM, DEFINITELY ON, IN SUPPORT OF SUPPORTING AG. 
          LIKE I SAID, THE THING THAT I CAN SEE RIGHT NOW THAT'S WITHIN THE CITY, LIKE VERY TANGIBLE WHAT THE CITY CAN DO, I LAID THAT OUT. 
          UM, I'M, WHAT I'M NOT HERE TO DO IS SAY LIKE, GO TRY AND FORM A WORKING GROUP WITH THE COUNTY. 
          LIKE THAT'S THE COUNTY'S JURISDICTION. 
          THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE THE ONES ADOPTING POLICIES IN THE COUNTY. 
          THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE A LOT MORE RESOURCES THAN WE HAVE. 
          UM, WE'VE GOT A TON OF PROBLEMS THAT WE'VE GOTTA SOLVE HERE. 
          UM, AND I WANNA KEEP US FOCUSED ON LIKE THE JURISDICTION THAT WE HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND I, I THINK BETWEEN OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOCUS ON AG SUPPORTING BUSINESSES AND OUR MASTER PLAN OF THE FAIRGROUNDS, WE'VE GOT SOME GOOD NEXUS TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT AG. 
          UM, SO WE'VE GOT, WE CAN GET SOME TRACTION THERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, A FEW YEARS AGO, IT MIGHT BE FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A FARM EXHIBIT, UM, LIKE BIG TRACTORS AND WHAT HAVE YOU AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO AGAIN, IS REACH OUT TO THE JOHN DEERE TRACTOR PEOPLE AND SAY, HAVE A FARM EXHIBIT AND USE THE FAIRGROUNDS. 
          AND THEY USED EVERY PIECE OF GREEN PROPERTY TO SHOWCASE THEIR EQUIPMENT, UH, THE JOHN DEERE. 
          AND THAT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN COME TO MY, MY HEAD RIGHT NOW AT NINE 15. 
          BUT ALSO, WE HAVE DONE SOME GOOD THINGS AND WE'VE HELPED, UM, CLOVER STORE, NETTA EXPAND. 
          WE HAVE BUILT, UM, FARMHOUSE, UH, A FARM WORKERS HOUSING. 
          WE, WE, THERE IS SOME SUCCESSES THAT WE'VE DONE. 
          WE HAVE HELPED THESE, UM, LIKE HUNT AND BARONS, WE ALL GOT TOGETHER, WE ALL MET WITH THEM, WE TALKED TO THE OWNERS ABOUT WHAT THEY WANNA DO IN THE FUTURE. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE DAIRIES ARE GOING OUTTA BUSINESS BECAUSE IT'S TOO HARD TO STAY IN BUSINESS AND MAKE A PROFIT. 
          SO WE ARE DOING THINGS AND I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY EVEN MORE ON THE LIST THAT I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT LIST SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS KNOW WHAT IT IS WE HAVE DONE BECAUSE WE HAVE, UM, BEEN A GREAT PARTNER, AGAIN, THE MAYOR'S WORD OF THE NIGHT PARTNERSHIP WITH AG AND AG BUSINESSES AND PROMOTING, UM, MORE AG, UM, VISUALS AT THE FAIRGROUND. 
          SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THE CITY FOR, UM, 
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HAVING THAT VISION AND DOING THAT, UM, GOING FORWARD. 
          SO I DON'T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT I HAPPEN TO BE ON THE FAIRGROUNDS EVERY DAY AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH REBUILDING, AND IT'S NOT ALL AG RELATED, BUT IT'S AN APPRENTICE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE, UM, HELPING CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING THINGS AND THE FARM, UM, LITTLE, THE DAIRY EXHIBIT OR JUDGING THAT HAPPENED. 
          AND THAT IS WONDERFUL. 
          BUT I DON'T THINK THE COMMUNITY AND THE COUNCIL ALL KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND THERE'S PROBABLY MORE THAT I'M NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I DO WANNA THANK ALL THE STAFF WHO PUT IN ALL THE WORK FOR PULLING THIS ALL TOGETHER, AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. 
          I MEAN, THE LIST IS LEGEND. 
          UM, AND, UM, NOT ONLY FOR SHOWING US ALL THOSE HIGH LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT PARTS, BUT TEASING UP ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE COMING UP SOON, BE THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE SHIFT WE'RE DOING TO ZOOM AND HOW STAFF IS PREPARING US FOR THAT JULY MEETING WHEN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'LL BE BACK IN THERE. 
          THAT AREA OR THE, UH, CHANGES TO PLANNING DEPARTMENT EFFORTS AND THE, THE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA BE TEED UP THERE. 
          ALL THE THINGS THAT THE PUBLIC HAS CONNECTED ON THAT STAFF IS DOING AND, UH, GETTING DONE. 
          AND, UM, I, I THINK, UM, THE GOAL THAT I HAVE TO CLOSE THIS WITH IS, I THINK WE'RE DOING GREAT, BUT WE WANT TO BE GREATER AND WE WANNA BE FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, UM, PLEASE TAKE AWAY TONIGHT'S COUNCIL DIRECTIONS PACKAGE THAT I KNOW YOU'RE COMING BACK WITH A, WITH A PACKAGE FOR US LATER OF THE REAL AND UNREAL. 
          UM, AND COMING BACK WITH BUDGET, WHICH IS SO, SO MUCH ALSO A GOALS PRIORITY STATEMENT. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR BEING IN HERE TONIGHT. 
          AND UM, THAT CLOSES OUR MEETING FOR THE EVENING. 
          YEAH.
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