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lun, 6 de febrero de 2023
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RESUMEN DE REUNIÓNGenerado por IA
Petaluma City Council — 6 de febrero de 2023
Esta fue una reunión conjunta ordinaria del Petaluma City Council y la Petaluma Community Development Successor Agency. La sesión se abrió con una proclamación en honor al Mes de la Historia Negra que reconoció a Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, organización que celebra su 45.° aniversario. Las representantes Gloria Robinson y Faith Ross aceptaron la proclamación y hablaron sobre los programas juveniles de la organización y su donación de documentos históricos a la Petaluma Library.
Comentarios generales del público
Seis personas se dirigieron al concejo sobre temas no incluidos en el orden del día:
Pedro Mora regresó para expresar sus preocupaciones persistentes sobre el campamento Cedar Grove, ubicado cerca de su vivienda en Roca Street. Describió la aparición de nuevas tiendas de campaña próximas a su propiedad y mencionó preocupaciones de seguridad para su familia. Reconoció el contacto del personal municipal, pero indicó que las condiciones estaban empeorando.
Peter Chernoff habló sobre personas encarceladas injustamente, preparación para terremotos, retiros de agua de los bancos y temas ambientales no relacionados, incluidos el Tule Elk en Point Reyes y la agricultura urbana.
Catherine Babowski planteó preocupaciones sobre Harmony Communities, la empresa administradora del parque de casas móviles en 1821 Lakeville Highway. Alegó que la compañía intenta que los residentes registren sus casas móviles de ocupación propia a nombre del parque, que no mantiene adecuadamente la propiedad (incluyendo luminarias de calle averiadas) y que estaciona de manera indebida en los carriles de acceso para bomberos. Preguntó a quién contactar para recibir asistencia.
Ramona Faith, del Petaluma Healthcare District, informó al concejo que Providence tiene la intención de cerrar el Family Birthing Center en Petaluma Valley Hospital, citando falta de cobertura de anestesia y bajo volumen de pacientes. Señaló que el acuerdo de compraventa de activos obliga a Providence a operar el centro al menos hasta diciembre de 2025, y que el cierre sin aprobación de la junta directiva del distrito constituiría un incumplimiento contractual. Agradeció al alcalde por una carta de apoyo y anunció una reunión pública de la junta el 15 de febrero.
Chris Rebelo presentó una actualización sobre la iniciativa Age-Friendly Petaluma, destacando la conclusión de un informe de evaluación de necesidades basado en encuestas a 903 residentes, entrevistas con jefes de departamentos municipales y datos epidemiológicos. Instó a los miembros del concejo a leer el informe e incorporar sus hallazgos en el próximo ciclo presupuestario.
Rick Parker agradeció a Public Works su rápida respuesta ante un problema de alcantarillado y erosión de la orilla del arroyo detrás de su vivienda en Spyglass Road. También animó al concejo a impulsar la expansión del suministro de agua a largo plazo, incluyendo la elevación de las presas de los embalses, reconociendo al mismo tiempo los actuales niveles favorables de agua.
Actualización sobre el campamento Cedar Grove (Informe del City Manager)
La City Manager Peggy Flynn aclaró que Cedar Grove se encuentra predominantemente en terreno público, corrigiendo una suposición planteada durante el debate del concejo. El Assistant City Manager Brian Barnett informó que la ciudad, COTS y Downtown Streets Team realizan actividades de alcance a los residentes del campamento de manera casi diaria, identificando opciones de albergue en el Marriott Center, People's Village y otros recursos del condado. Se planifican labores de limpieza intensificadas y remediación ambiental a lo largo del río durante el mes siguiente. La ciudad también ha colocado contenedores de basura en el lugar, que se vacían una o dos veces por semana. La Councilmember Healey solicitó un mapa que indique qué porciones de Cedar Grove son de propiedad pública y cuáles privada.
Calendario de consentimiento (Puntos 1–4)
El concejo aprobó los cuatro puntos del calendario de consentimiento sin debate, incluyendo las actas de reuniones anteriores, el orden del día tentativo del 27 de febrero, la renovación de la autorización de reuniones por teleconferencia bajo AB 361 y la segunda lectura de la Ordenanza N.° 2837 N.C.S., que aprueba la compra y venta de propiedades de derecho de paso en 276 Corona Road, 1364 y 1368 N. McDowell Blvd. y 745 N. McDowell.
Votación: Propuesta por Healey, secundada por Pocekay. Aprobada 7–0.
Enmienda de zonificación para Labcon North America — 3200 Lakeville Highway y 1677 Fisher Drive
El planificador del proyecto Greg Powell presentó una ordenanza propuesta (primera lectura) para rezonificar la porción sur del terreno de Labcon North America de Planned Community District (PCD) a Business Park (BP), y para retirar la parcela del documento Lakeville Business Park Planned Community Development. La rezonificación consolida dos designaciones de zonificación distintas en lo que ahora es una sola parcela fusionada, lo que permitirá a Labcon construir una nueva instalación de producción y almacenamiento de 175,000 pies cuadrados, coherente en diseño con su edificio existente de 40,000 pies cuadrados en el mismo predio. La Comisión de Planificación recomendó la aprobación por unanimidad el 24 de enero. No se recibieron comentarios públicos sobre este punto.
La Councilmember Kader Thompson preguntó sobre los requisitos de árboles nativos; el personal aclaró que el plan de plantación aprobado por la Comisión de Planificación incrementa de manera sustancial la cantidad de árboles nativos en comparación con lo que se había resumido inicialmente (el informe del personal contenía un error que subestimaba el número de árboles nativos).
Votación: Propuesta por Healey, secundada por Kader Thompson. Aprobada 7–0.
Solicitud de subvención para el Corona Road SMART Station Specific Plan
La planificadora sénior Christina Paul presentó una resolución que autoriza al personal a solicitar hasta $1.2 millones en financiamiento de subvención para planificación de ABAG/MTC, con el fin de desarrollar un plan específico para el Corona Road SMART Station Priority Development Area (PDA). El plan específico establecería normas detalladas de uso de suelo, diseño vial, diseño urbano y desarrollo para el área en torno a la estación SMART planificada en Corona Road, constituyendo una capa de política más detallada que el Plan General. Las solicitudes deben presentarse a finales de febrero, con financiamiento previsto para fines de 2023 y un plazo de tres años para completar el trabajo.
Los miembros del concejo mostraron un amplio entusiasmo. La Councilmember Healey preguntó si la expansión del Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) en esta área podría estructurarse como un cambio neutro neto, incorporando otras áreas para compensar cualquier adición. El personal confirmó que esto se exploraría como parte del proceso del Plan General. La Councilmember Kader Thompson enfatizó la necesidad de abordar el paso elevado de Corona Road y un proyecto CIP relacionado cerca de la oficina de correos en Corona. Los Councilmembers Barnacle y Schribs instaron a una colaboración más estrecha con el Condado de Sonoma, señalando que el elemento de vivienda del condado no identificó prácticamente ningún sitio de vivienda asequible en el área de Petaluma, y que trabajar en conjunto podría generar beneficios mutuos.
El comentarista público Ben Peters instó al concejo a instruir al personal para que se involucre de manera más activa con el condado, señalando que el borrador del elemento de vivienda del condado propone concentrar la vivienda asequible del sur del Condado de Sonoma en Penngrove, en lugar de hacerlo dentro del área de planificación de Petaluma. También señaló que el nodo de tránsito de autobuses de Petaluma no estaba incluido en los límites actuales del PDA.
Votación: Propuesta por Pocekay, secundada por Kader Thompson. Aprobada 7–0.
Nombramientos para el General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC)
El personal presentó los resultados de una encuesta preliminar de elección clasificada enviada por los miembros del concejo antes de la reunión, con el fin de cubrir cinco vacantes en el GPAC generadas por miembros que se habían mudado fuera de la ciudad. Se recibieron veintiún solicitudes (una persona se retiró); un solicitante vive justo fuera de los límites de la ciudad, pero tiene una dirección de Petaluma y fue incluido a discreción del personal.
La encuesta arrojó un empate entre seis candidatos en la cuarta posición, lo que requirió deliberación del concejo. Los seis candidatos con más puntos fueron: Lizzie Wallach (19 pts, respaldada por los 7 miembros del concejo), Brent Newell, Elda Vasquez y, a continuación, un empate a tres bandas entre Kevin Kelly, Sharon Kirk y un sexto candidato.
El concejo debatió si nombrar a cinco o seis miembros. La Councilmember Healey argumentó a favor de nombrar a los seis para ampliar la representación y evitar aparentar que se excluía selectivamente a un candidato. Los Councilmembers Barnacle y Kader Thompson argumentaron a favor de mantener el número en cinco; Barnacle también expresó preocupaciones sobre la metodología de elección clasificada, sugiriendo que la clasificación coordinada por parte de dos miembros podría elevar artificialmente a un candidato. La Councilmember Schribs, señalando tener formación en estadística, coincidió en que la metodología tenía fallas, pero indicó que casi cualquier combinación de cinco candidatos serviría adecuadamente a las necesidades del comité, y animó a los 20 solicitantes —independientemente de si fueran nombrados— a participar activamente mediante comentarios públicos y presentaciones escritas.
Dos personas se presentaron en persona: Sharon Kirk, quien describió 19 años de participación en la defensa de la planificación urbana a través de Petaluma Urban Chat y su deseo de contribuir a elaborar un plan general que aborde el clima, la vivienda y la equidad; y Kevin Kelly, un arquitecto federal recientemente jubilado con experiencia en diseño sostenible y vivienda a gran escala, quien también se vinculó con Urban Chat tras su jubilación. Eric Vasquez participó a través de Zoom en apoyo a su madre, Elda Vasquez, citando sus décadas de trabajo en favor de estudiantes con necesidades especiales y su perspectiva como inmigrante hondureña.
El concejo votó para nombrar a Lizzie Wallach, Brent Newell, Elda Vasquez, Kevin Kelly y Sharon Kirk en el GPAC.
Votación: Propuesta por Barnacle, secundada por Kader Thompson. Aprobada 5–2, con votos en contra de Healey y Nau.
Puntos clave
GPAC integrado: Cinco nuevos miembros fueron nombrados para el General Plan Advisory Committee — Lizzie Wallach, Brent Newell, Elda Vasquez, Kevin Kelly y Sharon Kirk — con la oposición de dos miembros del concejo que querían nombrar a seis para resolver un empate estadístico.
Solicitud de subvención para el Corona Road Specific Plan aprobada: La ciudad solicitará hasta $1.2 millones en fondos regionales de planificación para desarrollar un plan específico detallado para el área del Corona Road SMART Station, sentando potencialmente las bases para un desarrollo orientado al tránsito y posibles ajustes al Urban Growth Boundary.
Expansión de Labcon North America avanza: Una ordenanza de corrección de zonificación (primera lectura) fue aprobada por unanimidad, allanando el camino para una expansión industrial/de oficinas de 175,000 pies cuadrados cerca de Lakeville Highway.
Cierre del servicio de obstetricia en Providence/Petaluma Valley Hospital: Una representante comunitaria advirtió al concejo que el cierre planificado por Providence del Family Birthing Center podría violar su acuerdo contractual con el Petaluma Healthcare District; se fijó una reunión pública de la junta sobre el asunto para el 15 de febrero y se anunció una manifestación comunitaria para ese jueves.
Campamento Cedar Grove: El personal confirmó que el sitio se encuentra principalmente en terreno público y se comprometió a intensificar el alcance, los esfuerzos de colocación en albergues y la limpieza ambiental durante el mes siguiente; el concejo solicitó un mapa de titularidad del terreno.
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Qué ocurrió en esta reunión
Actas de la Reunión Regular del Concejo Municipal/PCDSA del 23 de enero de 2023
Minutes of the January 23, 2023 City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting were adopted as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.
Agenda Tentativa para la Reunión Regular del Concejo Municipal/PCDSA del 27 de febrero de 2023
Tentative Agenda for the February 27, 2023 City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting was adopted as part of the Consent Calendar.
Resolución que Establece los Hallazgos Requeridos y Autoriza al Gerente Municipal a Implementar Reuniones Públicas por Teleconferencia para el Concejo Municipal y Todos los Órganos Subordinados de la Ciudad conforme al Assembly Bill 361, y Determina que Este Asunto No Constituye un "Proyecto" según CEQA
Resolution No. 2023-016 N.C.S. authorizing teleconferenced public meetings pursuant to Assembly Bill 361 was adopted as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.
Adopción (Segunda Lectura) de la Ordenanza No. 2837 N.C.S. que Aprueba el Acuerdo de Compraventa de Derechos de Paso de Bienes Inmuebles, Comúnmente Conocidos como 276 Corona Road (APN 048-080-036), 1364 N. McDowell Blvd. (APN 137-011-016) y 1368 N. McDowell Blvd. (APN 137-011-015), y 745 N. McDowell (APN 048-080-037), y Autoriza al Gerente Municipal a Ejecutar el Acuerdo y Todos los Demás Documentos Necesarios para Completar la Compraventa, y Determina que Esta Acción Está Exenta de CEQA conforme a la Sección 15301 de las Directrices de CEQA (Instalaciones Existentes)
Ordinance No. 2837 N.C.S. approving a purchase and sale agreement for right of ways at four properties (276 Corona Road, 1364 N. McDowell Blvd., 1368 N. McDowell Blvd., and 745 N. McDowell) was adopted on second reading as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.
Introducción de una Ordenanza para Modificar el Mapa de Zonificación de la Ordenanza de Zonificación de Implementación con el Fin de Cambiar la Designación de Zonificación de Distrito de Comunidad Planificada a Parque Empresarial, y para Modificar el Desarrollo de Comunidad Planificada de Lakeville Business Park, en 3200 Lakeville Highway & 1677 Fisher Drive en Representación de Labcon North America, y Determina que Esta Acción Está Exenta de CEQA conforme a las Directrices de CEQA
Greg Powell, Principal Planner, presented the staff report on amending the Zoning Map to change the designation from Planned Community District to Business Park at 3200 Lakeville Highway and 1677 Fisher Drive for Labcon North America. Councilmembers asked questions of staff and received no public comment; Ordinance No. 2838 N.C.S. was introduced on first reading with a 7-0 vote.
Puntos de agenda (7)
Consent Calendar
1Consent CalendarActas de la Reunión Regular del Concejo Municipal/PCDSA del 23 de enero de 2023
Qué ocurrió
Minutes of the January 23, 2023 City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting were adopted as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.2Consent CalendarAgenda Tentativa para la Reunión Regular del Concejo Municipal/PCDSA del 27 de febrero de 2023
Qué ocurrió
Tentative Agenda for the February 27, 2023 City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting was adopted as part of the Consent Calendar.3Consent CalendarResolución que Establece los Hallazgos Requeridos y Autoriza al Gerente Municipal a Implementar Reuniones Públicas por Teleconferencia para el Concejo Municipal y Todos los Órganos Subordinados de la Ciudad conforme al Assembly Bill 361, y Determina que Este Asunto No Constituye un "Proyecto" según CEQA
Qué ocurrió
Resolution No. 2023-016 N.C.S. authorizing teleconferenced public meetings pursuant to Assembly Bill 361 was adopted as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.4Consent CalendarAdopción (Segunda Lectura) de la Ordenanza No. 2837 N.C.S. que Aprueba el Acuerdo de Compraventa de Derechos de Paso de Bienes Inmuebles, Comúnmente Conocidos como 276 Corona Road (APN 048-080-036), 1364 N. McDowell Blvd. (APN 137-011-016) y 1368 N. McDowell Blvd. (APN 137-011-015), y 745 N. McDowell (APN 048-080-037), y Autoriza al Gerente Municipal a Ejecutar el Acuerdo y Todos los Demás Documentos Necesarios para Completar la Compraventa, y Determina que Esta Acción Está Exenta de CEQA conforme a la Sección 15301 de las Directrices de CEQA (Instalaciones Existentes)
Qué ocurrió
Ordinance No. 2837 N.C.S. approving a purchase and sale agreement for right of ways at four properties (276 Corona Road, 1364 N. McDowell Blvd., 1368 N. McDowell Blvd., and 745 N. McDowell) was adopted on second reading as part of the Consent Calendar with no public comment received.Public Hearing
5Public HearingIntroducción de una Ordenanza para Modificar el Mapa de Zonificación de la Ordenanza de Zonificación de Implementación con el Fin de Cambiar la Designación de Zonificación de Distrito de Comunidad Planificada a Parque Empresarial, y para Modificar el Desarrollo de Comunidad Planificada de Lakeville Business Park, en 3200 Lakeville Highway & 1677 Fisher Drive en Representación de Labcon North America, y Determina que Esta Acción Está Exenta de CEQA conforme a las Directrices de CEQA
Qué ocurrió
Greg Powell, Principal Planner, presented the staff report on amending the Zoning Map to change the designation from Planned Community District to Business Park at 3200 Lakeville Highway and 1677 Fisher Drive for Labcon North America. Councilmembers asked questions of staff and received no public comment; Ordinance No. 2838 N.C.S. was introduced on first reading with a 7-0 vote.6Public HearingResolución que Autoriza una Solicitud de Financiamiento mediante Subvención para Desarrollar un Plan Específico para el Área de Desarrollo Prioritario (PDA) de la Estación SMART de Corona Road, y Determina que Esta Acción No Constituye un Proyecto conforme a la Sección 15378 de las Directrices de CEQA
Qué ocurrió
Christina Paul, Principal Planner, presented the staff report on applying for grant funding to develop a Specific Plan for the Corona Road SMART Station Priority Development Area. Councilmembers asked questions of staff, and public commenter Ben Peters spoke; Resolution No. 2023-017 N.C.S. was adopted with a 7-0 vote.7Public HearingResolución que Designa a Residentes de Petaluma para Ocupar Cinco Puestos Vacantes en el Comité Asesor del Plan General (GPAC) para la Actualización del Plan General, y Determina que Esta Acción No Constituye un Proyecto conforme a la Sección 15378(b)(5) de las Directrices de CEQA
Qué ocurrió
Christina Paul, Principal Planner, presented the staff report on appointing five residents to the General Plan Advisory Committee. Three members of the public commented (Eric Vazquez, Sharon Kirk, and Kevin Kelly), and councilmembers deliberated on the top six ranked applicants before appointing Lizzie Wallack, Brent Newell, Elda Vasquez-Izaguirre, Kevin Kelly, and Sharon Kirk; Resolution 2023-018 N.C.S. passed 5-2 with Councilmembers Healy and Nau voting no.Votos adicionales registrados en actas
Approve consent calendar items 1-4
aye 7
Barnacleaye
Cader Thompsonaye
Healeyaye
McDonnellaye
Nowaye
Posakyaye
Schribsaye
Introduction/first reading of ordinance amending zoning map for 3200 Lakeville Highway / 1677 Fisher Drive (labcon North America)
aye 7
Barnacleaye
Cader Thompsonaye
Healeyaye
McDonnellaye
Nowaye
Posakyaye
Schribsaye
Resolution authorizing grant application for Corona Road Smart Station Priority Development Area specific plan
aye 7
Barnacleaye
Cader Thompsonaye
Healeyaye
McDonnellaye
Nowaye
Posakyaye
Schribsaye
Resolution appointing five members to the General Plan Advisory Committee (Wallach, Newell, Vasquez, Kelly, Kirk)
aye 5 · nay 2
Barnacleaye
Cader Thompsonaye
Healeynay
McDonnellaye
Nownay
Posakyaye
Schribsaye
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you like to begin thank you now begin okay um I'd like to call the meeting to order for February 6th so the regular meeting of the Petaluma city council and Petaluma Community Development successor agency and uh invite the translator to provide information on how to participate in Spanish Maria Galvez and Monica aparicio are our host tonight please please introduce uh yes thank you good evening is interpretation interpretations we're ready thank you very much one announcement before we get into the meeting tonight I want to remind council members and and the public we're to provide our preliminary recommendations our straw poll for the top five candidates of our choosing for the general plan advisory committee appointments that will be discussed on item seven as we get down that far in the agenda but council's submitting their straw poll before we begin the meeting it'll be reflected in documents shown in the presentation um and now roll call thank you councilmember Barnacle here vice mayor kator Thompson here councilmember Healey here council member now here council member posakay here council member schribs your mayor McDonnell here all members are present let's stand for the Pledge of Allegiance now we have a moment of silence thank you let's see um I don't know of any requests for agenda changes and deletions to what we're doing tonight so um we've confirmed on that front and moving on and um We Have Tonight a proclamation from the city which I'd like to read out for
CITY OF PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL & PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY (PCDSA) City Hall Council Chamber 11 English Street Petaluma, CA 94952 MINUTES Monday, February 06, 2023 REGULAR SESSION - 6:30 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER • Mayor and Councilmembers to provide City Clerk with preliminary recommendations (top 5 list) for General Plan Advisory Committee appointments to be discussed under Item 7 on the regular agenda.
Black History Month and we have uh two members of our community who will can you may you step forward and receive this Proclamation Faith Ross and Gloria Robinson you can join us and let me just read what this says city of Petaluma Proclamation Black History Month February 2023 whereas Petaluma blacks for Community Development was established in 1978 by a group of concerned black residents to acquaint the community with black culture and history to provide support for new black families moving into the area and to ensure that the black community became a positive part of the larger Petaluma community and whereas Petaluma blacks for Community Development in keeping with their goals and objectives have continuously provided a venue for sharing with the community through an annual black history program Museum exhibits and individual members involvements in various Community organizations and activities the group has continued to provide support for black families throughout through social Gatherings and reaching out to each other and whereas Petaluma blacks for Community Development has continuously supported our youth by making them active participants in the organization encouraging them in their involvement in school and community activities and teaching them to value our black history now therefore be it resolved that I Kevin McDonnell mayor of Petaluma along with members of the city council to hereby acknowledge February 2023 as Black History Month and commend Petaluma
Mayor McDonnell called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. • ROLL CALL PRESENT: Mayor McDonnell, Councilmember Barnacle, Councilmember Cader Thompson, Councilmember Healy, Councilmember Nau, Councilmember Pocekay, Councilmember Shribbs ABSENT: None • PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE • MOMENT OF SILENCE AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (TO CURRENT AGENDA ONLY) None.
blacks for Community Development in their effort to support the community at large and to provide our city with black cultural activities and an awareness of black Heritage thank you very much foreign [Applause] would you like to add something [Music] good afternoon and good afternoon to you all I like to say thank thank the city council oh okay thank you I'd like to thank the city council and our new mayor for for this Proclamation our name is Petaluma blacks for Community Development when we say development we mean develop relationships within the community and I'm happy that this is our 45th and anniversary of sharing black history with the community and I'd like to thank each and every one of you guys that have supported us one city councilman up there Mike has been a part of the city council I mean part of Petaluma Black's activities for years I don't think he missed any of the programs we've had he's always there and I'd like to thank you in public tonight Mike and this is the president of the group Faith Ross and she has something to say did you want me to share the schedule you're going to do it just the schedule the one about the main event for the 45th year to the mayor City Council Members city manager and other City officials thank you for the proclamation we we really appreciate your support and look forward to a continued working relationship with you this is our 45th anniversary of sharing black history and culture with the community as Gloria said earlier our
PROCLAMATIONS • Black History Month, presented to Faith Ross and Gloria Robinson on behalf of Petaluma Blacks for Community Development GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT During General Public Comment, the public is invited to make comments on items of public interest that are within the City Council’s subject matter jurisdiction and that are not listed on the current agenda.
mission has not changed in the 45 years but we spend more time getting involved with the community and having community members join us in our journey and we really appreciate that this year we have turned over to the Petaluma Library many of our documents that tell our history these papers and other items will be archived on the library web page and be available to anyone wishing to see them we are excited about the potential to view our history on the world wide web we have also added to our webpage our youth journal and I really encourage you to go and look at that and see in two years what these students are doing and how much they're participating not only in the events that we do for them teaching them about our history but getting involved in the community how many things how many service projects they've done they they've really just I don't know they've just taken it on I'm surprised and it's not just that they just do our service they they're in basketball they're in baseball they're in soccer they have other things going on too so please go and look at their little history on the web page thank you thank you foreign moving to General Public comment during general public comment The public's invited to make comments on items of public interest that are within the city council's subject matter jurisdiction and that are not listed on the current agenda public comment is limited up to three minutes per person depending on the number of persons wishing to address the
Public comments are limited up to three minutes per person. Depending on the number of persons wishing to address the Council, time will be allocated in equal shares totaling no more than twenty minutes, subject to the Council’s discretion (Cal.
council time will be allocated in equal shares totaling no more than 20 minutes so do we have any online comments mayor McDonnell yes we received five comments prior to the meeting which are posted online with the agenda packet thank you thank you can we check on the internet tonight's Zoom meeting to see if there's public comments at this time I will start a 30-second clock for general public comment members of the public attending and purchasing should bring their speaker cards to the clerk's desk if they have not already done so members of the public attending online should raise their virtual hand or press star 9 if participating by phone speakers are reminded to be resetful in their comments and that this meeting is being translated please pause between sentences for translation and countdown will appear for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers and we have one person with their hand raised thank you very much we have we have four in-house and I think I'm sensing a fifth is and that total six so the time would be three minutes for each speaker and let's start with our Zoom participant first so mayor we have Pedro M uh I Pedro I have started the button for you and you can begin speaking now hi everyone uh this is Pedro Mora from Midtown and the subject at hand is Cedar Grove and two weeks ago I came in here to express my concerns for the safety of our neighborhood the waterways and the community at the location and I want to appreciate all your support on
Gov’t. Code §54954.3(a), Petaluma City Council Rules, Policies and Procedures, III). Ann Ledoux Dan & Maureen Svenson David Brunhofer Rekb Kaila Wood Mayor McDonnell opened General Public Comment. Pedro M.
listening to the issue and I come here today with a few new data points from the weekend and to provide a perspective of how dear and ears to me the situation but also to the safety of our community and how we need to act quickly in the situation um so over the weekend we had new tents set up behind uh house uh 91 Roca uh right next to defense of one of my neighbors I have a six-month-year-old daughter that has my wife is nursing her from the room from the window we can see someone that's Disturbed if you will or Screaming uh that needs some sort of support but I'm concerned for my own safety as he can see into my my window uh while my wife is nursing if I don't close the window um so that the situation continues and my understanding is that folks know it's a priority and there are things taking place to to support but to me the situation is not getting better and it's getting worse from two weeks ago so I come here to us to continue to be a support on the on the agenda and to act swiftly on the matter uh as we're seeing trash collected in the water as we see more tents coming up and as we've seen the the safety of the people there so uh I came here to thank you for for listening and reaching out I I heard from the city assistant manager I also had a chance to to meet with a couple of the council members so I know it's a important matter but I'm also here to to speak on the behalf of the community that we're concerned for our safety and we would love to to have uh actions be
Peter Tscherneff Katherine Bobrowski Ramona Faith 1 Kris Rebillot Rick Parker Mayor McDonnell closed General Public Comment. COUNCIL COMMENT Councilmember Shribbs Councilmember Pocekay Councilmember Nau Vice Mayor Cader Thompson Councilmember Healy Councilmember Barnacle Mayor McDonnell CITY MANAGER COMMENT City Manager, Peggy Flynn CONSENT CALENDAR 1.
quicker thank you Pedro um speaker uh there's uh nobody else onto okay thank you uh let's move to the speakers in the room and the first speaker will be Peter chernoff followed by Catherine brobowski good evening and um I was going to say something really nice about your tie but it's not cheering office chair enough the other mayor had a down pad I'm sure he must have heard it by now anyways black history month so it's funny how we listen to people that we look up to but we don't take it very seriously you know Martin Luther King said if one man's wrongfully incarcerated so are we all and I've written extensively about uh the brother uhmi Abu Jamal is wrongfully incarcerated for 44 years Green Beret surgeon Dr Jeffrey McDonnell 50 years and today is the day that marks the 48th year for Leonard Peltier 48 years so how serious do we take these statements well what should we do about them any action is only as powerful as what it attains and we're the most powerful people in the most powerful State and as I've said to the general public to free the likes of you all as politicians is to shut down the system and then ask of you what needs to be done or tell you what needs to be done so I'd also say that the for getting ready for the uh the earthquake which is on its way that would be very wise wisdom encourages 40 gallons of water per person Dry Goods rice beans seaweed Amy's canned goods and I personally would recommend that you withdraw your money from the banks why every 10 or
Minutes of the City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting of January 23, 2023 2. Tentative Agenda for the City Council/PCDSA Regular Meeting of February 27, 2023 3. Resolution Making Required Findings and Authorizing the City Manager to Implement Teleconferenced Public Meetings for the City Council and All City Subordinate Bodies Pursuant to Assembly Bill 361 and Finding This Item is Not a “Project” Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) 4.
15 17 years the banks pull a funny game on the whole public and everything disappears and everybody gets upset and then we do it all over again and they don't like the waste of Crisis and when this earthquake happens they're going to use that as a way to do more things not very good but we have all the power so I recommend that people as I've said before regarding rents and the PG e that's going way off through the roof simply stop paying and we do it all together and we negotiate with them where we're holding all the cards the taxpayers the taxpayers pay for the National Seashore Parks is that correct the Tulia Tuli elk are still being secretly shot and cold fenced in does this have anything to do with who's buying their milk is it true that Strauss organic Dairy is buying milk from them as organic fed cows I was told that the Strauss people are actually pretty nice owners and the workers like them mioca's vegan Gourmet cheese would say something like cashews takes a lot less water than uh than to feed the cows to get some milk and there's no stealing of the babies but then again there's the carbon footprint of hauling cashews around the world well me as Cactus Pete says Cactus requires no water it would honor Luther Burbank and it's time for us to bring everybody together and start ten thousand Gardens and change this entire equation from where it's been and thank you Peter but your time has expired earthquakes as someone whose name is constantly misstated uh I apologize
particularly for that error and Catherine babowski be next yes my name is Catherine Brunswick below mobile home park and until the one at 1821 Lakeville Highway the uh the so-called owners called Harmony communities has sent every all the residents letters that uh that all the residents who owned their mobile homes to register our mobile homes to the park orders that we own and also too they're trying to do away with rent control over there and that Park is not being maintained we got street lights and out in Avon Park which is a safety issue and I also sent you a drop some pictures or a photo I mean uh letters that we all got and then we're on top of that we're paying over a hundred percent more for our gas so like if one person likes some several residents have only one people will live and we're paying a hundred percent of the same amount that some of them have like 25 to 30 people live in one two moment each and also too this park management by law is supposed to be a legal U.S citizen to be a manager there and I was told by several residents and several neighbors she's not a legal citizen I don't know how true it is but I've heard and also too that Park is not being attained she has her family Parks illegally on the far lanes and they're still parked on the far Lane and the cups won't do anything about it they Park illegally on the Red Zone on Perry Lane that's that's a safety fire issue so who do I give this to to the City attorney or this and like I said there are
Adoption (Second Reading) of Ordinance No. 2837 N.C.S. Approving Purchase and Sale Agreement of Right of Ways of Real Properties, Commonly Known as 276 Corona Road (APN 048-080-036), 1364 N. McDowell Blvd.
trend of the people that own their mobile homes their park owners can harm your communities is trying uh to get the residents the register our mobiles to them and that's illegal because we own them all of them ourselves why should we register our homes to a Harmony community and they have a bad reputation of being Crooks thank you thank you next Ramona Faith followed by Chris robalou good evening and thank you um mayor council members city manager staff thank you for giving me this opportunity I'm really here just to just to talk about the importance of our our Hospital services and our OB Family Birthing Center um Providence did inform the Petaluma healthcare district in December that it intends to close the Family Birthing Center at Petaluma Valley Hospital due to lack of anesthesia coverage Endo volume the acid purchase agreement between NorCal Health Connect with which is a subsidiary of Providence and the district requires that NorCal Health Connect operate petalum Valley Hospital's Family Birthing Center for a minimum of five years which means they need to operate it minimally through December of 2025.
(APN 137-011-016) and 1368 N. McDowell Blvd. (APN 137-011-015), and 745 N. McDowell (APN 048-080-037) and authorizing the City Manager to Execute the Agreement and All Other Documents Necessary to Complete the Purchase and Sale, and Finding This Action is Exempt from CEQA Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 (Existing Facilities) Mayor McDonnell opened public comment; receiving none, he closed public comment.
Motion to adopt the Consent Calendar (Resolution No. 2023-016 N.C.S. authorizing Teleconferenced Public Meetings; Ordinance No. 2837 N.C.S. approving a purchase and sale agreement of right of ways) made by Councilmember Healy, seconded by Councilmember Pocekay.
I want to make sure you're aware that the closure of the Family Birthing Center without the approval of the majority of the Petaluma Health Care District Board of Directors will be a default under this agreement The District board is scheduled to discuss this matter at a regular board meeting next week February 15th at 6 pm which is open to the public more information on how to attend or submit a comment is available on our website which is www.phcd.org I think it's really important to understand that the OB Services is a critical service for this community the hospital is a critical service for our community and they're the voters of this community voted based on a contractual agreement that Providence would operate the Family Birthing Center for a minimum of five years and the hospital for a minimum of 20.
so we are certainly open and willing to meet with Providence work with the Petaluma Health Center work with Community Partners to come up with Solutions we're not we're not focused on a transition plan which is what it was stated in the paper we want to focus on options to keep this this unit in this Hospital thriving so thank you very much for the opportunity to speak and thank you very much for attending the meeting and I want to thank the city of Petaluma I received we received Elise Hempel and myself and the District board received a letter from Peggy and um mayor McDonnell indicating and basically saying we stand by you we want to make sure that um you do whatever you can to hold Providence to the agreement that they um you know we negotiate in good faith all right thank you so much have a nice evening and by the way I'm Ramona faith I'm so sorry from the Petaluma healthcare district bye thank you very much cursory blue followed by Rick Parker [Applause] good evening mayor McDonnell and City Council Members it's great to be here Chris rebelow I am always excited to talk about age friendly Petaluma and that's why I'm here so for those of you who are new to the council some background um the city committed to becoming age friendly back in January 2020 when the council voted to join the AARP network of age-friendly communities I describe age-friendly cities as livable communities that are great places to grow up and grow old in as part of its commitment the city owes AARP
Vote: Carried 7-0 Yes: Mayor McDonnell, Councilmember Barnacle, Councilmember Cader Thompson, Councilmember Healy, Councilmember Nau, Councilmember Pocekay, Councilmember Shribbs No: None Absent: None Recused: None PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION 5.
Introduction of an Ordinance to amend the Zoning Map of the Implementing Zoning Ordinance to Change the Zoning Designation from Planned Community District to Business Park, and to Amend the Lakeville Business Park Planned Community Development, at 3200 Lakeville Highway & 1677 Fisher 2 Drive on Behalf of Labcon North America and Finding this Action is Exempt from CEQA Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Greg Powell, Principal Planner, presented the staff report.
and the community an age-friendly needs assessment and action plan I am proud that we are at the end of the needs assessment process also relieved that we're at the end of the needs assessment process and we are poised to begin the action planning part of the the process my colleague Nancy Frank is in the audience with me I just want to give her credit Nancy does age-friendly Consulting as a professional as a volunteer here in Petaluma she did the Yeomans work on the needs assessment report it's a data-driven analysis of the needs of older adults in Petaluma it includes data from a community survey of 903 people it also includes interviews that we did with City department heads and a group of non-profit leaders it also includes epidemiological and other data about this population and its risks we've been at this for three years covid was a huge challenge but we persevered all of you should have received the report last week I sent it out to you it has also been shared with some stakeholders in the community the report is basically complete it has been approved by the park and rec department and the senior advice advisory committee it just needs formal acceptance by you or the city manager's office please please read the report please think about your priorities and how you want to lend momentum to this process also think about age friendly in terms of the upcoming budget cycle the principles of age friendly align with the city's priorities that's great news age friendly is
Councilmembers asked questions of staff. Mayor McDonnell opened public comment; receiving none, he closed public comment. Motion to Introduce (first reading) Ordinance No. 2838 N.C.S. made by Councilmember Healy, seconded by Vice Mayor Cader Thompson.
one of the lenses along with climate change and social justice that the city is using when it decides how to allocate resources the findings will inform the general plan process and will be shared with the blue zones project Nancy and I will meet with the city manager later this month to design the action planning process there are age friendly projects underway in town the listening benches which is spearheaded by two senior advisory committee members Rayleigh album and Jennifer Laporte is providing a really great service to older adults who have been isolated thank you your time is up okay thank you thank you very much thank you thank you very much and we have Rick Parker next good evening and thank you for your service um Rick Parker I live on Spyglass road with my wife Amy and for about 36 years now we've backed up to Adobe Creek and we've been blessed by the beauty of Petaluma and being able to do that and I just wanted to share a thank you and then some thoughts on water conservation and drinking water in the future and the thank you is over the last two months on the creek behind our house we had a sanitary sewer issue and then during the most recent rains we had a a lot of bank erosion and in both cases I'm pretty sure it was public works came out we called them different folks called not I Clinic I called on one and a neighbor called they came out right away did a great job in the middle of the downpours put rocks in the creek you know to to make sure the banks
Vote: Carried 7-0 Yes: Mayor McDonnell, Councilmember Barnacle, Councilmember Cader Thompson, Councilmember Healy, Councilmember Nau, Councilmember Pocekay, Councilmember Shribbs No: None Absent: None Recused: None 6.
didn't erode further and I just want to thank the city and the department and you guys should know they did a great job you probably hear a lot of the other stuff right so uh thank you on that and then with respect to kind of water issue issues just wanted to we've been blessed by all this rain right and our reservoirs are up to about a hundred percent I think Lake Sonoma is 97 Lake Mendocino is at 115 percent which is great news the city's done and we have I think the community has done a lot of great work on conservation and we should be applauded right on the efforts there I would just encourage the city council in conjunction with the Sonoma County Water Agency the Corps of Engineers and the people that manage you know our water supply and reservoirs to look at the supply side in terms of water there's been very little done on that I think over probably 30 to 50 years and there are a lot of very Creative Solutions available and turning including raising the dams both of which have been talked about Warm Springs Dam and Lake Mendocino I think it's possible the engineers have looked at those kind of things and said it could be done you know we see huge amounts of rain water go by Adobe Creek behind our house every year so I'd just like to encourage you to be looking at that it's just a critical issue obviously for us right we came out of this drought it's looking really great now but we know it's cyclical so I just really like to offer that up this evening and something I
Resolution Authorizing an Application for Grant Funding to Develop a Specific Plan for the Corona Road SMART Station Priority Development Area (PDA) and Finding This Action is Not a Project Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378 Christina Paul, Principal Planner, presented the staff report.
think that we can do very proactively to ensure we have safe clean drinking water as we move forward so thank you and have a great night thank you very much and that was our last speaker for tonight and so we'll close public comment for the evening and move to council comment and tonight for organizing Council comment I'd like to run from my left council member schribs to start and come right across the panel here so please proceed okay thank you um so I was attending uh several activities and meetings weeks I went to the generational housing Workshop which was last Thursday and it's pretty much in line with what's happening on our gpac and our housing element um and I've one of the key points that I learned from that is that every city in the region is dealing with the same issues and and seeking some of the similar Solutions and uh there's a good opportunities for working together across the whole all the cities and I think we're all trying to do the same thing here so that was one of the good things um there is a high need for infill housing high density taller buildings are coming is what's needed financially to make everything work there is a building going up in Santa Rosa that they're going to be doing a pilot project test casing even a smaller tiny units less than 500 square feet Studios and a large blocks of that in a tall building downtown to get more people downtown working close to work and and play um and of course everything is oriented toward Transit near the
Councilmembers asked questions of staff. Mayor McDonnell opened public comment. Ben Peters Mayor McDonnell closed public comment. Motion to adopt Resolution No. 2023-017 N.C.S. made by Councilmember Pocekay, seconded by Vice Mayor Cader Thompson.
city center so uh and everyone is all the cities are heading in the same direction that we are so that that's like we're all working together that's a good thing um I did attend there was a session uh by a um a Ranger with the um Fish and Game and our U.S fish and wildlife I should say and it's about the laws about the bird nesting seasons and there's actually migratory laws that apply to most birds except for domesticated birds and special exotic birds but for most birds are covered by migratory laws and that we need to take care between February 15th and August 31st uh it's nesting season and there's lots of laws we need to at least watch out for the birds and there's a lot more details that were shared with us that the city heard okay um I was at the North Bay Watershed Association um and there is a um working with the rcta and others there on the regional base Regional water and Transit is working on a watershed and water modeling is in development uh they're looking at water power groundwater sanitation flooding serving 60 600 000 people in the entire region and they're also looking at various risks fire flood power loss and so the models are in phase two for the most part and they're moving toward phase three and phase four but it's coming and they're going to have much better analysis about how to deal with water coming in and coming out of the entire region in all its ways so that's also good news folks are working on this very difficulty uh the two things that are
still coming for us is that we're going to continue to do its conservation and that we have to really look at groundwater use and recharge as as a major solution effort um also just this morning my Microsoft will probably tell us more about the serum County Water agencies all the cities were there today at this very large meeting and um it's good news we have water but we are in better shape than most but still California what I hit most is still lots of California because the rivers only hit certain parts lots of California is still hurting especially in some groundwater areas and so the state is still going to be looking at calling this we're still in drought even though locally we've got a good supply of water so um just continuing to conserve so there's some messaging that hopefully will be coming down from that area um I'm working with a relief non-profit working on tree plantings and we finished the phase two McDowell and this Saturday if we want us to join on Lucchesi about 100 trees are going to go into Lake Casey Park this Saturday and everyone is welcome to join in help plant trees there so everybody can use them and have shade at the Casey Park but that's happening this Saturday between nine and about three o'clock to get those in the last session we had over 100 people show up for volunteers so please volunteer for that and um and then I'm also working with students at Casa Grande High School students got grants and we're putting in 50 trees there to help with
Vote: Carried 7-0 Yes: Mayor McDonnell, Councilmember Barnacle, Councilmember Cader Thompson, Councilmember Healy, Councilmember Nau, Councilmember Pocekay, Councilmember Shribbs No: None Absent: None Recused: None 7.
shade and continuing on there so both the school and and the city are working hard to after our 10 000 tree initiative we're plugging away at it over 500 trees this year a continuous effort then um I did also attend the tenant protection Workshop this last Saturday and um mostly attended by by landlords and real estate managers a few tenants did show up and some tenant Advocates did you up and expressed their opinions um hearing very similar to the stories what we've heard here in our Chambers um so but the staff is did a good job I thought of presentation and there's uh we're looking for finding the balance between the rights of both parties and so I'm looking forward to more work on that um and one of the things I did attend the White House had a meeting about tenant protections which I attended by Zoom along with however many thousand also attended but there is now a blueprint for the federal government for tenant protections that looks like it's going to follow along maybe they've used California tenant protections as their model but I read the the blueprint the general principles and processes which is very similar to like our general plan type principles and visions and there's a lot of tenant Protections in there so one of the ideas the outcoming of that is we're working on Just Cause evictions and changing the ordinances looking at that but maybe we wanted to look at all of the tenant protections because that's only a small section of the blueprint by the White House
Resolution Appointing Petaluma Residents to Fill Five Vacant Seats on the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) for the General Plan Update and Finding This Action is Not a Project Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) Christina Paul, Principal Planner, presented the staff report.
Councilmembers asked questions of staff. Mayor McDonnell opened public comment. Eric Vazquez Sharon Kirk Kevin Kelly Mayor McDonnell closed public comment. Christina Paul presented the straw poll results from Councilmembers preliminary votes.
at this point that's being offered they want all the states to get in line with that blueprint because a lot of states are not quite in line um okay that's my report for this last couple weeks thank you very much council member postage thank you um the youth commission uh just starting work on uh sort of uh refocusing their project for this semester um they were first planning to have a Earth Day celebration um at a time when there was some confusion about when uh butter and egg parade was going to be and when that became uh when that was changed to occur on Earth Day um they're they're still I don't think they've come to a complete conclusion yet about whether to move the their Earth Day celebration to a different weekend or to sort of focus on being part of the butter and egg parade in a environmental way to do some to undertake some environmental actions and then to advertise them during a March in the parade so that's the youth commission uh the Continuum of Care board met last month and I am happy to have been elected unanimously the chair for this year although before everyone collapse note that I was the only volunteer for the position and finally I went on the pit count which is the homeless count that HUD requires us to do to be eligible for funding from them and I was involved in doing most of the the West uh just outside of town on the west side a little more to the north but also a good ways to the South and gosh you know I I don't think it's representative that
Councilmembers discussed the top 6 ranked applicants from the straw poll results and deliberated on who to appoint. 3 Motion to adopt Resolution 2023-018 N.C.S., appointing Lizzie Wallack, Brent Newell, Elda Vasquez-Izaguirre, Kevin Kelly, and Sharon Kirk to the General Plan Advisory Committee, made by Councilmember Barnacle, seconded by Vice Mayor Cader Thompson.
we we only found one suspiciously homeless person but again this is an area that's far from downtown and services and such and I actually Karen chamizu was one of my partners for that she is our housing coordinator and so I had a good time at that had a good time I've had a good time at all the relief tree plantings I think that's very important I urge everyone to try to get to one of those at least and even if you think you have some inability to do hard work such as planting trees there's always something to do to help help the program thank you that's all I have council member now well thank you um these two gentlemen also talked about the relief and tree planting I was going to bring it up and my Parks report um but the parks are looking really well because we have new trees planted and it is a really good time planting those trees and the water helps that move that adobe uh the airport I'm happy to say in two years in 2025 they will have paid off their Hangar loan project and the first time I was on the city council they took this loan out so in two years they're going to pay it off and I'm really excited and they're worried about not having any debt I told them I'm sure we can find other things to spend money on um they were a fun group to reunite because I grew up at the airport and um the parks are looking really nice in this wet weather but the um greatest thing is our Float House Down on the river and they are having an event in in February the chocolate and
Vote: Carried 5-2 Yes: Mayor McDonnell, Councilmember Barnacle, Councilmember Cader Thompson, Councilmember Pocekay, Councilmember Shribbs No: Councilmember Healy, Councilmember Nau Absent: None Recused: None ADJOURNMENT Mayor McDonnell adjourned the meeting at 8:54 p.m.
so if you go down there the float house is a real nice asset to our city and the River and we talked about the Petaluma museum at the proclamation that is the Black History Month and it's wonderful the kickoff is Friday night and it runs through March 26th for enslavement to the path of Freedom the power of black resistance and of course we heard it's presented by the Petaluma blacks for Community Development also our Petaluma High School our oldest high school in Petaluma is going to be celebrating 150 years this year so they're looking for anybody who graduated and even parents and grandparents took to contact the high school the vice principal is trying to put something together in the better next day parade and then again for homecoming in September so um that is my report for um the last two weeks wonderful thank you council member cater Thompson um thank you I just want to thank um Ramona faith for speaking on behalf of all the members of our community that wanted to keep an OB Ward at Petaluma Valley Hospital there is going to be a rally on Thursday and it's going to be from actually five from 3 to 5 45 and then at 5 45 the rally will walk around the corner to the Petaluma Health Care district and so this is on North McDowell and Old Redwood Highway so it's going to take place um Thursday and I encourage people to go and actually stay and go to the meeting and speak on this issue because it's very important for a community to have an a viable hospital and an OB Ward
and I was at the league of California cities conference there learned a lot of great information a lot of updates on the laws and what's going on in Sacramento and it was definitely worth attending um also I was at my first scta meeting the Sonoma County Transportation Authority meeting today there's nothing to really report and I'm trying to wrap my arms around it's a what you do with scta it's uh starting with 200 Pages um and it was it was good and I'm looking forward to our next meeting in March but I do want to make just a comment about the G General plan advisory committee process we've received a lot of letters encouraging us to support some people um and I appreciate that but the way I'm going to be determining my choices since I was on the general plan committee I'm looking at where there's there's kind of um voids within the committee today Janice I think we may want to keep that for that item to discuss on that item under Council comments in that under that item when we get to that item it's a good thing to add I can do that good okay um and the other thing is I want to um I'm just really thrilled that um uh Gloria Robinson and Faith Ross for what they do for our community there are two amazing women and what they've done with the youth um it's pretty amazing there's actually videos of their youth group and I encourage people to go online and review it thank you thank you councilmember Healey thank you on in my days on scta many many years ago we were always
focused on getting 101 wide and so now you can shift and focus on something else so you stick around long enough something actually gets accomplished it's amazing um yeah so um several things I was able to attend the annual jazz concert at the petal museum for Petaluma blacks it was a lovely event it had been in Hiatus for a couple of years but it was sold out and I would encourage other folks to try to get there next year it's very inspiring um let's see along with council member postike I participated in the January 7 point in time homeless count and uh we were also given a an area that didn't seem like a very high propensity um area to look for homeless folks but you know when you're out there at oh dark hundred in the morning and you're actually looking for things you you spot things that you've noticed before but never really thought about and so there were several um trailers that appeared to be occupied um on the side street next to Kaiser Permanente um which I'd seen before but never really thought about but there they were so yeah it's a fascinating process um the legal cities governments governance transparency and Labor Relations policy committee met on January 27th I participated along with our city clerk who's a member we had a presentation from Calpers and there were a couple of interesting takeaways from that with the the wacky financial markets the last several months it's it's almost comforting to know that so far into the fiscal year starting July 1 Calpers
overall returns are in the zero to one percent positive range could be a lot worse it's not what we want long term but it's it's could have been quite a train wreck um and they were also talking about how they are essentially doubling the portion of their portfolio committed to private Equity uh up to about 15 percent and there was a long discussion about why that makes sense for them and it it's higher returns it's less liquid but if it's managed properly it helps get get the returns up a little bit higher than if they weren't doing that so that was very interesting um and then there was a discussion of one particular bill and the committee recommended support for ab-37 which is a bill that would um authorize elected officials to use funds in their campaign accounts for Home Security which is kind of an issue in a lot of different communities in our state these days so we'll keep an eye on that one um and those council member schribs noted the water advisory committee did meet this morning Lake Sonoma is at 241 000 acre feet it's water supply pool would be full at 245 000 acre feet and Lake Mendocino is currently over its water supply pool it's over 100 percent and in the pre in the days before this recently adopted forecast informed Reservoir operations methodology or Pharaoh the corps would have already dumped that excess water out of Lake Mendocino but they can keep it there and until and unless they see another atmospheric River approaching and the same thing will happen
with Lake Sonoma because it'll be over 100 of the water supply pool in the very near future and they'll leave it there as opposed to pastures when they just dumped it down the river so that's that's a big step forward and I would say there wasn't a specific discussion on this this morning but um what we're looking at primarily in terms of expanding water supply opportunities in the near term will be pumping excess Russian River water underground and the Santa Rosa Plain has a couple of experimental um well injection sites that are going to be coming forward in the very near future and I think Petaluma Valley and Sonoma Valley will be right in line behind them so our partners at Sonoma water are very active in seeking grant funding so this all doesn't come on our shoulders or the shoulders of our rate pairs so that's and it would serve two purposes I mean if you take excess flows out of the Russian River at Forestville when it's this raging Downstream and put it into the aqueducts and Pub it underground it replenishes the water supply and it also means a little bit less water reaching Guerneville so it's a it's a twofer um and then the other thing I wanted well two other things I wanted to mention out of that one is that um we have a a tricky messaging situation on our hands here I think it's fair to say that this drought is over for now but we know another one's coming at some point in the future we don't know when and on the other hand there are other parts of the state that
are not in as good a shape as we are um but in in order to preserve credibility with with our citizens and our customers we we really can't be telling telling them they still need to be taking Navy showers and doing extraordinary efforts although we want to continue pushing long-term conservation so it's a fine line but I think we can find a way to do that and then the other piece of good news is that the Water Agency is restarting tours for electives and Senior staff of its facilities and if you've never seen um collector six and um the the the temporary Dam the rubber Dam and the fish ladder that you know we're talking about all the time is it's really worth going up there to to see it it's it's it's very worthwhile and I believe there's also relatedly um there will be two Republic tours of the fish hatchery below Lake Sonoma this coming Saturday morning so if that's something you haven't seen before that's that's pretty interesting too and then lastly I wanted to comment on one public commenter's comments on on Cedar Grove and the situation there and it it sounds like it's continuing to get more dire and closer to the existing neighborhood um I'm I would like I would like some feedback from staff it can could be tonight it could be in a memo but um you know when we had the litigation over steamer Landing the injunction never prevented clearing the privately owned property down there and it was only the publicly owned property and and with Cedar Grove my understanding is
the whole thing is privately owned um and and it's extremely unsafe access the only way to get in and out of the place is to run across the railroad tracks and it's not going to be long before there's a really bad accident there and people are going to want to know why we didn't do something about it I don't think it's reasonable for us to expect that the project home key problem uh site coming online in late March early April is going to solve the problem for us so I think there needs to be a more serious discussion about what we should be doing in the near term we're getting started about um Cedar Grove um so anyway that's all I have for tonight thank you okay thank you very much council member barnacle thank you I'll start with um I was going to say congratulations but thank you Dennis for stepping up it's uh certainly one of the more challenging topics that cities are facing right now so thank you um I've had two appointments or two liaison assignments meetings um Sonoma clean power met we elected Deb fudge chair and Linda Hopkins Vice chair um the longest presentation was actually on different types of teleconference public meetings because we now have members that are in Mendocino so they want to be able to have hybrid meetings and that's going to be changing starting in March um we heard from the customer service reps and they've been getting a lot of calls about high bills I think of it's it's pretty much it's pervasive and everywhere but they've actually had very
very few people opt out because Cinema clean power is five percent below PG e right now and a lot of the bills are on the gas side so we're we're dodging a bullet there um they gave an update on the different programs that they um that they have last in the last year they've dispersed about half a million dollars of incentives and about half a million dollars through their zero percent financing program um what was sort of interesting was that 20 of that came in the month of December um with some program changes so um it's a good time I guess too the money's starting to flow um and then the other thing that will be coming before the council I think probably at our next council meeting as a consent calendar item is um you know Sonoma clean power is very focused on geothermal we have one of the biggest geothermal resources in really the the whole country but there's a doe grant that they're participating in and they're asking all the cities to provide letters of support and it's um for a highly water efficient technology that has only been deployed I guess in a few parts of the in the world and so um hopefully we'll be leading the way on that the other liaison assignment was um for The Pedestrian and bicycle advisory committee it was sort of a a modest agenda but we had a presentation from David Ward on the small artwork Mission which is up to twenty five thousand dollars for small art installations um couple of the ones you might have seen the mural and telephone alley the the
mural at the swim center and the kennelware sculpture but they were really just sort of getting some ideas from the P back about how they could be um using public art to sort of help with Place making and slowing down traffic things like that so there's a lot of really creative artistic ideas from the p-back that night and then the other one was we had a presentation from the P back Vision zero ad hoc committee which was from consists of the chair the vice chair and um and Pete gang and they came up with six recommendations from the county of sonomas uh Vision zero action plan um which was to reduce Speed City Wide to 25 miles an hour below um invest in comprehensive city-wide education Implement low-cost quick build projects close gaps and bicycle and pedestrian networks update our city design standards our street design standards and then Implement rapid response there was um I would say an attachment to the rapid response um in particular with some of the fatalities that we've had on um on McDowell recently and just sort of uh feeling like there's a sense of paralysis about what what we can do on that street but um we know it's not going to get better so that was all um yeah I'm looking forward to seeing Folks at the relief tree planting so thanks thank you and in in my activities I was able to attend the Petaluma Library Advisory board meeting this it's a vibrant library system and a lot of it's happening in Petaluma right now I participated in the Safe Streets Petaluma
workshop and I want to thank Safe Streets and and the city for bringing a consultant a nationally known consultant the city threads to uh to Petaluma to help us with getting us over to a more walkable bikeable community and it's an accelerator program so I'm hoping that's exactly the yield of their studies is that we accelerate our efforts and thank all the other Council who participated in that too and I participated in the county tax measure oh for mental health oversight committee uh the gist of it is taxes are rolling in faster than they thought they thought they'd collect 25 million they're collecting 32 million and the oversight board is suggesting that they budget for 32 million and get the money out into where it can do some good um and and uh so as County goes into budgeting we're hoping that that action occurs I was also able to participate in the Petaluma non-profit Summit it was hosted by Petaluma rotary and all of the non-profit organizations in town came and pitched what their organizations were about which in itself is amazing how much good is going on in Petaluma but it was a funding volunteer recruitment opportunity and I think they really succeeded on that front and then I also just wanted to mention that uh for public consumption is that we have a special Workshop coming uh March 13th on Council goals and uh never hurts to think ahead for what we need to be focusing on so we can come informed to that meeting thank you very much let's move to the city
manager's report thank you mayor and good evening Council and Community um over the last two weeks staff have been doing a ton of Outreach on our landlord-tenant protections ordinance meeting with tenant groups and landlord and property owner groups as well as holding two community-wide meetings one was virtual and one was in person Justice last Saturday a survey has gone live and is being pushed out to the community and Ingrid remind me the URL dot org Senate projections cityofpetaluma.org tenant protection thank you and there's also an email landlord it's a long one landlord tenant protections at cityofpetaluma.org but staff is also collecting data from both tenant groups and landlords and we'll be bringing all of that information to council when we meet on March 6th to have a data driven conversation and I'm going to pass it I'm pass an update on Cedar Grove to our assistant city manager but I do want to correct the assumption that it is on mainly private property is actually mainly on public property and we've been working quite extensively out there with all of our Partners to do Outreach and make sure we have wraparound services for the folks that are out there because everybody deserves a home and um Brian if you could give an update on what we'll be doing in the next month yeah just Echo what Peggy said we have been really stepping up our Outreach efforts and it's not just the city it's really in conjunction with the cots and downtown streets team to make sure that
we're talking to every individual out there assessing their needs and identifying available open shelter opportunities whether it's at the Marriott Center at our people's Village or at other shelter options that may be available in the county so we are looking to identify those possibilities for every resident who's currently out there at Cedar Grove and over the next month we will continue that stepped up level of Engagement for folks almost on a daily basis to make sure that we're meeting their needs and you will start to see over the next month some enhanced cleanup efforts more substantial cleanup efforts including as part of the grant that we received some environmental remediation along the river as well as making sure that folks get moved to shelter options if they choose to Avail themselves of those services and so we'll be continuing to work with all of our partners to make sure that those cleanup efforts continue happening and that folks are safe and in the shelter that they can get into so thank you thank you Brian and that'll conclude my comments for this evening thank you I I just have one curiosity they're taking the train North I see dumpsters out there is that part of the city's efforts that get cleanup correct the city did Place those I believe just before the holidays so folks have been utilizing those they get emptied I believe once or twice per week to improve the solid waste disposal out there things that's great and council member Ely yeah no thank you
for that um I would just ask if staff could provide counsel with a map of the site showing what's publicly on and what's privately owned I would appreciate that thank you thank you and uh let's see now we're on to our consent calendar and does anyone on the council have a request of change for the consent calendar then hearing none I would like to suggest that uh now is um time for opening public comment on consent calendar and let's check with our online our early reports in mayor McDonnell we did not receive any comments on the consent calendar prior to the meeting thank you and in our Zoom audience do we have consent calendar comments members of the public attending in person should bring their speaker cards uh to the clerk's desk if they already done so members of the public attending online who wish to speak to an item on the consent calendar should raise their virtual hand or press star nine if participating by phone speakers are reminded to be respectful in their comments and that this meeting is being translated please pause between sentences for translation threats of violence and obscenity are grounds for removal from this meeting a countdown will appear for the convenience of the speakers and viewers your microphone will be muted at the end of the countdown the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown begins please make sure to unmute yourselves when you're invited to do so and we have no public speakers on the zoom wonderful then
let's close public comment bring it back to council council member Healey yeah I would like to move the consent calendar items one through four and council member Posey so that's a motion by Healy in a second by posaking we have a role called the Barnacle yes Cader Thompson yes Healey yes now yes post okay yes shrubs yes McDonnell yes motion passes unanimously okay let's see CR now at public hearings and matters for consideration and as staff comes forward I'll read that the item is it's an introduction first reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map of the implementing zoning ordinance to change the zoning designation from planned Community District Business Park and amend the Lakeville Business Park plan Community Development at 3200 Lakeville Highway 1677 Fisher Drive on behalf of labcon North America and finding this action is exempt from sequel pursuant to SQL guidelines section 15183 and uh let's see I think I'm introducing Greg Powell today to begin the presentation good evening we're still setting up here okay [Laughter] um did I lose the zoom connection yeah I can share the presentation if you'd like okay let's do that give me just a moment I apologize we seem to have lost my zoom connection yeah actually just let me know when to advance the slide paper I guess we don't have to rely on technology always I can just be a human and talk to you guys um good evening mayor McDonnell and um McDonnell's excuse me and members of the city council my name is Greg Powell
and I'm the project planner for the labcon North America Expansion Project and I will present the zoning amendment that relates to what labcon wants at Lakeville Highway as we go on to the next slide and thank you by the way I'm going to try to keep this quick and short but I won't talk too fast that the captioner and the translator can't keep up so the slide that you have now in front of you is the project location and context the project sites surrounded in blue Lakeville Highway abuts it to the North cater Lane to the east Fisher and South McDowell and the Adobe Creek kind of surrounded on the south up and towards the West the area north of Lakeville Highway is a residential neighborhood the area to the south of Lakeville is predominantly industrial but there are pockets of retail at South McDowell and then there's some residential further west next slide please sort of the focus of the amendment that's presented to you tonight is to change the zoning and so this map kind of provides the context for it and this is the general plan of land use map and the site again is shown in blue and as you can see most of the area below Lakeville is BP that's Business Park the areas to the north are residential and the the site is 100 within the BP land use classification next slide please the zoning map is where the difference starts the north part of the site shown in blue is in the BP Zone and the southern portion of the site is in the Lakeville well excuse me it's in the PCD zoning
district and there's a Lakeville Business Park document that sets forth the Zoning for the southern part of the site and some of the parcels to the west and to the South or in the Lakeville Business Park District the site is split zoned but the general plan designation is the same which is BP the city to established the Lakeville Business Park District in 1981 and the intention was to provide a a more straightforward way to develop large industrial areas than what the underlying zoning at that time which was ml would allow next slide thank you so the first thing we always like to talk about when we're doing discretion or legislative acts and planning if we think about sequa so the California Environmental Quality act applies to the action that's presented to the city council tonight and it's useful to think about the background and the Planning Commission met on January 24th about two weeks ago and prior to recommending that the council adopt these amendments and prior to approving the site Planet architecture review for the labcon project they made a SQL determination and just real quick the section of SQL that applies is 15183 and no one needs to be responsible for the section of code but SQL is set up to require different types of environmental review but if a project is found to be consistent with the journal plan and the general plan was adopted by the city and an ER was prepared subsequent development that's consistent with the general plan need not do an additional
environmental review and that applies in this case and for the council's benefit the City prepared an analysis to walk through the different topic areas that are subject to sequa and that's in your attachment number four I'd like to skip to the next slide so the first part it's fun we need to amend the zoning map so you can see that PCD is supposed to be stricken you can't quite tell that and it should replace the zoning with BP and in your staff report and I'll just quickly highlight there's some findings required to change the zoning and to amend the Lakeville PCD to pull this site out of the Lakeville PCD document um one of the first ones is you have to say it's consistent with the general plan the staff report documents how we believe that to be the case we also have to the city also needs to document that the public necessity convenience in general wherefore is pursuit or the Project's consistent with that and we believe that that to be the case next slide all right so this slide shows the Lakeville PCD so you can see the number of the parcels and again the site that's proposed to be changed from Lakeville PCD to the BP zone is shown in blue um the zoning Amendment and for context the Planning Commission needed to make the same findings that the council was asked to do and to make the recommendation to you to adopt the the ordinance and one of the key things to kind of point out is when you change the zoning or you change Lakeville PCD or a PCD District the city needs to
say something about the development that would come after that and the benefit here is that the Planning Commission approved site plan architecture review and that helps help the Planning Commission and helps the council make three of the required findings and one of them is that the development is appropriate for the proposed use and its appropriate in relation to adjacent land and nearby properties one of the other findings is the natural and Scenic qualities of the site and surrounding area would be protected and then finally the site would be developed in a manner that not be detrimental to the public Warfare will be in the best districts of the city and will be keeping with the general intent Spirit of the petal of a general plan well those findings have been made and are detailed in your staff report let's skip to the next slide this is where we talk about the site and sort of what caused the the need to change the zoning in this drawing it shows the existing conditions developments along the north side of the site along Lakeville Highway and that's where labcon North America has a 40 000 square foot Warehouse the zoning boundary is also the boundary between the developed portion of the site and the undeveloped portion of the site and it shows on the slide the areas that are under the BP Zone and the areas that would be but are currently within Lakeville PCD next slide please another great slide to show one of the reasons why the zoning amendment's been requested and
that's the proposed building is shown in brown and the existing buildings are kind of at the top of the slide and Shonen gray and then there's that zoning boundary that splits it in considering the zoning Amendment staff analyze the Lakeville PCD regulations and the BP regulations and found that the project could proceed under either rule set so the real reason for this amendment is just to have one unified set of rules applied to the entire site just it's cleaner to have zoning boundaries aligned with property lines and it just you know facilitates more straightforward development but nonetheless the development would work under either rule set and I'm happy to answer questions about the product description but I'm trying not to go into them too much because that's not under the preview of the city council tonight yeah you'd like me to mention that okay prior to consideration by the Planning Commission there was a the city processed a lot merger originally this site had eight parcels there were seven in the Lakeville PCD and then one in the BP zoning district and those were merged last fall to facilitate this development and that was required because you can't have a building across a property line so normally that would be something that would be done prior to building permit but here it was done before that and mainly it was done before that because the federal funding that's supporting this development required the lot merger to be processed last year let's move on to the
next slide just real quick I just want to kind of and again I can get into detail about the project but I just want to show you the this is an elevation drawing a rendering rather of Fisher Drive view of the proposed project the project that was approved by the Planning Commission as you can see there's Landscaping Planters a little bit of parking and then a 175 000 Square building let's slide on to the next one please this slide shows existing conditions at the top that's the building that the city approved in 2016 and was constructed in 2018 that's where labcon has a warehouse to the bottom is the proposed and the intention with the design is to have the new match the old so that it presents a unified visual image to the community uh next slide you guys aren't expected to read what's on this drawing but I just want to lay out that the ground floor plan shows production areas in blue a warehouse in green and then office entry and bathrooms and whatnot in a brown next slide please this is the second floor more of the same offices on the top floor with a small second floor uh Warehouse to the to the right of the drawing thank you next slide so prior to coming here tonight there was a public notice in the new in the newspaper and then mailed to owners and occupants within one thousand feet of the site so far no public comment was received by staff next slide recap about and the environmental review that was done and this is attachment four the Planning Commission made findings
stating that the project was consistent with sequa and approved the site planner architecture review and made a recommendation to the city council so environmental clearance has been provided by the planning commissions action next slide real quick so the sort of the basis for all that you do when you review something is a general plan and then for this project in particular chapter 19 and chapter 25 address amendments relating to the Lakeville PCD and then the amendments to just change the zoning map and your staff report provides the the analysis for that next slide so in conclusion you know staff recommends that you adopt the ordinance to change the zoning map from PCD to BP and to change the Lakeville PCD to remove this site from that document and with that next slide is my favorite the end if you have any questions I'm here to answer them and thank you thank you and let's bring it up to the council to see if there's any questions on this and seeing no questions from the Council on this except from council member Gator Thompson my question is it's really not on the zoning you know the changing because that is just it makes sense it's more consistent with the entire area but mine is on the landscaping and the lighting on page 17 we had talked about there was 60 non-native trees and 65 native trees and we really wanted to up that to native trees and Native planting and I don't see that change here but that is separate from the zoning I understand that but I'd like it I
think you're asking if they could identify what comments were Planning Commission were Incorporated that followed through to be sure I understand the question um the question is did the Planning Commission require additional native trees when they approved The Spar and was that done okay no it was instead of 60 non-native trees that we would you would have some non-native trees in the front of the building because of root so we weren't saying no to the non-natives but the majority would be certainly above 65 would be native yeah okay in that and if the excuse me and if I think at the Planning Commission meeting I wanted to maybe repeat something the staff report that was originally presented in the packet had incorrect information about the number of native trees and and uh and I'm happy to if you can bear with me while I unfortunately flipped through my staff report to find the tree information but the numbers were Incorrect and they grossly understated the number of natives that were proposed I think that's correct but that's not what it says in here it says in the city council report or online for the Planning Commission well I'm just reading it on page 17.
so page 17 would be the city sorry the Planning Commission report okay so there'd be I think eight percent would be native or 97 trees or what's actually in the drawings okay and 28 non-native or 22 non-native okay yeah sorry took me a moment to get to my numbers I should have looked to the left no that's perfect sorry about that thank you okay um well then let's open our public comment period on this did we receive anything on this online there were no public comments submitted prior to the meeting on this item let's check with our Zoom audience to see if anyone wants to speak on this item members of the public attending in person should bring their speaker cards to the clerk's desk if they have not already done so members of the public attending online who wish to speak to this item should raise a virtual hand or press star 9 if participating by phone speakers are reminded to be respectful in their comments and that this meeting is being translated please pause between sentences for translation threats of violence and obscenity are ground for removal from this meeting a countdown will appear for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers your microphone will be muted at the end of the countdown the speaker the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown begins please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so okay and mayor there are zero Zoom public comments thank you very much and I have no in-person comment cards and so
I'll bring it to close the public comment and bring it back to council councilmember Healey um I will move approval of uh introduction to the ordinance and I'll second that thank you we have a motion from Haley in a second from cater Thompson and now we'll do a roll call vote Barnacle yes kater Thompson yes Healey yes McDonnell yes now yes post okay yes shrimps yes motion passes unanimously okay thank you very much we'll move to our next item and our next item is a resolution authorizing application for grant funding to develop a specific plan for Corona Road Smart Station priority Development Area and finding that this action is not a project pursuant to sequel guideline section 15378 and presenting for this we have Christina Paul our staff I guess good evening mayor and council members I'm Christina Paul Senior planner in the planning department and I am going to quickly walk through the PDA application whether the grant funding PDA application so what we are here to talk about this evening is the possibility that the city has to apply for grant funding to develop a specific plan for the Corona Road Smart Station priority Development Area the priority Development Area program is a program of the association of Bay Area governments and the Metropolitan planning Metropolitan Transportation Commission they combined fairly recently and are offering this grant opportunity that is focused on the priority Development Area program the goals of that program are to increase housing
Supply boost Transit ridership and reduce vehicle miles traveled increase walking biking carpooling and card sharing and retaining and expanding Community assets throughout the pdas that different cities across the region have identified the PVA program is an opportunity for cities and other jurisdictions to identify areas that are adjacent to high quality Transit stops or particular focus in their planning exercises the PDA program by participating in the PDA program Petaluma has the opportunity to apply for grant funding like what we are talking about this evening for both planning and infrastructure Investments a bag has quite a bit of funding that they're Distributing throughout the region and very little of it is going to areas outside of pdas and right now there is a planning Grant availability out for cities to apply for a maximum of 1.2 million dollars to develop or update specific plans Petaluma originally established a priority Development Area around the downtown Smart Station it was titled the Lakeville priority Development Area that was in 2007 That Was Then expanded in and noted in the Smart Station area plan as as was the planned Corona roads Smart Station in 2019 a bag and MTC had an opportunity for cities to identify new priority development areas and to expand existing or expand or edit existing priority development areas and at that time the city expanded the downtown or Lakeville Prairie Development Area and also established the Corona Road Smart Station
priority Development Area these are maps of the two priority development areas the downtown Lakeville PDA is in purple at the bottom of the slide and the Corona Road station is in green you can see that the red circles on it each of these areas delineate a half mile from each of those stations you can see they're not quite circular because the stations themselves are not quite circular at least half of the priority Development Area has to be within that Circle and then the city is allowed to extend beyond those boundaries with the Corona Road station in particular we wanted to allow the city opportunity to look at the whole area around that station and then also the opportunity to do more detailed planning on North McDowell Boulevard out to East Washington where we almost have the two priority development areas meet again this and us to apply for planning funding for these areas as well as infrastructure funding which was a significant consideration in in shaping the shapes of these pdas here's a bit of a closer look at that Corona Road station we are proposing to submit a Grant application to develop a specific plan many of us have been talking quite a bit about the general plan over the course of the last couple of years so we want to be really clear about what a specific plan is and a specific plan as the name might might imply is an opportunity to be more specific than we can be in the general plan the general plan really sets that umbrella policy framework and Direction
and land use and the specific plan allows us to drill down a little bit more and and talk more about what street Dimensions we might be interested in or more Urban Design guidelines that we might want to look at and in this case we would be doing all of those things and we'd be developing specific development standards implementation measures to support whatever Vision the leadership and the community arrive at for this area specific plans generally take between one and two years to complete and I'm happy to answer any other questions I also want to note that specific plans in California are governed by the California government code which like the requirements for a general plan have particular content areas that you need to address including utilities uh zoning SQL Etc foreign excuse me okay please continue talking a little bit more about the project there is a brief articulation of the potential vision for this specific plan area and I really want to emphasize that this is one step in the potential project process to develop a specific plan this first step is just applying for a grant if we did receive funding we would then come back to council like we did with the general plan and say what's the scope that we really want to do here but in general the idea that we have is to work on making this area a complete and livable neighborhood particularly around that new Smart Station to support some of the city's most vulnerable residents and this area is being identified as
having quite a few vulnerable residents as part of the general plan process to address potential flooding and to give the city the opportunity to talk about the future of that area the whole future of the area around the urban growth Foundry Maria I'm sorry am I talking too fast I see that your hand is up our translators hand us up hey Christina yes um you she wants you to slow down a little bit thank you okay sorry about that looking at the timeline for the application the notice of funding availability came out in December of last year the applications are due later this month the abec MTC anticipates dispersing funds towards the end of this year and there's a three-year currently a three-year time Horizon to spend that grant funding in considering City council's goals and priorities as well as the vision document that the general plan advisory committee has put together for the general plan working on supporting the development of a complete neighborhood that is accessible to multiple modes of transportation as well as thinking about a little bit more density around that major Transit hub is of priority across many of the different aspects that these two different vision and goal and priority documents cover in this in the packet we have a proposed resolution a bag and MTC did ask for us to come to city council so that city council could express the support of an application for doing this work to make sure that this is something the city is really interested in and the
key points of that are articulated on this slide here and that is it yeah thank you very much let's bring it back and see if the council has any oh Heather Heinz has her hand raised my apology Heather there's the hand go good evening mayor and council members I just want to emphasize again and I think Christina touched on it but just um for for clarity and transparency what is before the council tonight is just the authorization to apply for the grant should we receive um funding notification we would then come back to the council to talk about next steps with that specific plan an RFP that would go out what that would include similar to what we did with the general plan we did discussion and crafting that RFP before it went out so want to make sure it's very clear that the item before you this evening is just to apply for the grant should we get that award we would then come back to the council to talk about structuring that specific plan and the associated RFP thank you now I'd like to bring it back to the council and see if there's any questions at the council council member Healey thank you um I I realize this doesn't um commit us to extending the urban growth boundary in this area and I also recognize that our current Urban growth boundary ordinance include includes an expansion area in in this this area although it's smaller than what's delineated here but nevertheless it does seem to imply that we're headed in that direction and and I think that gives heartburn to some
people in the community it gives heartburning um but I guess the question is if if we do proceed down this this track are there opportunities as part of our new general plan to make it at least a no net increase in the urban growth boundary that we could pull in areas where that are inside the urban growth boundary now that don't need to be going forward so we can say the net acreage that acreage um within the urban growth boundary Remains the Same or as less even if we do this expansion area thank you Christina you want to take that yeah thank you council member Healey that's certainly a possibility that we could look at and thank you for bringing up the subject we do anticipate that a discussion of the urban growth boundary will also happen as part of the general plan process so this specific planning process would be building off of uh of that conversation and that is a possibility that we look at to not have any net increase of the urban growth boundary yeah thank you other Council questions I don't have questions I have council member Cader Thompson um when the corona Eli specific plan was you know came before the public the biggest problem with that was that it teed into grown Road and that the corona overcrossing was supposed to have a full interchange Crosstown connector there and then politics got in the way so this goes way back and so when I'm seeing the expansion for this particular area we really have to look at the corona over Crossing which I believe there is
we're going to be doing a study through scta for 250 000 for the 101 Crossing on McGregor and at Corona and of course the I believe and city manager can correct me that there's going to be work done at the crossing at Corona where the postal trucks take a left before is that going to be I know there's a CIP project but and I've got Chris bolt on on Zoom if we want to confirm and that Chris there is a CIP project on Corona correct yes area and what does that include a Corona is still being evaluated sorry I'm off camera at the moment um but uh we can get details to you on that but we are evaluating the the post office uh Ingress and egress situation okay I'm glad to hear that um so I you know I think the expansionary is important if we really care about alternative transportation besides cars you need to have high density around um the smart stations and that's why we're looking at specific plans or there's one for downtown and now we're finally coming around you know 30 years later really looking at the bigger picture and so I'm actually very happy that we're going in this direction and you know I know people are fearful of more development because we hear it all the time but the community is not going to stay stagnant and if we really care about alternative transportation we need to have this as a specific plan in the expansion area so I'll make the motion well um first we'll go to public comment but uh we do have other questions on from the council so uh council member
barnacle yeah I'm uh similarly excited about having a specific plan for um this area uh have we engaged Smart in the county in this process at all uh I I don't know for the grant process but I see Christina's hand up so go ahead Christina thanks council member Barnacle we haven't engaged them in this Grant application process that would be something that we would do I mean I I know that we are working with them fairly consistently around the station but that's something that we would do in more depth specifically for this specific plan if we get the grant funding right okay can I add response to that to mayor yes okay um uh council member Barnacle we are also working closely with smart for another Grant opportunity um applying to the affordable housing sustainable communities um they're recently released um notice of funding and that is a something worth working with smart the city and Danko communities and that does involve some improvements around both on McDowell and Corona I'm looking to make good connections both with the future station and with the multi-use path that will be coming through that area as well as um the cities I think it's the McDowell I'm forgetting what the project is called Gina's smart streets it's north MacDowell complete streets complete streets thank you um and so kind of weaving those together so I would anticipate we'll have continued discussion with smart to to make sure all those pieces are talking to each other okay I'll save the rest thanks
thank you very much council member schribs thank you I'd just like to support what Janice said about the uh where Corona and the freeway and McDowell that particular section right in there um but also as we develop this particular area and with the train station and look at the properties around it I'm hoping that we will also include working with the county on the rest of Corona Road because if we want to really extend that out and have transport between us and Penngrove and others that would possibly be a major Corridor on a Corona road heading in a couple different directions so for improvements so I just make sure that this is a specific plan but the entire Corner Road needs to be looked at with the county as as we do this I couldn't concur more I think we're going to be able to skip Council comments tonight having uh jumped so quickly into uh endorsing here but I would like to hear from the public and so let's open the public comment period and have we heard online any comments mayor McDonnell no comments were submitted for this item prior to the meeting thank you and let's talk uh check our Zoom audience members of the public attending online who wish to speak to this item should raise their virtual hand or press star 9 if participating by phone speakers are reminded to be respectful in their comments and that this meeting is being translated please pause between sentences for translation the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown
begins please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so and mayor we do have one online speaker thank you very much and I have no speaker cards in-house and so let's hear from our one Zoom okay all right Ben Peters I am you can unmute yourself and begin great thanks good night everyone I would encourage the council to provide specific direction to staff to engage with the county on this broader topic of the priority Development Area one thing that was interesting in attending the County Planning commission's draft eir on the housing element was the amount of housing proposed in and around Petaluma everyone knows the significant Arena numbers that our county has and so it was very surprising to see the amount of housing proposed for the Petaluma community more specifically that was Zero low-income housing and zero moderate income housing and only one site identified the Petaluma planning area was um I guess I will skip the adjectives for describing the table in comparison to the other communities and so again we need to have a stronger relationship with the county on this topic one example is the area that we're talking about expanding the urban growth boundary could have been a Housing Opportunity site for the county that could have been rezoned as part of their housing element satisfying both the County's readers as well as our desire to do Tod development so again please work harder with the county there are zero sites identified around Petaluma for low or
moderate income housing there's the one site on Bodega Avenue which they're going to build something and then all of Rohnert Park and cotati's housing is going to be located in Penngrove so to councilman shribs comments about that Corridor yeah all of the County housing for southern Sonoma County is going to be in pengrove and with the Builder's remedy those sites are going to be up zoned regardless the last thing I'll say on the priority development areas is that when the maps were being created we omitted our bus station so if you want to get across town you're not going to do so in a priority Development Area that's funded as a part of this so when we get to actually implementing this grant I look forward to planning a bus station which actually makes sense for our community thank you foreign okay well we will close comments bring it back to council here and councilman barnacle yeah um along the lines of what Mr Peter said I was thinking the same thing that um given the intersection and the proximity to the county and Smart's role in all this um it seems our application is going to be much stronger if we're talking about the um the challenges and the opportunities that the county has in the city has with you know Sonoma County is sort of unique in in the abag region with our Urban growth boundaries and yet the county got so much housing um and I've you know I think that um the opportunity for the county in the city to work more collaboratively on housing is [Music] um is
something that's unique in my differentiator application so I'd really I'd um I don't want to direct you to do your jobs on this but I think it's it's going to make for a much stronger application um I support what councilmember Healey said about no net loss um if we can do that I don't know whether we need to we're not going to litigate that tonight I don't think but um I do feel strongly that um I would say that I'm one of the things that I'm really concerned about in the next Arena cycle is what happens to the areas outside of City Limits um with how much housing this that county has to build and I'd love to see smart actually um recognize the vision that we all campaign for back in when we were campaigning for it and build walkable communities and with the county having its development funds for affordable housing it feels like we might be able to you know take some of their housing but how it gets some money for it work on infrastructure money something but if we work collaboratively with the county in this specific plan it seems like there's some good opportunities to um to get some mutual benefits so I'd really um I'd like to see the county and the city the city be the lead and the county and smart at least provide letters of support thanks thank you councilmember Healey so just to follow on that the The Dilemma as I see it here is that if we do expand our Urban growth boundary in this area and allow for housing there it'll be annexed and the only way it can it can
really be developed is with city services which means it needs to be on X so with City water and city sewer um and then the any units to get get built out there would count towards the city's Arena requirements not the counties it's just this funny why the lines are drawn and and yet on the other hand pengrove is kind of a an oddity in that it has a private water company that supplies most of the community with Russian River water and Central Penn Grove is served by a long-term contract by the Petaluma sewer system so you know if you look at all the pieces coming together that's kind of where the county has to go because they've got Water and Sewer Service there and they don't have it anywhere else in the South County so you know I'm not saying that's that's ideal but I think that's why you see the thing the ship's falling the way they are anyway I'll just throw that out there thank you and anyone else I just want to follow up with council member cater Thompson excuse me what council member Healey said so with pengrove they get their water from it is a sewer from the city and the waters from the Russian River because I thought the city provided water no it's it's a private company I believe it's Cal Water that serves Central Penn Grove um and but then Central Penn Grove also um is served by the Petaluma Wastewater Plant also it's the Wastewater Place yeah okay but they get what the cow water if that's the right company uh gets water out of the Russian River from the aqueducts
thank you I'm really excited about this grant because I think good planning is going to make for good outcomes and having somebody else's uh contribution to it's very valuable but I'm also excited that the timeline on this if the funding is not awarded for about a year and then the RFP presentation from staff comes at out a year most of our general Plan update Basics should be well in hand and we will be ready for the specific level and we will be able to the specific claim will be able to be informed by all the update plans that uh that we've you know gotten some consensus on by end of year or so so that's a good point for me and anyone have emotion in mind uh council member posa k I'm in support as well and I would make a motion to authorize the Grant application thank you very much so that's a motion from posa K and a second from Cader Thompson roll call barnacle yes Cader Thompson yes Healey yes McDonnell yes now yes okay yes shrimps yes motion passes unanimously thank you very much uh now we'll move on to our item seven which is uh resolution appointing Petaluma residents to fill five vacant seats up to five vacancies on the general plan advisory committee and for the general Plan update and finding this action is not a project pursuant to SQL guideline section 15378 B5 and um Christina Paul back into the uh Mr Mayor before we jump in could I raise an issue on this um so I know we've all submitted our rankings to the city clerk and we're all waiting for that to get put
up on the screen um but the the staff report um indicated that once that's put up there we might want to mess around with it and not just accept what came out which I think would be the mother of all food fights if we went in that direction so and that we did not do that in my recollection with the appointment of the original gpac we just accepted the original rankings and and went with that so you know without a sight unseen I think it would be preferable if we just go with whatever the rankings are and not try to fuss with them after they get out because I don't know how we would solve that problem let me recap how I understand the the item to go tonight and then tell me if it fits uh the concern you have or you have further comment uh staff will make presentation and um Council will have an opportunity for question on that public comment will occur and at the end of public comment before Council comment we'll post what that straw poll uh is and then after Council comments and discussions on it deliberation on the matter uh if the council feels that the straw poll represents the intentions well enough those five highest ranking from that ranked Choice operation of of the stroppel will go into the resolution and we'll be looking for a motion on resolution with the straw Paul data in if the council feels that it should be amended from the straw poll and different candidates that deliberation can occur and um I will be looking for a motion at that time to rebalot with a you
know a real uh with the intention that that poll will be a real outcome that will be the the top five of that will go into the resolution so um that's kind of preceding things do you want the question now councilmember Barnacle or hold for uh the president the staff presentation I'll hold thanks and was that somewhat clear enough to all parties good passing back to uh Christina Paul please good evening mayor and council members I'm Christina Paul good to see you uh let me go ahead and share my screen we are here this evening to give us an opportunity to appoint five additional members or five back-filled folks to the gpac and I want to go through very quickly what the gpax role is the gpac is the general plan advisory committee it is an ad hoc committee put together by the city council that has an advisory role in helping to craft the general plan documents and ensuring that the general plan is aligned with the city's long-term vision and helping to shape the vision for the general plan and in providing feedback on General plan direction to Planning Commission Anthony Council we also really value the diversity of the gpac folks's experience and the points of view that they can bring to the process gpac meets monthly as it has since it was put together in January and then first convened in March of 2021 that will continue to be the case we anticipate wrapping up the general plan process at the end of this year or in early 2024 and the general plan project manager is the
liaison to this committee in this round of reaching out to Appleton sorry can I just interrupt really quick and remind you we have translators trying to to translate what you're saying so if you can slow down just a little bit thank you sorry um I should be trained as the translators do translate all of our gpac meetings I apologize Monica and rip in this round uh opening applications to serve on the gpac we issued alerts or invitations to apply via the community update via email to our general plan list and to some Community stakeholders we reached out on social media we let the members of the current gpac know that this opportunity was coming up and we also reached out to council and the city commissions committees and boards to invite them to invite folks either on those bodies or who were friends or family or acquaintances to apply we received 21 applications and we had one person withdraw the applications were restricted to folks who live in the city of Petaluma or who have a Petaluma address but are just outside of City Limits we did get one person who lives outside of City Limits but has a Petaluma address and we really are grateful to the folks who entered the applicant pool and are willing to serve the community in this not in substantial way um we are running the process and precisely the way that we did in 2021 with the original gpac appointment process we got quite a few applications rather than appointing two or three folks to a body we're looking we were in the
so we supplied council with some materials to help make decisions in terms of who council members will be supporting that included the applications of each of the folks who are interested in serving as well as an optional gpac worksheet that staff put together indicating the quadrant that the applicants live in names and details some notes on self-declared areas of expertise as tried as folks tried to extract from the applications and then an area that council members could use for scoring applications and trying to track all of the applicants again that material was really optional and it is ultimately up to council to use whatever materials uh you would like including knowledge of some of the applicants to arrive at your rankings um we wanted to note what our applicant pool looks like so we had a slightly different uh geographic distribution of applicants this time we're so glad that folks across the city are interested in serving um and then a diversity of expertise in the applicant pool as well the process to nominate the gpac members is going to go as so Council has submitted some preliminary recommendations for the folks that they would like to serve on a gpac that is in ranked choice so this is a ranked Choice voting exercise or at least a version of ranked Choice voting and we have taken those rankings and assigned points so if somebody was the top choice they got five points if they was if they were the bottom of five they got one point and then we add up all of the
points that folks get across all of the different council members choices uh we're then going to go before we go into the results that we have which are very which are preliminary um we are going to go and let public comment happen as well as any Council questions that arise then we'll present those preliminary results and Council can elect to select the top five or um or have a discussion about a better alternative and I will see the floor for that public comment and any questions that may arise right um one question I'd like you to add to the conversation is um uh we had we had no Mission I think in the in the template can you talk about how we rectified um bringing all applicants in yeah thank you mayor McDonnell we had one applicant that got left out of the packet uh we're very grateful to folks who flagged that for us we're not sure how that happened from an administrative perspective but we made sure to let Council know last week that that person was an applicant and to update our um our attachments for this evening to include her and we really are apologetic for for that and thank you to folks who said hey there's somebody that you're missing thank you very much councilmember barnacle yeah um when we did the first um appointments I was it made it it made more sense to me to do rank choice and I'm not seeing um why we're doing rank Choice with so few and like there's more people voting than there are people to vote like places to fill and it I'm just wondering why we
did rankings instead of just a pure just a regular tally is that it would you yeah would you like me to answer that yes please so my understanding is that this is five people is is more people than usually get appointed in the uh in the rounds of putting people on Planning Commission and that kind of thing and it's a larger applicant pool we typically get not 20 applicants to uh to a particular body and so this is staff's way of helping to make sure that as council member Healey expressed a concern for that there's there's not a super long conversation that we can try to distill people's ideas and prevent present uh and an assimilated opinion for councils uh decision making process council member Cader Thompson some clarification so there's an applicant that lives outside the city limits but has a city address and are is that applicant part of this process I can I can give you a little bit more information if that's helpful council member yes absolutely that'll be helpful thank you certainly so in the last round of gpac applications we did restrict uh applicants to within City Limits only the climate action commission does allow one or two members to have a Petaluma address that live outside of city limits um and we wanted to allow Council to have that option this time around also I want to note that the one person who applied is a person who's involved in agriculture um so that may be something that would be appealing to council members um as a diverse opinion like just want
to follow up the last round we had the same situation but the interpretation was different and that person had to couldn't be on the committee so why is it a change this time we thought that because gpac does not have a legislation that specifies whether or not folks have to have a Petaluma address that this city council made wish to make a different decision if you would like to stick with it then that's also great so if that maybe people didn't realize that so we may have gotten more applicants and so I find that it's I'd hate to change the game now unless we open it back up to determining how many people could be from outside the city limits on this and give them an opportunity to be an applicant I mean I asked our City attorney um does the enabling legislation allow this and is it possible at this time to enter into that kind of uh we don't change we don't have enabling legislation for the gpac so this is all discretionary and I would I actually would correct um Christina I don't believe that that was the issue I believe that and I'm going to just call it out I think Panama moved out of the area but was still owned his house I can't remember what the distinction was but I don't think that he still lived in Petaluma was that correct that is correct yes I believe two or maybe three of um the five vacancies were due to gpac members moving outside of city limits and and outside of the Petaluma area they no longer have Petaluma addresses oh that's clearer but I I don't know if
we need more conversation on the council member Barnacle Panama still has he lives on Eli Road he still has a Petaluma address so that's moved outside of City Limits and not in he moved outside of City Limits but he still has a 94954 address and he's like you know just right outside of town not to that and it's my understanding that it's a temporary move while rebuilding his primary residence so and there's lots of confusion here so confusion maybe we'll and I know we encourage them to apply okay are there any other questions I do I didn't hear what she said that that I'm sure that Panama was encouraged to apply staff did reach out to Panama and encourage him to apply okay well let's go to the public comment uh element of this operation and opening the public comment and checking first with online thank you mayor McDonnell we did receive 37 public comments on this item prior to the meeting those comments are posted online with the agenda packet wonderful thank you and let's check through our Zoom audience members of the public attending online who wish to speak to this item should raise their virtual hand or press star 9 if participating by phone speakers are reminded to be respectful in their comments and that this meeting is being translated please pause between sentences for translation the first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak when the countdown begins please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so and mayor we do not have anybody no
attendees or actually now we do have one we do uh yes I have one thank you and I have one card here so let's start with our Zoom participant all right I have Eric Vasquez Eric you can begin speaking now you can unmute yourself great thank you can everyone hear me yes we can great thank you um good evening council members um I just wanted to make this uh quick and brief um I just wanted to um express my support and I would hope that the city council um feels the same way in uh appointing my mother umire to the gpac um she is a remarkable woman she has had an amazing time living here in Petaluma for the last 25 years as a mother of two um she has been a staunch advocate for my sister when it comes to special needs with my sister being on the autism spectrum disorder she has thought relentlessly against both the old Adobe school district and the Petaluma city school district for advocating for not only her rights but rights of all students that need special needs additionally she's also an immigrant from Honduras so she knows the struggle of what it is to get by in a city that has been well unfortunately predominantly white um so I would love to see someone like her be appointed to this to gpac and to be a voice of someone who is not of a tip Petaluma resident and we hope that the city council may consider the same thing thank you uh mayor there are no more uh comments thank you we have one card for one speaker in the chambers that's for Sharon Kirk uh you may this is your
opportunity thank you good evening council members and mayor my name is Sharon Kirk as Kevin indicated I have submitted my application for the gpac as you know and I'd like to tell you a little bit about myself and introduce myself to some of you who may not know me and tell you a little bit why I think I'd be a good fit for the committee so my husband our daughter and I moved to Petaluma in 1995 from San Francisco and over several years of traveling around the country looking for our forever home we would come up to Petaluma and stay with friends on the weekends and it took us about three years before we had that duh moment and we we said it's Petaluma and uh so we moved here and it's been a wonderful place to raise our kids um we have we've raised both our daughter and our son here and we've been involved in the community every step of the way so from Youth Sports to site committees to other volunteer activities that added to our school environments we've been there and we've been participating 2017 the year our son graduated from high school I joined Petaluma Urban Chat to focus my energy on issues of land use policies and practices Urban Chat as many of you know is an alliance of residents who work to advance Community Education and dialogue about our City's future with a focus on livable sustainable growth and development and transportation patterns for our City's future Urban Chat has been in the Forefront of educating the community on issues and considerations for
developing the new general plan we've hosted 16 plus Forums on these issues just talking about the context for considering the general plan and what we need to think about and I believe my work with Urban Chat has really well prepared me for gpac but beyond my personal interests in urban planning and my work with Urban Chat I my kids have also prepared me for this work as our kids tend to do and our daughter is a millennial our son is a genzir and while they're very close they have very different perspectives about what's important for the future of Petaluma and they have very different perspectives than I have about what I think our city can be I've I've our current General plan was for its time really Visionary in many ways but we have new challenges now including how we're going to deal with carbon neutrality how we're going to get there how we're going to adapt to climate changes that we can't stop and how we're going to house all petalumens in an environmentally conscious way those are just a few of the things I've lived in many different cities and I understand we get the city we want through vision and hard work and as a Committee Member I really want to focus on a vision and a plan that works for all petalumans so thank you for your consideration thank you I have one more card Kevin Kelly good evening and thanks for um taking my application um I've lived here for 19 years um and I came from Washington DC I in July of last year uh July 31st I finally retired from the
I moved in that position I could have lived anywhere because I was the senior architect for a workplace I also worked on the on the federal the courthouses in fact Sacramento I did I worked on that one and I worked on a San Francisco Federal Building Etc so I could have lived anywhere and I chose Petaluma I've been 49 of the 50 states so I know wherever I speak that this is a very very special place and I want to now that I'm retired um I would like to bring my uh interests talents or whatever um and experience I have a lot of experience in housing when I I have 33 years in the government but I have 14 years in the private sector most of which was doing large scale housing as well as when I first got out of school working with a developer in Southern California building cookie cutter houses which was all the rage back then um so I I've I'm very experienced with that I also um was a co-author of the government's sustainability matters and very I don't think there's anybody in the general Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect from Once I came that isn't very passionate and knowledgeable about sustainability it really is the gold standard for the federal government in terms of sustainability so um you know I've been involved I've started being involved with Irvin Chad I was honestly too busy with my last job to get much involved previously but as soon as I was free of the federal government I started working with Dave and and Sharon in the Urban Chat I've also
commented on the hotel Weaver quite a bit I'm fascinated by that project that so I bring a certain perhaps a more architectural um lens to planning but as I said my Master's Degree was in urban Urban Design and thank you sir but your time is expired that's that just about it well thank you okay uh so that will close uh public comment for the evening and the next step I believe is to present the straw poll data am I correct on that staff correct Christina will share our presentation thank you and figuring out how to use zoom I apologize and we'll take a minute to think about that data and think about how public comment our Council comments uh will proceed at that point all right so I will present the results of the preliminary straw poll um all I'm not going to read through these lists um but we will have the results from each of the council members in the record um this is a summary of all of the folks in the applicant pool who got points from Council again Council gave us a list of their top five in ranked order and we assigned points the more the higher you are in the list the more points you get and then we added all of that up to arrive at the ranking so you can see that the top person got 19 points and she was voted for uh by all council members and then you can see the points go down from there one of the surprises of our ranked Choice voting exercise is that we have a tie for fourth place so we have a top six instead of a top five uh and there are a variety of ways
that Council can choose to uh to choose to move forward from there here we have our top not five but six um and I'm happy to go back to any of this you can see that with the current gpac on the left this is our geographic distribution it gets a little bit more even as we look at the whole gpac with those potential top six and then the current gpac um and this is again the list of those top six people and the sum of the points that they received how many council members voted for them which council member has voted for them um and just a few different options that we can make available to council that we have thought of they include doing a re-vote for just those those three folks who are tied to narrow it down to two folks uh the council could elect to appoint six new members or there is a possibility of a full re-ranking official vote so we will leave that conversation to council okay um I think you have a few slides that are going to be of interest to to council to see repeatedly the ranked value and the uh how many votes value so I hope you're prepared to toggle back and forth between those but now I'd like to take Council comment and dialogue and I'll start with council member barnacle yeah can you put the slide back up please of the the results I love the results I'm sorry I'm trying to go backwards uh but the choices between the ranked Choice fund or the uh the one bill the one before it I think it was the one before that great thanks and we wanted to take a peek so one
of the issues with ranked choice right now is that that I'm seeing is that um someone that can get two votes makes their way up into the top four and um that doesn't seem um like the intention here I mean there's a there's a chance I mean didn't happen but there's a chance that someone who got um you know five votes could get five points and um be completely at the bottom so if I were to pick five I would pick Kevin Kelly and Sharon Kirk and add them because they also have the most Council support in terms of number of people who voted for them um and in terms of just sharing my personal opinion I've worked with Sharon some um extremely insightful and I think um should be a huge asset to the gpac so I would um strongly recommend putting Sharon on the gpac can I ask that you make a little bit of a statement that you were in favor so I would propose that I would propose I guess I'll I'll make a motion that we put Lizzie Wallach Brent Newell Elda Vasquez um Kevin Kelly and Sharon Kirk as the five people I think before pursuing the motion well I have a little bit of discussion across the table and bring back thank you council member Healey thank you I think in light of the results I would support appointing the top six individuals and just expanding with Group by one to avoid um and with all due respect to councilmember Barnacle I think you're just trying to carve off the person who doesn't agree with you at illogically and I think we want as broad a representation of the
community as we can in this this gpac even if they don't agree with one of us in particular so I think the top six would achieve that result and i would support that thank you councilmember Cader Thompson and I will support um Brian Barnacle on his comment and I think we should we we're going for five and we should stick with five and I would go for um also Lizzie Wallach Brent Newell Alda Kevin Kelly and Sharon Kirk thank you anyone wish to comment on this event um I will um council member now I agree with um council member Healey and we should do this top six and leave it at that thank you um council member schribs um I do have a uh one of my certifications is in statistics and I'm looking at this style of ranked choicing and I've submitted sort of like a little bit of a gripe about the process of of the mathematics behind this and to simplify it basically you have seven people making five votes total of 35 votes for a total of 20 people spread over 20.
and as far as volume of votes and then especially when they get ranked and so we do have cases here this is a case in point where it might have been only just two people ranking at the top to create a 10 versus maybe someone that got on four or five as ones and twos don't even make it up to ten um so there's issues with with volume of votes as well as how the ranking is done usually in ranked voting if I can express that a little bit better when we vote ranked voting it's a in our elections as a possibility you would have maybe four candidates for one position you would rank all four one two three all of them down four through one and then for the one person so it'd be a lot more numbers a lot more ranking um volume for the positions available so um so mathematically it would have been better to rank all 20 20 all the way down to one right down the list and that would have been a more fair process so I'm not particularly happy with this process but I'm going to go with what we need to do which is get down to five people with the process that we do have so um at this point because there's besides the six but a 10 is not going to be that statistically different from a seven or a six looking at it so so I'm a little worried about the about how to pick and choose at this point if we have to get down to just five I think the group I need to express because I was on gpac as well as was council member Janice Cader Thompson and there's some holes that were missing that I have
experienced that that higher needs in certain areas than other things and the other thing I want to make sure um and that was not expressed in the actual Statin of data that comes out is that actual needs what what gpac actually I think would really be needed um the other thing I want to mention is um that all 20 candidates when I found out is that the gpac is an advisory committee and as an advisory committee they are giving advice to the consultants and to the planners there's lots of planners there there in both of those consultants and the Planning Group and there's lots of Architects in the group there's folks that do climate that do that have that support open space um so that those areas are pretty well covered and there's other areas not so covered diversity Equity business legal Health art those things are kind of missing and and I was hoping that there'd be more in those areas that would be lifted up getting in um but one thing about the council uh the advisory committee the way it works is that everybody gets a chance to have their say and talk and give feedback for what's happening now we're gone from input now we're going to more of an analysis and then what could happen so the there's a shift in what's needed from what the past to what we have in the near future because of the process is going down this road path that's going on and what's really needed is for all 20 people that have applied to participate and that's what I'm going to recommend we may come down
to five and I'm going to recommend that but I want to emphasize all 20 people have qualities experience um knowledge and I would encourage all because we have as an example um one person on this list Susan Kirks who didn't make on this list comes to every meeting came to everyone of the workshop that we had the work group meetings gave input at the public comment area was written numbers of letters and has tremendous input into what is there and she's had as much influence as the members that are actually on the committee so I'm going to highly recommend this folks with planning experience who are already participate quite well with lots of of different governments I would highly recommend and encourage every one of you of the applicants to join in because between public comment on front comment on every single item that's going through it plus the ability to write your comments and letters to edit and review and come back this process is coming we need all 20 people to be participants equal participants because it's all Zoom and you all can participate so even though we're picking five and and basically almost any five would actually work uh to make it to fill it out but uh that's so I always want to make sure I want to really encourage all 20 to become participants that doesn't not depending on oh I'm on the committee not on the committee there's not a real distinction in the actual functionality of this operation so I want to make that clear I really appreciate you
bringing up that kind of community participation that's I mean that's a real positive message for the community and um and and the point about voting for five I think I need to check with our City attorney on this but um we can motion six tonight it's allowable thing and I have to tell a little story from when we picked the gpac when we picked the gpack I think we were looking to try and have 15 members and uh we had a little problem that we we didn't feel the equity was quite right into certain concerns and you know and now if you look at our social and environmental Equity that's the strongest existing traits in there so we've really beefed that up and tried and those are people continuing to engage but 15 was our number and we weren't happy as a council and we said well every council person gets to add one and six of the council people added one and we came up with 21.
which is what I think adding six tonight would give us and and I appreciate you saying we should have open communication and if it's a matter of one for whatever Reasons I'm kind of okay with expanding the number two to six so that would be my comment for the evening and council member Barnacle yeah um appreciate the the point about bringing politics up here to the diocese Mr Healy um my issue is that what appears to have happened is that two people got together and picked um one person to be the number one and that immediately Rises them up and as a from a statistics standpoint that's what I was asking about when I was um asking why we were doing ranked instead of just um pure votes because Mr chestnut with seven would actually be up there and Mr Lloyd would not and we would have six people with um with those and if the number of votes still matters um instead of people being able to get together and skew the results then whether we have five or whether we have six um wouldn't matter so I'm going to stick with five that's my I've made a motion and I'm looking for a second and I'll second that that's that's correct we have Emotion by Barnacle to take um Wallick Newell Vasquez is a Gary Kevin Kelly Sharon Kirk and the second by Cader Thompson and and the motion is to put those names in the resolution so I would like you to say you're motioning the resolution with those five names I'm making a motion to appoint Lizzy Wallach Brent Newell Elda Vasquez izigary Kevin Kelly and
Sharon Kirk to the general plan advisory committee and putting them in the resolution and we'll need a second we have the same group making the motion in second and and um any comment no comment we'll and we'd like a roll call vote barnacle yes Cader Thompson yes Healey no McDonnell yes no no post okay yes shrubs yes motion passes five to two with Haley and now loading now okay um and believe that ends our business for the evening thank you very much everyone who stayed to the end and thank you Council hmm