Agenda packet — Cotati City Council, April 25, 2023

AGENDA

JOINT MEETING OF THE COTATI CITY COUNCIL AND THE SUCCESSOR

AGENCY TO THE FORMER COTATI COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY City Council Chamber, City Hall 201 W. Sierra Avenue
Tuesday April 25, 2023
6:00 PM REGULAR MEETING
The Cotati City Council welcomes you to its meetings that are generally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. Your interest and participation are encouraged and appreciated.

City Council meeting agendas, minutes, and recordings are posted on the City’s Meeting Portal at www.cotaticity.org.

For questions about the agenda of to receive the City Council agenda by email, contact the Deputy City Clerk at [email protected] or (707) 665-3622.

Cotati City Council Meetings will be conducted in person in the Council Chamber, and, as a courtesy, participate virtually through Zoom Online video conferencing, and will be available to watch or listen in the following ways:

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2. Cable T.V. Broadcast, local channel 28
Members of the public can participate in the meeting online by clicking the link below:
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Attendees may join the meeting any time after 5:45pm. Attendees will be muted until they are called upon for Public Comment. To make a public comment, use the “raise hand” icon on your smart device or desktop computer, or dial *9 if you are using just your telephone. Please listen carefully for the Mayor or City Clerk to address you by name (or phone number) and for the audible Zoom notification that you have been unmuted. Once you begin your public comment, your three minutes will begin.

If you would prefer to submit your public comment in writing, please email your comments to [email protected]. If you are commenting on a specific agenda item or items, please state the agenda item number(s) in the subject line of the email. All comments received via email will be provided to the City Council or Planning Commission in writing and included as part of the record of the meeting. ###
Notice is hereby given that Council may discuss and/or take action on any or all of the items listed on this agenda.

Any writings or documents provided to a majority of the Cotati City Council regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for inspection in the online Meeting Portal at www.cotaticity.org and in the City Manager’s office located at 201 West Sierra Ave, Cotati, CA during the City’s posted business hours.

Disabled Accommodations: Upon request, this agenda will be made available in appropriate formats to persons with disabilities as required by Section 202 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Any person with a disability who Cotati City Council Agenda April 25, 2023

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requires a modification or accommodation in order to participate in a meeting should contact the Deputy City Clerk at [email protected], or (707) 665-3622, at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.

Closed Captioning/Live Transcription: This meeting will be transcribed live via the Zoom platform. Zoom attendees running Zoom version 5.0.2 or higher will be able to see the transcription at the bottom of their personal Zoom screen.

Learn more at https://support.zoom.us by searching “closed captions.” Rules of Decorum: To avoid distraction, the following meeting etiquette shall be enforced. • Silence electronic devices, including cell phones.
• Audience members are advised to keep conversations to a minimum of conduct them outside the building. • Photographs or video recordings using tri-pods or other means that would be distracting are to be taken only from the designated media area.
• The Presiding Officer shall request that the audience withhold expressions of support or opposition for speakers in the interest of time and to encourage the full expression of differing views. (City Council Policy 2021-01 III.B.1.)
Public Comment (Action Items): Public comment on any one agenda item where the City Council will be taking some action is limited to no more than three (3) minutes per person. Action items are typically designated on the agenda title.

Public Comment (Non-Action Items): Public comment on non-action agenda items shall be received during the designated portion of the agenda. Comments shall be limited to no more than three (3) minutes for all non-action agenda items.

Waiver Warning: If you challenge decisions/direction of the City Council of the City of Cotati in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at public hearing(s) described in this agenda, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Cotati at, or prior to, the public hearing(s).

City Council meetings are conducted according to City Council Policy 2021-01: City Council Rules. This policy is available for inspection in the online Meeting Portal at www.cotaticity.org and in the City Manager’s office located at 201 West Sierra Ave, Cotati, CA, during the City’s posted business hours.

Those wishing to address the Council are asked to complete a speaker card and give it to the Deputy City Clerk. When you are called, step to the podium and state your name and address for the record. Persons wishing to address the Council are not required to identify themselves or complete a speaker card; (Gov’t Code § 54953.3); however, this information assists the Mayor by ensuring that all persons wishing to address the Council are recognized and it assists the Deputy City Clerk in preparing the City Council meeting minutes.

1. CALL TO ORDER
Members of the public may participate in the meeting at 201 W. Sierra Ave, or online by pasting the following link into your web browser:
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2. ROLL CALL

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND NOTICE OF WAIVING OF READING OF ALL

RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES INTRODUCED AND/OR ADOPTED

UNDER THIS AGENDA (ACTION)
A. COTATI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING - APR 11, 2023 6:00 PM

5. ANNOUNCEMENTS
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A. Meeting Orientation for New Attendees/Viewers. In conformance with the Brown Act and the adopted City Council Rules, the meeting agenda includes items labeled as Action Items, where the City Council will consider the item and citizens are afforded the opportunity to provide comments relevant to the item being discussed. The meeting agenda also includes a Citizens Business item, which is the designated place on the agenda where citizens have the right to say whatever they wish.

The City Council may, or may not, choose to respond to comments, as the Government Code allows. However, if the City Council declines to respond, it should not be perceived as giving credence to or agreeing with any statements that the City Council or its members believe are incorrect, misinformed or purposefully biased.

B. Measure S supports police services, a variety of recreation programs for all ages, and the maintenance of our streets, parks, and public buildings. See details on the web at cotaticity.org
C. Citizens interested in receiving City of Cotati community alerts via text or email are encouraged to sign up with Nixle by downloading the Everbridge app from the IOS or Android app store or by texting your zip code (94931) to 888777.

D. Like always, we love to hear from you, so please feel free to contact the City at 707- 792-4600 or [email protected]. If you have a non-emergency issue after normal business hours, you can contact us at 707-792-4611 and of course if you have an emergency, please contact 9-1-1. Continue to look for updates on the City's website and social media channels available on Facebook, Instagram, and Nixle.

6. PROCLAMATIONS
A. PROCLAMATION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COTATI RECOGNIZING APRIL 2023 AS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH

7. APPROVAL OF FINAL AGENDA (ACTION)

8. CITIZEN BUSINESS AND PUBLIC COMMENT FOR CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS
Any member of the public wishing to speak to the Council on any item(s) listed on the Consent Calendar or any matter(s) not listed on the agenda that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council may do so at this time. Pursuant to the Brown Act, the Council is not allowed to consider issues or take action on any item not listed on the agenda during this period. Pursuant to City Council Policy 2021-01, comments of any member of the public are normally restricted to a total of three (3) minutes in length per person for matters not on the agenda and a total of three (3) minutes per person in length for any and all items on the Consent Calendar.

The Mayor may extend the time limit for a reasonable time where a disability accommodation has been requested.

9. CONSENT CALENDAR (ACTION)
A. SUPPORT FOR MAYORS MONARCH BUTTERFLY PLEDGE
It is recommended that the City Council adopt a motion authorizing the Mayor to submit a pledge to take specified actions this year to support the Monarch Butterfly.

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10. DIRECTION ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

11. REGULAR AGENDA (ACTION)
A. APPOINTMENT OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONER
It is recommended that the Mayor nominate a Cotati representative on the Sonoma County Library Commission and that the City Council adopt a motion to approve the Mayor's nomination.

B. ANNUAL POLICE CHIEF REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
It is recommended that the City Council receive and discuss the annual police chief report to the community for 2022.

C. COUNCIL WORKSHOP ON POTENTIAL REACH CODE RELATED TO

ALL-ELECTRIC BUILDINGS AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
It is recommended by the Community Development Department that the City Council conduct a workshop and provide direction to staff on potential all-electric building and electric vehicle charging reach code amendments to the Building Code.

12. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT

13. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER REPORTS

14. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-ACTION AGENDA ITEMS

15. INFORMATION RECEIVED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS POSTED
A. INFORMATION RECEIVED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS POSTED
Information or written comments pertaining to this meeting, and which was received after the agenda was posted, is attached below.

16. ADJOURNMENT
Certification of Posting of the Notice: I declare under penalty of perjury that I am employed by the City of Cotati and that I posted this notice on the City's website, bulletin boards of City Hall, Veterans' Memorial Building and the SMART Train Depot, on or before April 21, 2023.
/s/ Kevin Patterson, Deputy City Clerk

MINUTES

JOINT MEETING OF THE COTATI CITY COUNCIL AND THE SUCCESSOR

AGENCY TO THE FORMER COTATI COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY City Council Chamber, City Hall 201 W. Sierra Avenue
Tuesday April 11, 2023
6:00 PM REGULAR MEETING

1. CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Harvey called the meeting to order at 6:00pm.

2. ROLL CALL
Attendee Name Title Status
Susan Harvey Mayor Present
Laura Sparks Vice Mayor Present
Ben Ford Councilmember Present
Sylvia Lemus Councilmember Present
Kay Rivers Councilmember Present
Staff present: City Attorney John Bakker, City Manager Damien O’Bid, Deputy City Clerk Kevin Patterson, Police Chief Michael Parish, Director of Public Works/City Engineer Craig Scott, Director of Administrative Services Angela Courter, Director of Community Development Noah Housh, Associate Planner Autumn Buss

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND NOTICE OF WAIVING OF READING OF ALL

RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES INTRODUCED AND/OR ADOPTED

UNDER THIS AGENDA (ACTION)
A. COTATI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING - MAR 28, 2023 6:00 PM No public comment.

RESULT: ACCEPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
SECONDER: Laura Sparks, Vice Mayor
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers

5. ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Minutes Acceptance: Minutes of Apr 11, 2023 6:00 PM (APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND NOTICE OF WAIVING OF READING OF ALL Cotati City Council Minutes April 11, 2023

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6. APPROVAL OF FINAL AGENDA (ACTION)
No changes.

No public comment.

7. CITIZEN BUSINESS AND PUBLIC COMMENT FOR CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS
No public comment.

8. CONSENT CALENDAR (ACTION)
Councilmember Rivers requested to pull Item 8C.

RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Sylvia Lemus, Councilmember
SECONDER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
A. RESCINDING PROCLAMATION OF THE COVID-19 LOCAL

EMERGENCY

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B. CITY COUNCIL TEAM BUILDING FINAL REPORT
D. 2022 GENERAL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ANNUAL PROGRESS
REPORT
8C. AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE CIVIC CENTER PAINTING

PROJECT
RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
SECONDER: Laura Sparks, Vice Mayor
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
Presentation by City Manager Damien O'Bid.

Councilmembers comment.

No public comment.

9. DIRECTION ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
Councilmember Rivers requested a future agenda item on how contracts are awarded and the process for bidding on projects.

Vice Mayor Sparks requested a future agenda item on the Mayor's pledge for Monarch Butterflies.

10. REGULAR AGENDA (ACTION)
A. SONOMA COUNTY POLICE OFFICER OF THE YEAR
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Sylvia Lemus, Councilmember
SECONDER: Kay Rivers, Councilmember
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
Presentation by Chief of Police Michael Parish, Ray Carlson of Exchange Club, and County Supervisor David Rabbit, awarding Officer Ryan Reinke as the Sonoma County Peace Officer of the year.

Councilmembers comment.

No public comment.

B. APPOINTMENT OF PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS

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RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
SECONDER: Laura Sparks, Vice Mayor
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
Presentation by City Manager Damien O'Bid.

Councilmembers comment.

Public Comment:

Kimberlyn Moffet of Cotati
Ryan Long of Cotati
The Council voted to approve Mayor Harvey's nomination of Kimberlyn Moffet, and Councilmember Ford's nomination of Ryan Long, to the Planning Commission.

C. PARKLETS AND OUTDOOR DINING PROGRAM PRESENTATION AND

ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING PUBLIC PARKLET SPACE

RENTAL FEE
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
SECONDER: Laura Sparks, Vice Mayor
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
Presentation by Associate Planner Autumn Buss.

Councilmembers comment.

No public comment.

Council provided input that staff could use discretion to allow a parklet to occupy up to three diagonal parking spaces, provided this does not exceed half of the available parking at the business frontage.

D. LETTER OF OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED SENATE BILL 423
RESULT: APPROVED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Ben Ford, Councilmember
SECONDER: Laura Sparks, Vice Mayor
AYES: Harvey, Sparks, Ford, Lemus, Rivers
Presentation by City Manager Damien O'Bid.

Councilmembers comment.

Public Comment:

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Minutes Acceptance: Minutes of Apr 11, 2023 6:00 PM (APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND NOTICE OF WAIVING OF READING OF ALL Cotati City Council Minutes April 11, 2023

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Unnamed Speaker of Los Angeles
Council deliberated the contents of the included letter, and directed staff to make changes including:
· Clarification on waivers and concessions
· Ensure that by-right is required to build at the affordability levels required by the community to achieve their RHNA goals
· This is too blunt of a tool; needs to recognize cities that try to build housing and are not being obstenant
· State needs to provide a funding source for lower income housing, particularly very low and extremely low
E. NOMINATIONS FOR REGIONAL COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES ON

BEHALF OF SONOMA COUNTY MAYORS' AND COUNCILMEMBERS'

ASSOCIATION AND CITY SELECTION COMMITTEE
Presentation by City Manager Damien O'Bid.

Councilmembers comment.

No public comment.

Council discussed the letters of interest received and provided direction to Mayor Harvey on candidates to support at the April 20th meeting of the Mayors and Councilmembers of Sonoma County, and gave discretion power to vote as needed for floor nominations and/or changes to the candidate list.

11. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT
Report by City Manager Damien O'Bid.

12. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER REPORTS
Councilmembers report out on local and regional events and meetings.

13. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-ACTION AGENDA ITEMS
Public comment:

Theresa Eaton of Cotati

14. INFORMATION RECEIVED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS POSTED
A. INFORMATION RECEIVED AFTER THE AGENDA WAS POSTED

15. ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Harvey adjourned the meeting at 8:23pm.

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Minutes Acceptance: Minutes of Apr 11, 2023 6:00 PM (APPROVAL OF MINUTES AND NOTICE OF WAIVING OF READING OF ALL Cotati City Council Minutes April 11, 2023

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/s/ Kevin Patterson, Deputy City Clerk

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Agenda Staff Report
Item type: CONSENT CALENDAR (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: Support for Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge
Date: April 25, 2023
Written by: Damien O'Bid, City Manager
Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Council adopt a motion authorizing the Mayor to submit a pledge to take specified actions this year to support the Monarch Butterfly.

Background
The monarch butterfly is an iconic species whose eastern populations have declined by 90% and western populations by 99% in recent years. Through the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge, U.S. cities, municipalities, and other communities can commit to create habitat for the monarch butterfly and pollinators, and to educate residents about how they can make a difference at home and in their community. In 2022, Mayor Landman pledged the city to take actions to provide Monarch Butterfly habitat.

Analysis/Discussion
To accomplish the pledge this year, staff must consider pollinators and milkweed whenever any new landscaping on city properties is going on. Additionally, look for opportunities to include these plants in development landscape plans. For goal 3, we would meet this through the planting planned in Pocket Park.

Mayors Goals

1. Engage with developers, planners, and landscape architects to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

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2. Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.

3. Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in public community gardens.

4. Direct city property managers to consider the use of native milkweed and nectar plants at city properties, where appropriate.

The Mayor is required to submit the pledge before April 30 and submit a report at the end of the year documenting how the goals were met.

Financial Considerations
Assuming the plantings are incorporated into other planned projects, the cost and staff time will be minimal.

Environmental Issues
This action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because it is not a project which has a potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, pursuant to CEQA Guideline section 15378.

Attachments:

Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (PDF)

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1 Mayors’ Monarch Pledge Survey
Open Pledge Period: December 1 – March 31
Thanks for your interest in taking the National Wildlife Federation Mayors’ Monarch Pledge this year. Only mayors and heads of local and tribal government (or their staff designees) may fill out this pledge form. Please note: the survey will not save and will need to be completed in one sitting.

Information from this form will be used to create a public community profile page to showcase your mayor’s progress and efforts in the program.

Please be sure to read the pledge language and FAQ before taking the pledge. If you have any questions, you can email us at [email protected].

Mayor’s Basic Information
If you are not a “mayor,” or the head of local or tribal government, please enter your name and appropriate title here.

Title
First Name
Last Name
Email Address

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 2 Community Name
If your community doesn’t have an official name, consider using the following formats:

Town of Herndon, City of Fairfax, etc.

City
State
Mayor’s Mailing Address
Address Line 1
Address Line 2
City
State
Zip Code

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 3 Staff Point of Contact Information
Please provide your professional title in the space below.

Please note that the Staff Point of Contact you entered below will be the default user for your community profile. Please make sure you enter a valid email address.

Title
First Name
Last Name
Email
Note: This email address is your log in account.

Phone Number
Pledge Summary
Please type a description of your community, your community’s efforts and/or interest in committing to monarch and pollinator conservation. This information will populate on your community’s profile page, but can be updated and edited after this survey is submitted. See below for a sample description.

Example Description: Exampleville is a city in central Virginia with a population of roughly 50,000. The city is nestled in the Green Ridge Mountains and is home to the beautiful Exampleville Regional Park and many community gardens. Mayor Smith of Exampleville, VA has committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators with their signing of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge and looks forward to engaging residents in building more pollinator habitat throughout the city.

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 4 Action Item Selections
Each year, you must commit to at least 3 Action Items from this list which you will report on at the end of the year. At least 1 action must be taken from the “Program & Demonstration Gardens” section.

Communications and Convening
 Issue a Proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat.

Example Activities:

1. Issue a Monarch Day Pledge

2. Incorporate monarchs into your Earth Day, Pollinator Week or other proclamation
 Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
 Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
 Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.  Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters) to support monarch butterfly conservation.

Example Activities:

1. Develop community gardens with local gardening leaders

2. Host programming and other activities with Nature Centers

3. Coordinate and collaborate with local gardening groups at schools, colleges, and universities
 Engage with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.
 Engage with developers, planners, and landscape architects to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 5  Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.

Example Activities:

1. Conduct outreach and support habitat / green space improvements in underserved communities.

2. Develop brochures in different languages
 Create a community art project to enhance and promote monarch and pollinator conservation as well as cultural awareness and recognition.

Example Activities:

1. Host photo contests

2. Commission murals

3. Create and show films and documentaries

4. Support public art installations

5. Collaborate with local artists, including school, college, and university art departments to create community-wide art
Program and Demonstration Gardens
 Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.  Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.  Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent community location.
 Convert abandoned lots to monarch habitat.
 Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants in medians and public rights-of-way.
 Launch or maintain an outdoor education program in school gardens that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, teachers, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Eco-Schools USA Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).

Example Activities:

1. Eco-Schools USA Schoolyard Habitats

2. PK-12 Monarch Mission Curriculum (English and Spanish)

3. National Wildlife Federation Campus Pollinator Pledge

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 6  Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).

Example Activities:

1. Join the Community Wildlife Habitat
 Host or support a monarch neighborhood challenge to engage neighborhoods and homeowners’ associations within the community to increase awareness and/or create habitat for the monarch butterfly.

Example Activities:

1. Host photo challenges

2. Create property certification challenges

3. Collaborate with schools, universities, and colleges to host joint awareness and habitat creation challenges
 Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.

Example Activities:

1. Citizen Science Opportunities (Monarch Joint Venture)

2. NWF’s Monarch Stewards Program Certification

3. Engage with local colleges and universities science departments to host community-wide opportunities
 Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar producing plants in public community gardens.
 Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitats for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
 Host or support a city monarch butterfly festival to promote monarch and pollinator conservation, as well as cultural awareness and recognition  Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat beyond monarch demonstration gardens.

Example Activities:

1. Neighborhood Garden Signs (Victory Garden of Tomorrow)

2. Create plant labels or interpretive language for community gardens, parks, prairie habitat, rights-of-way, etc.

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) 7 Systems Change
Please select the actions that you will begin to work on this year, are in progress, or have already been completed.
 Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).
 Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
 Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.
 Direct city property managers to consider the use of native milkweed and nectar plants at city properties, where appropriate.
 Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.  Change ordinances so pesticide, herbicide, insecticide or other chemicals used in the community are not harmful to pollinators.

Example Activities:

1. Work with local school districts to eliminate or minimize the use of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides on school properties

2. Adopt Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices
 Adopt ordinances that support reducing light pollution.  California Specific: Pass a resolution to protect over-wintering monarch butterfly habitat on public and private lands.

Questions or Comments
Do you have any questions or comments?

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Attachment: Monarch Butterfly Sample Survey (Mayors Monarch Butterfly Pledge) Cotati City Council
Agenda Staff Report
Item type: REGULAR AGENDA (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: Appointment of Library Commissioner
Date: April 25, 2023
Written by: Kevin Patterson, Deputy City Clerk
Recommendation
It is recommended that the Mayor nominate a Cotati representative on the Sonoma County Library Commission and that the City Council adopt a motion to approve the Mayor's nomination.

Background
The Library Commission provides governance for the Sonoma County Library; establishes policy; sets goals and objectives; hires and evaluates the director; establishes and monitors the annual budget; signs necessary contracts; exercises such other powers, consistent with the law to foster the effective use and management of the library. Sonoma County residence is required and preference is generally given to applicants who reside within Cotati city limits. The term is for 4 years. The seat will be filled through appointment by the Mayor and ratification by the City Council.

Analysis/Discussion
The City Council appointed Rachel Parker at the October 27, 2020 regular city council meeting as a representative to the Sonoma County Library Commission, to serve the remainder of a 4- year term. Due to unforeseen circumstances Ms. Parker formally resigned her position leaving it open for new applicants to be considered for replacement.

The Library Commission opportunity was advertised in the Community Voice, on the marquee, and on the City’s website and social media. Two completed applications were received, from Jed Moffit and Cyan McMillan, which are attached.

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The current appointment term will end in August, 2024.

Financial Considerations
There are no fiscal impacts to the City by filling the vacant Committee position.

Environmental Issues
Making appointments to a commission does not constitute a project under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Attachments:

Cyan McMillan Application_Redacted (PDF)
Jed Moffit Application Redacted (PDF)

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Attachment: Cyan McMillan Application_Redacted (Appointment of Library Commissioner)

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Attachment: Cyan McMillan Application_Redacted (Appointment of Library Commissioner)

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Attachment: Jed Moffit Application Redacted (Appointment of Library Commissioner) Cotati City Council
Agenda Staff Report
Item type: REGULAR AGENDA (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: Annual Police Chief Report to the Community
Date: April 25, 2023
Written by: Michael Parish, Chief of Police
Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Council receive and discuss the annual police chief report to the community for 2022.

Background
In 2021, the Chief of Police presented the first annual report to the City Council and the Community, which covered activities and statistics from 2020.

From conversations with the City Council and the community in 2020 and 2021, the City Council committed to the following measures for greater transparency:

1. Early implementation of RIPA data collection.

2. Creation of this annual report to the community.

3. Review of annual RIPA reports for best practices.

4. Re-affirm our commitment to train our officers above and beyond POST standards, including implicit bias training and de-escalation training.

5. Updating the citizen complaint form and making it available on the website.

6. Conducting a community survey on racism.

7. Working with a third party to conduct a policy compliance review to ensure policies/training/and practices are aligned.

All of these measures have been implemented, with some, such as training, community surveys and compliance review on-going efforts. Additionally, in November 2021, the City also started the SAFE mental health crisis team with Rohnert Park, initially with limited hours as we ramped up services and added shifts through 2022. Today, the SAFE team operates 24/7 and now includes Sonoma State University.

Based on feedback from the City Council, the police department also self-identified a need to update internal tracking of use of force events to better document the multi-layer supervisory review and improved reportability in the annual report. The updated tracking also included a

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broader definition of use of force to include any type of action that could be perceived as force beyond simple handcuffing.

Analysis/Discussion
In 2022, the Police Department struggled with staffing levels and was looking for creative ways to bring new officers into Cotati. However, as a result, the department had limited bandwidth to implement new projects. Given the aversion to policing as a career, the generally low levels of unemployment in California, and competition from higher paying agencies, the police department will need to continue to be creative to fill vacancies and try to get back to full staffing. Even with the staffing shortfalls in 2022, the Police Department implemented these commitments, including:
- Put in service Sonoma County’s first fully upfit electric patrol vehicle, with three more going into service in 2023.
- Continued focus on training for de-escalation and implicit bias. - Hi-Low Evacuation Testing
- Annual Drug Take Back Event
- Various community events, such as Coffee with a Cop and National Night Out.

Targeted Traffic Enforcement Program
In addition to general traffic enforcement, the City is implementing a targeted traffic enforcement program as staffing allows, including:
- Downtown Truck Enforcement
- Pedestrian Crossing Vehicle Enforcement
- Distracted Driving Vehicle Enforcement
- Zone/Beat Enforcement
- Speed Enforcement in high collision areas
The program is intended to focus on each enforcement area every 6 months.

Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Technology
In 2022, the police department had twelve (12) successful recoveries of stolen vehicles from the ALPR. Our officers also use the ALPR system for investigations and for public safety by uploading wanted and dangerous vehicles into the system. Instead of immediately chasing suspect vehicles, and inherently creating risk of life and/or property as well as the potential for use of force, the collection of data is later used to safely serve a warrant to impound the vehicle used in the illegal activity.

Specialized Assistance for Everyone (SAFE) Mental Health Crisis Response Team Beginning in November 2021, the City and Rohnert Park partnered to stand up a mental health crisis response team to better respond to people in crisis and get them services for better

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outcomes rather than relying on police to be social workers. Through 2022, the SAFE team was working on ramping up hours and developing performance statistics, which are still a work in progress. The City also led the MOU negotiations to add Sonoma State University to the SAFE team, which went live in February 2023, close to the same time that the SAFE team began 24/7 coverage of the three communities.

Since the SAFE program inception in 2021 through the end of 2022, the SAFE team had responded to 1,691 calls (205 in Cotati [12%], 1,486 in Rohnert Park [88%]). The following statistics are for Cotati only:
• 97% of the calls were dispatched from our Police Dispatch, with 78% of the calls “Public Assists”
• 17% “Welfare Checks”
• 4% “Suicidal Subjects”
• 2% “Counseling Requests”.

Of the call outcomes, 61% were either assisted or advised, 21% were transported, with the remaining 18% some version of unable to locate or refusing services. Males are slightly overrepresented, comprising 56% of the calls, with females representing 40% of the calls, with 2% transgender and 2% unknown (data not collected). Black and white individuals represented 7% and 72% of the calls, respectively, with Latinx 13% of the calls and Asian (1%), Native American (2%), and data not collected (5%). Ethnicity was not collected when the team was unable to locate (UTL) or gone on arrival (GOA). It’s assumed that the race/ethnicity was generally perceived by the SAFE team member, rather than self-identified by the caller. Of the callers, 29% were youth (currently defined as 0-24 years old).

Roughly 5% are listed as emergency room diversions and 2% as jail diversions. Of the 44 identified transports, most were to Coffey House and Sutter Emergency Room/Crisis Stabilization Unit (16% each), followed by Petaluma Valley Emergency Room (14%), Kaiser Emergency Room (9%), Library/Catholic Charities/COTS (7% each), hotel/Redwood Gospel/AA-NA/friend or family residence (5% each), with the remaining transports to Memorial Emergency Room, Muir Woods, or Petaluma Health Center (2% each).

During this time period, there is no good data on SAFE diversions or co-response for Police, Fire or EMS. Specifically, it’s unknown how many, if any, calls are “new” calls that our dispatch center received for SAFE or how many were total calls diverted from police, fire or EMS. We are in conversation with SAFE to provide co-response numbers, but the cities may be in the best position to determine diversion. This is a critical area that needs better data collection, as it will be key to developing sustainable long term funding strategies. Another area that needs improved data granularity is the “public assists” which constitute over three-quarters of all calls but are too broad of a category to be well understood. Generally, it’s a catch all category for various mental health responses, but City staff are on a working group with SSU and SAFE to further improve reporting in these and other key areas.

The full table of SAFE responses is attached to this report. Note that the cost per call does not include any vehicle or equipment costs, which are billed separately.

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Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) Report
The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board was created “for the purpose of eliminating racial and identity profiling, and improving diversity and racial and identity sensitivity in law enforcement.” (Pen. Code, § 13519.4, subd. (j)(1).) To that end, the Board engages in a variety of work in partnership with state and local law enforcement agencies, community stakeholders, and academic researchers, including:
• Reviewing and analyzing policies and practices to make policy recommendations that will eliminate racial and identity profiling by law enforcement in California; • Conducting and consulting evidence-based research on intentional and implicit bias and law enforcement stop, search, and seizure tactics;
• Reviewing and analyzing stop data and civilian complaint data required by the Racial and Identity Profiling Act; and
• Reviewing training by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards Training (POST) regarding racial and identity profiling required by RIPA.

As required by AB 953, on July 1, 2016, the Attorney General established the RIPA Board for the purpose of eliminating racial and identity profiling and improving diversity and racial and identity sensitivity in law enforcement. Each year, the RIPA Board compiles and reviews data from police agencies in California and issues an annual report with recommendations.

A “stop”, as defined by RIPA regulations (AB 953), means any detention by a peace officer of a person, or any peace officer interaction with a person in which the officer conducts a search.

The data elements required to be collected during the stop are attached to this staff report. These data elements have been further amended, which will go into effect on January 1, 2024.

Statewide RIPA Data Summary
In the 2023 RIPA report, using the aggregate 2021 data from 58 reporting police agencies in California, it was concluded that Black and Hispanic individuals were more likely to have force used against them while Asian and Other individuals were less likely to have force used against them (compared to White individuals). Individuals perceived to have a disability were searched, detained on-site, or handcuffed at a higher rate than individuals not perceived to have a disability. Within all racial groups, youth (aged 10-17) were handcuffed, searched or detained on-site at a higher rate than other age groups. Within the youth group, Black and Hispanic individuals were searched at a higher rate than White youth. Of all racial groups, Black individuals had the highest rate of being searched, detained on-site, handcuffed, or removed from the vehicle by order. Except for Asian and Middle Eastern/South Asian individuals, other racial groups had higher search rates compared to White individuals.

Cotati and other Municipal Police Agencies in Sonoma County The City, and other Sonoma County Public Safety Consortium (SCPSC) cities (all cities except Sebastopol, Healdsburg and Cloverdale), began collecting RIPA stop data in July 2021. This was 6 earlier than required under state law and the state report on this initial 6 months is available on the RIPA website. To staffs knowledge, Cotati is alone among all Sonoma County police agencies in analyzing and reporting its RIPA data for this initial time period.

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The initial stop data only represents 6 months of data, but even with this limited data, there are some interesting points to highlight. Over at least the past decade, the primary concern of Cotati residents is speeding, which has resulted in traffic stops being the highest police priority. This long-standing community priority is reflected in the data, with 86% of the stops being traffic violation stops. While the type of traffic violation is not provided, it is likely that the majority of these are speeding related.

Over the second half of 2021, the Cotati Police made 1,736 stops, which is more than the larger communities of Windsor and Sonoma combined and close to the total for Rohnert Park (2,368).

When pro-rated by number of sworn officers, the Cotati Police made 116 stops per officer, which is more than double any other municipal police agency in the SCPSC.

Of the stops, Cotati Police are the most likely to stop someone for a traffic violation and least likely among SCPSC members to stop someone for “reasonable suspicion”.

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Of the stops in Cotati, most stops occurred at night between 9 pm and 1 am (27%), followed by mid to later afternoon from 2 pm to 5 pm (26.3%) and then mid-morning from 9 am and noon (16.3%). The slowest part of the day is 3 am to 8 am (7.8%).

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Consistent with other SCPSC municipal police agencies, almost two thirds of all stops by the Cotati Police are men (65.8%), as opposed to only about a third (33.8%) women. Cumulatively, transgender men, women and gender non-confirming make up less than one percent (0.4%) of all stops. There is no apparent significance of the differences between SCPSC agencies.

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The majority of all stops in Cotati are of people ages 25-44 (49.6%), with lesser numbers of stops of people 18-24 (16.9%) and people 45-54 (15.7%).

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The RIPA statute was enacted to understand if there is disparate treatment of people based on a variety of factors, but primarily focused on race and ethnicity. The RIPA analyses assume white people are the benchmark for treatment by peace officers and compare other races and ethnicities to try and understand the relative differences. Broadly, the RIPA analysis is broken down into three groups: Disparity of Stops, Disparity in Discovery Rates, and Disparity in Use of Force.

Of these three areas, Cotati was excluded from the disparity analysis of Discovery Rates and Use of Force due to insufficient sample size.

To try to understand Disparity of Stops, the RIPA report compares race/ethnicity data to the US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data from 2020. Essentially, the data analysis looks at the population of a given racial/ethnic group (ACS) in Cotati and compares that to the corresponding racial/ethnic group identified in the RIPA stops. This is then used to develop a disparity index, which is intended to measure the difference between the races/ethnicities of the population and the races/ethnicities of the people stopped. In this analysis, a value of 1 is parity with the resident Cotati population, less than 1 means that the percentage stopped is less than their resident population and more than 1 means that the percentage stopped is more than their resident population. This is then taken one step further and normalized against white people in the Ratio of Disparity to determine the relative differences by race/ethnicity using white people as the baseline.

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In Cotati, the stop data indicates that white people made up 60.9% of all stops, Hispanic made up

27.2% of all stops, black people made up 5.5% of all stops, with various other races/ethnicities making up the remainder. South County areas of Petaluma and Rohnert Park reported similar numbers, with some variances in Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Windsor.

The following table has the actual number of stops by perceived race/ethnicity for Cotati, as charted on a percentage basis above.

PERCIEVED RACE/ETHNICITY
STOPS
(July 1-Dec. 31, 2021)
ASIAN 51
BLACK 96
HISPANIC 473
MIDDLE EASTERN/SOUTH ASIAN 25
MULTIRACIAL 14

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NATIVE AMERICAN 5
PACIFIC ISLANDER 15
WHITE 1,057
TOTAL 1,736
The following is the summary table provided in the RIPA report comparing RIPA stops to ACS data to try to quantify any disparity in stops. Due to inconsistences in race/ethnicity categories from the RIPA data and the ACS data sets, Middle Eastern/South Asian was not compared.

A B A-B C/B*100 A/B E/E(w)*
Race/Ethnicity
RIPA
2021
ACS
2020
Absolute %
Difference
Relative %
Difference
Disparity
Index
Ratio of
Disparity
Asian 2.94% 2.06% 0.88% 42.72%

1.43 1.64
Black 5.53% 0.99% 4.54% 458.59%

5.59 6.44
Hispanic 27.25% 19.93% 7.32% 36.73%

1.37 1.58
Middle
Eastern/South
Asian 1.44% 1.44%
Multiracial 0.81% 6.33% -5.52% -87.20%

0.13 0.15
Native
American 0.29% 0.00% 0.29%
Other
Pacific
Islander 0.86% 0.27% 0.59% 218.52%

3.19 3.67
White 60.89% 70.16% -9.27% -13.21%

0.87 100.01% 99.74%
In the Ratio of Disparity column, all races/ethnicities have higher ratios than white people, except for “multiracial”, which has a much lower ratio. However, it is not possible to draw any conclusions with this data. There are various factors that could affect the comparison between the RIPA stop data and the corresponding resident population of Cotati, including several described in the RIPA report:
• Potential response bias in the ACS data and challenges with data collection during COVID-19. As indicated in the ACS table attached to the staff report, the margin of error exceeds the number of individuals counted in some demographic groups, including Black and Pacific Islander.
• The comparison uses different data years for ACS (2020) and RIPA (2021), as the 2021

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ACS data was not yet available at the time of the data analysis. • It is unknown which stops are residents, but it is believed that the majority of traffic stops as well as non-traffic interactions in our downtown are non-residents. The proximity of Rohnert Park, Sonoma State University, and US 101 as well as Highway 116 brings people through Cotati each day that far exceeds the population of Cotati. For example, local roadways such as Old Redwood Highway, have more than 24,000 vehicles per day and East Cotati Avenue has more than 17,000 vehicles per day. This may result in racial/ethnic compositions that vary from the resident demographic. • The analysis attempts to match racial/ethnic categories using different datasets collected using different methodologies. Certain assumptions were required to group ACS data into certain RIPA categories. Additionally, the US Census Bureau ACS data is selfreported data, whereas the RIPA data is peace officer perceptions of races/ethnicities. It is likely that categories such as multiracial and single races can significantly bleed into each other as perceived by the peace officer, making comparisons difficult. For example, multiracial shows a significantly lower disparity than the white baseline (0.15), which is likely error caused by the differences in self-reported ACS data and peace officer perceived RIPA stop data. The Hispanic category is also an aggregation of many groups in the ACS data, which in many cases would likely be perceived differently by a peace officer.
• This analysis assumes that the peace officer knows the race/ethnicity of the person prior to making the stop to conclude there is bias in the stop. In practice, the peace officer does not know the race/ethnicity on the majority of traffic stops until they approach the vehicle. Race/ethnicity may be observable or perhaps discernable prior to the stop on some daytime stops, provided obvious clues on the vehicle, such as a large decal, or the sight lines allow it and the windows are not tinted. At nighttime, race/ethnicity is generally not apparent until after the stop. Race/ethnicity is typically apparent for bicycle and pedestrian stops, but these are relatively small in number in Cotati compared to vehicle stops.
• Lastly, while obvious, the RIPA data only represents the first 6 months of data and all officers were still learning the system.

The Cotati Police spent many hours analyzing the publicly available data and are committed to a data-driven approach to improve and serve the community better. Based on this initial review of data, it’s difficult to draw conclusions, but we are nevertheless committed to pursuing best practices at the scale that fits the resources and priorities of our City. This includes finding a solution to better access and analyze the source RIPA data that allows the potentially more meaningful review of what happens after the stop. At that point, the race/ethnicity is known and it’s a more straightforward comparative analysis of outcomes provided that the sample size is large enough.

Actions Following A Stop
Of the 1,736 stops, Cotati police most commonly issued warnings only (44.8%), followed by traffic tickets (27.9%) and citations (11.1%). Of the 777 stops in Cotati that resulted in written or verbal warnings, most were for infractions (734), followed by misdemeanors (47). The data includes 8 felony warnings, but this is believed to be a data entry error with officers using the

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new system. Other SCPSC agencies also recorded felony warnings, but these are also assumed to be erroneous. Compared to other SCPSC municipal police agencies, Cotati Police issued relatively more traffic tickets and was less likely to take “no action”.

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In Cotati, in-field citations and releases (aka traffic tickets) are most commonly infractions (83%), followed by misdemeanors (15%) and felonies (1%). Compared to other SCPSC municipal police agencies, Cotati writes relatively more infractions and less misdemeanor or felony tickets. Each stop could include issuance of more than one violation, so the data is normalized on total number of violations issued for each agency to compare relative percentages.

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Of the 1,736 stops by Cotati, 72 resulted in arrests (4%). Similar to other police agencies, the arrests included mostly misdemeanor citations (68%) and to a lesser degree felonies (15%).

Very few arrests included infractions (1%). Each arrest could include issuance of more than one violation, so the data is normalized on total number of violations issued for each agency to compare relative percentages.

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Not all stops resulted in searches. Of the 1,736 stops by Cotati, 185 resulted in searches (11%).

The largest categories of the searches in Cotati were parole related (43.5%), followed by searches resulting from an incident (28%). Cotati had a low number of consent searches, relative to other SCPSC municipal police agencies.

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Of the 60 stops that resulted in finding contraband, 78 types of contraband items were found.

The most common contraband in Cotati were drug paraphernalia (30%), drugs (28%) and to a lesser degree, undefined contraband (9%), alcohol (8%) and weapons (5%).

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RIPA Recommendations
While the state of law continues to rapidly change around policing, the RIPA Board put forth policy recommendations based on the overall review of statewide data from 2021. Relative to a local police agency, the following recommendations were put forward based on the statewide data:

Pretextual Stops. The RIPA Board recommendation for the Legislature, law enforcement agencies, and local district attorneys is to create data-driven policies to improve public safety and develop innovative ways to address racial and identity profiling that can occur with pretextual stops.

Accountability Models. Consider the role supervisors play in creating a healthy culture of accountability. Upon noticing changes in behavior or attitude of officers, supervisors can check in with officers to determine the underlying reason for the change in behavior and to take appropriate action to prevent it from affecting the work further. The City Council has also directed staff to review models of oversight.

Calls for Service and Bias by Proxy. The Board encourages city governments, law enforcement

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agencies, and community advocates to partner to develop crisis intervention models that work for their communities. This has already been completed with the joint Cotati-Rohnert Park-SSU SAFE team. The City has also already incorporated bias training for dispatchers in advance of any POST requirements and will continue to provide regular training.

Civilian Complaints Policies. The Board made numerous recommendations regarding civilian complaints and the related processes. The City currently meets most of these recommendations, but will further review the recommendations in detail and incorporate changes as feasible for Cotati.

POST Law Enforcement Training and Recruitment. The Board made numerous recommendations for POST to update their training standards and requirements. The City already meets some of these training recommendations, but will further review the recommendations in detail and incorporate changes as feasible for Cotati.

Financial Considerations
No direct financial impacts related to the Annual Police Chief’s Report to the community, but data extraction and reporting currently requires extensive staff time. City staff have proposed adding a new records position in the Police Department to streamline data extraction from the record management system.

Implementation of the SAFE team requires an investment of approximately $200,000 per year (operations plus vehicles and equipment). We are continuing to work regionally to obtain grants to partially offset costs. Currently, the City is able to partially offset costs with the multi-year CCMU grant, and has a commitment from the County to provide another year of Measure O funding at a similar level as 2021. However, this continues to only be a year to year commitment, so staff are continuing to work with our partners to identify on-going funding to ensure program stability in the future.

Attachments:

CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (PDF)
Children's Letters (PDF)
Compiled SAFE Statistics (PDF)
ACS 2020 Cotati Population Data (PDF)
Data collection template (PDF)
New Legislation (PDF)

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COTATI POLICE

DEPARTMENT
2022 ANNUAL
REPORT
203 W. SIERRA AVE, COTATI, CA
NON-EMERGENCY 707-792-4611

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) The 2022 Cotati Police Department Annual Report is
herein presented for your review. I thank you for taking time to read this report. I hold in high regard the opinions and input of Cotati’s citizen’s and business owners.

This report is a snapshot of some of the great work done by the men and women of the Department. It also provides insight into some of the continuing challenges we face as a police department in the coming years. Members of the Cotati Police Department respect all individuals and will continue to be inclusive as we move the department forward always striving for equity and improvement.

I am humbled to have been chosen to lead this agency, and I can assure you that our passion and commitment to the citizens, the city, and the police department is our top priority. Together we will continue to move the organization ahead, building on our existing foundation and the community partnerships we have established over the years. With the reputations and responsibilities of police departments changing on a daily basis, it is important for us to harness the support of the community and do all we can to maintain our reputation as a highly respected law enforcement agency.

Policing our city is everyone’s responsibility so we urge the citizens of Cotati to stay vigilant, because you are the eyes and ears of the community. Be proactive about your own personal safety, look out for your neighbor, and be aware of what’s going on in your community. Informed, alert citizens play a critical role in keeping our community safe, so “If You See Something, Say Something.” The best way to share your vigilance is by calling our business line at 707-792-4611.

Developing and maintaining community partnerships is the cornerstone of our system of policing here in Cotati, so I want to thank all of you who have worked alongside us to keep our city safe. I am very proud of our police department and what we have accomplished, and I look forward to continued successes and achievements. The Cotati Police Department will continue to become a progressive department looking for unconventional ways to build trust and legitimacy in our City.

Our objective is to provide contemporary police services which promotes safe and secure neighborhoods, parks, roadways, and recreation/shopping/commercial areas visited by all.

As we move ahead in 2023, we will continue our focus on 1) being fair in processes, 2) being transparent in actions, 3) providing opportunities to hear from our community, and 4) being impartial in decision making.

We will continue our community policing philosophy through personal outreach to stakeholders to remain proactive in reducing crime, increasing traffic safety, enhancing citizen and business engagement and overall wellbeing of the City. We will continue our focus of training on employee health and wellness, effective ways to engage people who are in mental health crisis, continue understanding implicit bias and enhance de-escalation tactics through equipment and training.

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF
Welcome to the Cotati Police Department, I am honored to be your Chief of Police.

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PANDEMIC.......................................................................................................................... 1 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART............................................................................................... 2 CRIME ANALYSIS & REVIEW........................................................................................... 3 CALLS FOR SERVICE 2019-2022................................................................................. 3 COTATI ARREST STATISTICS 2019-2022................................................................... 4 COTATI NIBRS "PERSON" CRIME STATISTIC 2022................................................... 5 POLICE POLICIES........................................................................................................... 16 HI-LO SIREN DRILL......................................................................................................... 15 COTATI NIBRS "PROPERTY" CRIME STATISTICS 2022............................................ 6 COTATI NIBRS "OTHER" CRIME STATISTICS 2022................................................... 7 COTATI CITATIONS 2022............................................................................................. 8 CITIZEN COMPLAINTS................................................................................................ 9-10 SPECIALIZED ASSISTANCE FOR EVERYONE (SAFE) TEAM............................... 11-13 RACIAL & IDENTITY PROFILING ACT (RIPA).............................................................. 14 DEA PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKEBACK...................................................................... 15 TRAINING......................................................................................................................... 17 RECRUIT TRAINING OFFICERS.................................................................................... 18 USE OF FORCE.......................................................................................................... 19-21 NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICER MEETINGS....................................................................... 23 PATROL .......................................................................................................................... 25 ANIMAL CONTROL ........................................................................................................ 26 DISPATCH ....................................................................................................................... 27 MADD AWARD................................................................................................................. 28 TRAFFIC OFFICER........................................................................................................... 29 K9 TEAM .......................................................................................................................... 28 CADETS & VOLUNTEERS............................................................................................... 29 PARTNERSHIPS.............................................................................................................. 30 COMMUNITY OUTREACH............................................................................................... 30 COMMUNITY INFORMATION.......................................................................................... 31 SHERMAN BLOCK SUPERVISORY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (SBSLI)..................... 16 AUTOMATED LICENSE 27 READER (ALPR) TECHNOLOGY..................................... 18 ASSEMBLY BILL 481...................................................................................................... 22 ELECTRIC VEHICLE FLEET........................................................................................... 24 DETECTIVE...................................................................................................................... 27 RETIREMENT................................................................................................................... 32 AWARD OF MERIT..................................................................................................... 33-34 COMMENDATION....................................................................................................... 35-37

COTATI EMPLOYEE EXCELLENCE AWARD AND OFFICER OF THE YEAR FOR SONOMA COUNTY.......................................................................................................... 37

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) In 2022 the Pandemic continued to be a challenge for the Police Department’s normal operations. Thankfully the COVID 19 virus did diminish during the year of 2022 allowing the police department to reestablish community outreach and activities. As always, we remained working 24/7 answering 911 calls, responding to calls for service and we continued daily patrols.

PANDEMIC
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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community)

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
PSA
Katie Huldermann
Chief Michael
Parish
Lieutenant
VACANT
Sergeant
Paul Goodin
Sergeant
B Gallo
Sergeant
Tyler Wardle
Corporal
Brian Deaton
K9
Remo
Corporal
VACANT

DISPATCH
Kirsten Ott
Cristina
Montoya
Renee Harris
Michael Callen
Adrien McGoon
Kristen Abbott

OFFICERS
Ryan Reinke
Jerry Cunningham
Ryan Sullivan
Casey Perry
Kai Parker
Res. Officer -
Michael Iturbe
VACANT
VACANT
Volunteers/
Cadets
2 Detective
Anthony Garber

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community)

CRIME ANALYSIS & REVIEW
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COTATI ARREST STATISTICS
2019-2022
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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) COTATI TOTAL NIBRS "PERSON" CRIME
STATISTICS 2022
5 In 2022, California fully transitioned from the old Uniform Crime Report (UCR) to the newer National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The new data categories makes comparing against prior years data no feasible in several areas. Therefore, the City is reporting only 2022 crime data in this years' annual report. In 2022, the City had 530 crimes reported in the NIBRS system.

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) COTATI NIBRS "PROPERTY" CRIME
STATISTICS 2022
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STATISTICS 2022
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CITATIONS
2022
8 In 2022, the City issued 1,288 traffic citations, broken down by type in the following chart:

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) In 2022, the Police Department received a total of 9 complaints out of a total of 10,411 events (0.09%). The total logged events do not include numerous other interactions with the department, such as daily information interactions, citizen business at the Dispatch counter, etc.The police department receives complaints through a variety of sources, including the official complaint form, city website, emails, telephone, and in-person. For every complaint received, the Police Department investigates the allegations. The following are the sources of the complaints the calendar years since 2021 (sources of complaints in prior years were not tracked):

CITIZEN COMPLAINTS
9 The process begins with a Sergeant (who is not part of the citizen contact) reviewing the complaint, reviewing all available materials (such as police reports, dispatch recordings, body worn camera, etc.), followed by interviews of the complainant and any involved police staff. The Cotati Police Department was the first agency in Sonoma County to implement a full deployment of body worn cameras on all of our officers, which has greatly assisted in the review of complaints or other events.

For the purposes of this report, the complaints have been grouped in two ways: by outcome after investigation and by category of initial allegation. Of the 9 complaints received in 2022, the categories of initial allegations are as follows (including prior years):

Source of Complaints
In-Person
"Blue" Form
Webform
Email
Telephone
2021 2022
0 0
1 1
3 1
5 3
5 0
10 9
Initial Allegation
Conduct Unbecoming
Procedural
Use of Force
Not related to Police
2021 2022
1 6
0 0
9 0
6 3
7 2020
6 2
0 2
10 0
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Procedural: This category of typically involves complaints of unfair parking enforcement, contesting traffic tickets, failure of the officer to act, etc.

Category of Allegation
The definitions of the terms used are as indicated below. Not all terms are used this year due to the nature of the complaints received.

Under Review: The allegation is still under investigation.

Sustained: A true finding supported by facts, generally results in officer discipline and/or re-training.

Not Sustained: Facts revealed do not substantiate the allegation.

Withdrawn/Closed: Case was closed as matter was withdrawn by the complainant or complainant was unresponsive to attempts to contact.

Exonerated: Allegation is true but actions were lawful.

Conduct Unbecoming: This category of allegation is a complaint of rude or discourteous behavior of the officer.

Use of Force: This category of allegation is a complaint regarding the officer use of force.

Not related to Police: This category of allegation involves a complaint that is unrelated to the Cotati Police Department.
10 Unfounded: Not true. Actions alleged did not occur.

In 2022, none of the 9 complaints led to sustained allegations.

In the 2021 annual report, 1 allegation was still under review at the time of the annual report. A citizen complained of rude and discourteous behavior against an officer, which ultimately resulted in sustained allegations of rude and discourteous behavior and poor decision making, which is indicated in the chart of Complaint Outcomes for 2021.

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SPECIALIZED ASSISTANCE FOR

EVERYONE (SAFE) TEAM
11 The SAFE Team provides three main services to the community

1. Response to issues relating to mental health, addiction and homelessness

2. Non-emergency response for people in need

3. Proactive and continued community outreach
Cotati and Rohnert Park have partnered to provide a mobile mental health crisis response team for our cities. At the end of 2022 Cotati and Rohnert Park added Sonoma State University to our partnership creating a unique, if not first, team of municipal cities to combine special assistance response with a university. For 2023 the SAFE Team will be available for a twenty-four-hour response every day. Our SAFE team is modeled after the successful Cahoots program in Eugene Oregon, which consists of a mental health professional/resource advocate and medic (nurse, paramedic or EMT).

SAFE works proactively to address low level issues and provides preventative outreach to help ensure individuals don’t end up needing a higher level of care. SAFE can identify shelter options for the homeless, mental health services for people in crisis, connect people with resources to address addiction and provide health care that does not meet the threshold of an ambulance response.

When SAFE is not responding to calls-for-service they conduct outreach to the homeless, including evaluating their condition and providing shelter and counseling information.

SAFE is intended to benefit everyone by keeping police officers, firefighters and paramedics available for appropriate emergencies.

If you observe someone experiencing
mental health issues or homelessness
you can contact SAFE by calling 707-
792-4611 for non-emergencies or 911
for emergencies.

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Call Types
Counseling Requests
Death Notifications
Public Assists
Suicidal Subject
Welfare Checks
2022
4 159
8 34
0 Wound Care
Total 205
Initiated By
Dispatch
Flag Down
Self-initiated
2022
198
5 2
Total 205
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The SAFE team dispatched to a call where a resident was fleeing from her abusive boyfriend and seeking emergency housing. The SAFE team was able to help her by obtaining shelter and provided her with substance abuse program resources. The woman has now moved into a safe house and is sober.

The SAFE team dispatched to a call where a young man was suffering a mental breakdown, posting on social media that he was going to commit suicide. The SAFE team talked to the young man and learned that he was hearing voices which were telling him to harm himself. The SAFE Team took him to the hospital to get evaluated and obtain resources. The SAFE team navigator followed up with the young man and he is now on medication and talking to a therapist.

The SAFE team dispatched to a call where man has been having burst of anger that resulted in him harming himself. The man was checked out by medics, and the SAFE team spoke with the subject about his quality of life and what moving forward would look like. The SAFE team transported him to a hospital and helped instill purpose by speaking with him about his passions, empathizing with the man who felt like he didn’t care if he died and reminded him that he mattered. He agreed to mental health counseling.

This woman has been a part of the foster system and is currently living in a hotel but usually is unhoused. The woman has been through some traumas including death of parents, fiancé, and best friend. She also has been on life support before due to car wreck. Due to intense trauma, the woman deals with unwanted and intrusive suicidal thoughts that presented on the night of the SAFE call. The team listened and encouraged her empathetically and transported the woman on a voluntary 5150 hold to memorial Santa Rosa. She stated she felt more comfortable riding with the SAFE team to the hospital, rather than with the police.

Arrived on scene and spoke with the mother of a child who became very angry earlier in the night and shoved her twice. Her child was refusing medication but took emergency medication as soon as he knew the SAFE team was on the way. The child was laying calmly on the living room floor with a blanket when the SAFE team walked in the house, but became very upset, shouting that nobody loves him, and everybody thinks he's a joke. The child is on the Autism spectrum and has a hard time making friends. The mother was trying to get connected with services, but COVID has hindered her success. The mother has tried various activities with her child, but he has yet to show an interest in any of the activities. The child calmed down and agreed to go to bed and take his medication and get counseling. The SAFE team Navigator reached out to the mother to give her resources that will help her with her son.

A resident believed that the neighbors stole his items that he left in a common yard a day after the interaction. The SAFE team offered to mediate a conversation between the resident and his neighbors, but the man declined. The resident reported that he is borderline schizophrenic. The man asked for a ride to Catholic Charites to get support with getting a case manager/ disability worker to file his restraining order against his neighbors. The SAFE team transported the man to Catholic Charities and offered resources through PPSC and the SAFE team navigator. 13

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RACIAL AND IDENTITY PROFILING

ACT (RIPA)
14 The Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) was formed as part of AB953 (Weber, 2016).

The Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA Board) is a diverse group of members that represent the public, law enforcement and educators.

The goal of the RIPA Board is to strengthen law enforcement-community relations in California through collaboration, transparency, and accountability. The California Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of the Attorney General, has the primary oversight of the RIPA Board.

One of the responsibilities of the RIPA Board has been to develop the stop-data collection process. On July 1, 2018, the eight largest police agencies in California began collecting stop data and reporting the information to the DOJ.

The bill requires an agency that employs between one and 334 peace officers to issue its first annual report to DOJ by April 1, 2023. (All police agencies in Sonoma County, including the Cotati Police Department, are in this category).

For transparency, the Cotati Police Department decided to collect RIPA data before the scheduled mandate. Our Police Department is a member of a Public Safety consortium.

Members of the consortium include the Sonoma Sheriff’s Department, cities of Cotati, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, and Windsor (Sonoma and Windsor contract services with Sheriff’s Department).

Collectively, the consortium agencies started collecting RIPA data using patrol cars mobile computers and smart phones on July 1, 2021. The data is collected by the consortium and transmitted to the DOJ daily for review and quality control.This data set then becomes the single “point of truth” for validated data statewide.

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HI-LO SIREN DRILL
All Sonoma County Law Enforcement Agencies
use “Hi-lo” sirens for emergency evacuations. HiLo sirens have a distinct European emergency vehicle sound. When you Hear the Hi-Lo it’s Time
to Go. We will only use Hi-Lo sirens for
emergency evacuations. On August 31st 2022
the Cotati Police Department, Sonoma State
University Police Department and Rohnert Park
of Department of Public Safety conducted a
coordinated Hi-Lo Siren evacuation drill. In 2023
we will conduct another evacuation Hi-Lo Drill. To
see which evacuation zone you live in, go to the
City website (www.cotaticity.org) and click on the
Police page.

DEA PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKEBACK
The Cotati Police Department hosts Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) prescription
drug takeback events. In 2022 we hosted two (2)
drug takebacks; the first on April 30, 2022, and
the second on October 29, 2022. Proper
disposal of prescription drugs makes your home
a safer place and it also benefits our
environment. Keeping old medication in the
house or throwing medications away in the
garbage may be dangerous and lead to tragic
accidents - as they can end up in the mouths of
children or household pets. Many people also
flush expired or unused medications down the
toilet or drain, resulting in these drugs ending up
in our lakes, streams, and water supplies.

The Cotai Police Department also has a bin in
our public access lobby where you can dispose of prescription pills throughout the year.

Please remove pills from their containers and bag them up so there is plenty of room for all to dispose of their unwanted and expired medications.
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Our department policy manual is available on the City Website. The California Legislature continues to enact laws that direct law enforcement to continue to update polices to reflect nation-leading best practices. Our policies were amended in 2022 ensuring our compliance with current law. As we move into 2023, additions and addendums will be made in our policy manual. Whenever there are changes to our policy, we republish the manual and repost it on our City Website.

Sherman Block Supervisory
Leadership Institute (SBSLI)
In 2022 Cotati Police Sergeant Paul Goodin graduated from SBSLI. (SBSLI) is a program designed to stimulate personal growth, leadership, and ethical decision-making in California law enforcement front-line supervisors. Designed and implemented in 1988 through the efforts of California law enforcement professionals and top educators and trainers, the SBSLI is an intense program based on experiential learning techniques. Students are challenged to learn new ways to resolve issues through group and individual work.

The curriculum takes students through an analysis of management (planning, organizing, directing, etc.) and leadership (inspiring, challenging, developing, etc.) and how each discipline compliments the other. The course progresses from self-evaluation to interpersonal evaluation, to organizational relationships.

During the program, a typical successful student develops the ability to:

Correlate the relationship between personal
and organizational principles and values.

Exercise greater leadership in personal and
professional activities
Increase personal influence with individuals
and groups to accomplish organizational
goals.

Analyze issues from multiple perspectives.

Develop increased self-confidence and
confidence in the ability of others.

Provide support and development for peers
and subordinates.

Recognize and address areas for personal
improvement.

Effectively integrate management skills and
leadership qualities
Police Sergeant Paul Goodin and his SLI class, number 491

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TRAINING
17 The Cotati Police Department is certified by the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). Sergeant Paul Goodin is our training manager assigned to keep our department in compliance with POST. Some POST training is mandated, such as perishable skills. However, the Cotati Police Department routinely trains beyond POST mandates with our police officers, police dispatchers and civilian staff. POST also conducts audits on all certified law enforcement agencies to ensure compliance with training and hiring standards. Our police department continues to remain in POST compliance.

During 2022, the following training(s) were attended or completed by Officers: Bias and racial profiling, Force options simulator, strategic communication(including de-escalation), Vehicle racing/ Modifications (Sideshow training), Supervisory course, LGBTQ Community awareness (train the trainer), Internal affairs Investigation training, Human Trafficking, Use Of Force, Criminal Investigation (ICI CORE), Field Training Officer, Interview and interrogation, Critical incident response, Elder/ Dependent Adult Abuse.

Dispatchers completed: Suicidal Callers in Crisis training, CA Public Records Training, Cultural diversity, Active Shooter training for dispatchers, Advanced CTO Training.

Officers and Dispatchers are required to complete 24 hours of Continuing Professional Training (CPT) during the determined training cycle as prescribed by POST. Additionally, Full time Officers are required to complete 16 hours (as a part of or in addition to the 24 hours of CPT) of Perishable skills training such as arrest and control, firearms, emergency vehicle operation course, use of force, strategic communication (including de-escalation training).

We have trained our new detective in property and evidence management.

A Police Corporal successfully completed the Robert Pressley Institute of Criminal Investigation Core Course to aid in the small agency mutual aid team.

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RECRUIT TRAINING OFFICER
18 The Cotati Police Department is proud to have
Sergeant Tyler Wardle assigned as a Recruit
Training Officer (RTO) at the Santa Rosa Junior
College’s Public Safety Training Center (Regional
Police Academy). Sergeant Wardle is cadre at the
Academy assisting full-time faculty and instructors
to provide our future law enforcement officers with
the knowledge and skills to better serve and protect
California communities.

AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE

READER (ALPR) TECHNOLOGY
Since 2021 the Cotati Police Department has deployed ALPR investigative technology. The department currently has three patrol vehicles outfitted with ALPR technology. The police department received funding for the ALPR’s through the State Homeland Security Grant totaling approximately $60,000. The purpose of the ALPR’s is to identify lost or stolen vehicles/license plates or to help locate a vehicle involved in various crimes. In 2022 the police department had 12 successful recoveries of stolen vehicles. Our officers also use the ALPR system for investigations and for public safety by adding wanted and dangerous associated vehicles into the system. Due to the rampant on-going “sideshow” issues in the Bay Area, Cotati Officers, utilizing the ALPR vehicle will respond to the “Sideshow” location and automatically log potential participants in the illegal activity. Instead of immediately chasing the suspect vehicles, and inherently creating risk of life and/or property as well as the potential for use of force, the collection of data is often used later to safely serve a warrant to impound the vehicle used in the illegal activity.

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In 2022, the Cotati Police Department experienced zero (0) URSUS (California Department of Justice Use of Force Incident Reporting database) reportable use of force.

1. An incident that involves the shooting of a civilian by a peace officer.

2. An incident that involves the shooting of a peace officer by a civilian.

3. An incident in which the use of force by a peace officer against a civilian result in serious bodily injury or death.

4. An incident in which the use of force by a civilian against a peace officer results in serious bodily injury or death.

Nevertheless, in Cotati, we have adopted a far more expansive definition of use of force (UOF), including any incident beyond simple handcuffing. Reportable UOF events in Cotati include the display of force (such as unholstering any type of police tool, including taser, pepper spray, or firearm). In 2022 all UOF incidents were tracked using police record management software system. When UOF occurs, officers record their incident using a checklist, which lists which officers were present (including mutual aid officers), what tool was used (i.e. Taser, control hold), whether officers or suspects received injuries and why force was used. When supervisors review the arrest/incident reports it is flagged for UOF.

Sergeants read the report narrative, review the UOF module and view the officers Body Worn Camera. As Chief of Police, I also review each UOF for any policy violations or an opportunity to consider alternate equipment, techniques, or training in the future to reduce or avoid the use of force.

URSUS Criteria
Congratulations to Officer Sullivan who
received his “10851” pin! 10851 is the
California Vehicle Code for Vehicle Theft.

This award is sponsored by CHP and the
California State Automobile Association.

Officers are eligible for this award based
on criteria which relate to recovering
stolen vehicles and arrests made of
subjects associated with the stolen
vehicles. By being proactive and with
some assistance of the Automated
License Plate Reader (ALPR) equipped
patrol vehicles, Officer Sullivan has
recovered 12 stolen vehicles from March
to December of 2022, 5 of which were
occupied and arrests were made. Chief
Parish recently had the pleasure of
presenting Officer Sullivan with this award!

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) 20 Total Events for 2022: 10,411
Events that resulted in arrests: 395
Use of Force Instances: 29
Total events that result in arrest: 3.8%
Total events that result in Use of Force: 0.28%
Use of Force Breakdown:

Although there were 29 UOF events in 2022, many UOF events include the use of multiple tools/techniques, resulting in more tools/techniques used than UOF events. 2022 Use of Force Summary:

Tool/Technique Used
Baton/Impact Weapon
Bean Bag Shotgun
BOLA Wrap
Control Hold/Defensive Technique
Firearm Discharge
Times Used
0 0
22 1
0 Firearm Displayed
K-9
Pepper Spray
Taser Discharge
Taser Displayed
12 8
2 0
0 WRAP 3
Total 48

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) 21 Baton/Impact Weapon: Use of a baton on an uncooperative subject to gain compliance.

Bean Bag Shotgun: An AB 481 tool that ejects bean bags from a shotgun; in certain circumstances is used in lieu of a Taser or firearm.

BOLA Wrap: A tool that ejects a weighted rope that wraps around and restrains an uncooperative subject; in certain circumstances is used in lieu of a Taser or firearm.

Control Hold: Controlling someone who is not doing what they are being instructed to do.

Defensive Techniques: Defending yourself against someone who is actively attacking the Officer.

Firearm Discharged: Firearm discharged during event.

Firearm Displayed: Firearm removed from holster.

K-9: Police dog used search, or hold/apprehend an uncooperative subject.

Pepper Spray: Use or pepper spray on an uncooperative subject in certain circumstances in lieu of another tool, such as Taser or impact weapon.

Taser Discharged: Taser Darts Launched or Taser Contacting an uncooperative subject, in lieu of impact tools or firearm.

Taser Displayed: Taser Removed from holster.

WRAP: A safe restraint system, designed to protect uncooperative subjects and officers.

Use of Force by Reason:

Affecting or incident to Arrest: 23
Combative/uncooperative 5150 Subject: 1
Outside Agency Assist: 1
Other: 4
(No arrest: Building Searches/Possible Weapon Reported, etc.)

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22 This bill requires a law enforcement agency to obtain approval of the applicable governing body, by adoption of a military equipment use policy by ordinance at a regular meeting prior to the funding, acquisition, or use of military equipment, as defined.

In 2022 the Cotati City Council approved an ordinance to direct our police department on the use, deployment, and policy for Military Equipment. The Council approved the use and possession of our Command Van and Bean Bag Shotguns.

In 2022 Our Command Van was deployed for Mutual Aid Investigations in the Cities of Healdsburg and Sebastopol.

In 2022 we had zero (0) deployments of the Bean Bag Shotguns.

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NEIGHBORHOOD OFFICER MEETINGS
Cotati Police Officers hosted two Neighborhood Officer meetings for each of the neighborhood areas in 2022. Cotati is comprised of six (6) areas (beats), which are coincident with evacuation zones. Maps of both beats and evacuation zones are available for view on the Police page of our City Website. An individual officer is assigned to each of the six areas and their phone numbers and emails are available to citizens and business owners to ask questions and make requests. Officers rotate annually to allow officers to better learn the areas and for residents and businesses to better know our officers. We invite you to attend one of our meetings.
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE FLEET
The Cotati Police Department was the first law enforcement agency in the North Bay area, and one of the first in the nation, to deploy a fully upfitted and badged electric police car.

Our electric vehicle is performing great, and we plan to eventually have a 100% electric police car fleet for Cotati.
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25 Our sworn police staff are here 24/7 hours a day to keep our community safe. The list of things that officers do on a daily basis is long, including the following summary of the main things our officers do to enhance the quality of life in Cotati.

Protect life and property through the enforcement of laws & regulations; Proactively patrols assigned areas
Conduct traffic and parking enforcement
Respond to calls for police service
Conduct preliminary & follow-up criminal and traffic investigations Conduct interviews
Prepare written reports and field notes of investigations and patrol activities Arrest and process criminals
Testify in court
Emergency duties required during adverse weather conditions Exercise sound judgment in determining when to use force and to what degree Operate a law enforcement vehicle under emergency conditions day or night Comprehend legal documents including citations, affidavits, warrants and other documents.

Command emergency
personnel at accident
emergencies and
disasters
Active Community
Oriented Policing
Self-initiate traffic
and/or criminal
investigations
Supplement animal
control
Perform bar and
business checks

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ANIMAL CONTROL
26 All of our sworn personnel are designated as animal control officers. Our police officers respond to calls for service regarding both domestic and wild animals. The City of Cotati Administrative Services Department is responsible for dog licensing for our City. Please license your dogs so that we can better serve you and your pet if they get loose or have other issues. Cotati contracts with Rohnert Park Animal Services for sheltering our animals.

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DISPATCH
The Cotati Police Department employs six (6)
Police Dispatcher/Clerks. Our police dispatch is
a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
receiving all 911 calls for law enforcement, fire,
and medical emergencies for both the City of
Cotati and the Sonoma State University (SSU)
campus (we have a dispatch contract with SSU
Police Department). In addition to 911 calls-forservice, our dispatchers answer regular police business call for our City and SSU, and
dispatch the SAFE team for the City and now
SSU. Our dispatchers are also clerks who
process police records, Public Records Request
and other administrative duties. Our lobby is
open to the public 24 hours per day, 7 days per
week.
27 DETECTIVE
Our police department has been
functioning without a Detective for
several years. With the passing of
Measure S, an on-going 1%
General Fund sales tax and the
reorganization of the police
department, we now has a
detective who is the custodian of
evidence and our dedicated
investigator.

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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) In 2022 Sergeant Tyler Wardle received his
fourth Mothers Against Drunk Driving MADD
award. The Sergeant had the most DUI arrest
in the previous year (19 arrests) out of all
Cotati Officers
MADD changed the criteria for the Drunk
Driving Enforcement Award from a threshold
of 25 DUI arrests for a small agency to the
individual officer with the highest number of
arrests.

During the COVID pandemic, there were fewer cars on the road. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) recognized that because of a decreased volume of vehicle traffic, that fewer drunk driving arrests would occur.

MADD AWARD
K9 TEAM
We are fortunate to have Corporal Brian
Deaton and his partner REMO as our K9
Team. REMO is a dual-purpose trained Police
K9 for the apprehension of violent offenders
and the detection of Cocaine, Heroin and
Methamphetamine. More recently, due to the
prevalence of fentanyl on the streets, REMO
is no longer used for drug detection due to the
risk of serious harm or death to the K9.We
also make our K9 Team available for mutual
aid, when requested by our law enforcement
partner agencies. REMO was procured
through the Sean’s K9’s grant program.
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TRAFFIC OFFICER
Officer Ryan Reinke is our full-time Traffic
Officer. Officer Reinke completed Motor
Officer training in 2020. His primary duty is
traffic enforcement, concentrating on driving
behavior that causes accidents such as
speeding and distracted driving. Officer
Reinke is also assigned to traffic accident
investigations. If you have a traffic
complaint or request, please go to the
Police page of the City website to submit
your concerns.
29 CADETS AND VOLUNTEERS
The police department has both Cadets and
Volunteers, providing them with an opportunity
to assist our department and learn about career
opportunities in law enforcement. Our cadets
are typically high school students who help with
mutual aid for parades and other events in
Sonoma County, including the Butter and Eggs
Festival, the Apple Blossom Festival, and our
own Kids Day Parade and Festival. Cadets also
go on ride-a longs with officers, attend in house
trainings and criminal justice field trips. Our
volunteers help with daily duties at the police
department such as maintaining the inventory
of police equipment and supplies. Often our
cadets and volunteers become police officers,
deputy sheriffs and public safety dispatchers.

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PARTNERSHIPS
The Cotati Police Department has a strong relationship with the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District, Sonoma State University Police Department and the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety. Together, through teamwork, mutual aid, and allied training, we make all of our jurisdictions a safer place to live and improve the quality of life for our residents and businesses.
30 COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has limited the amount of in-person outreach events that we held. However, we did host Coffee with a Cop events while observing masking requirements and social distancing. We resumed National Night Out at La Plaza Park in 2021 and held it again in 2022, after pausing it for 2020. At National Night Out, we provide the community with free dinner and partnered with our Recreation Department to show Paw Patrol.

We also continued our Annual Holiday Toy Drive, partnering with the Rohnert Park/Cotati Rotary and Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District to collect, wrap and deliver many toys to children throughout the Cotati area.

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I also want to take this opportunity to invite you to follow us on one or more of our social media platforms. Our police department has a robust public information presence to better engage with our residents and to be accessible to our community where they are. In addition to the police page of the City website, and regular pieces in the Cotati Connection newsletter, we use Facebook (now with over 5,100 “friends,”) Instagram (now with over 2,800 followers) and Nixle for time sensitive and emergency information. We encourage you sign up for Nixle alerts by downloading the Everbridge application on the Google or iOS app stores, or by texting your zip code to 888777.

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RETIREMENT
In 2022, we congratulated Community Services Officer (CSO) Carrie Peoples for here thirtythree (33) years of service to the City of Cotati Police Department. Carrie began her career in Cotati as a 911 Dispatcher/record clerk and eventually became a CSO. As our CSO Carrie oversaw Animal Control, evidence, crime scene investigations, parking enforcement and more. During Carrie’s career at the Cotati Police Department, she received multiple commendations and awards for her commitment to City of Cotati and its residents. Happy retirement Carrie.
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Corporal Brian Deaton volunteered to be one of our Mutual Aid Investigation Team members.

The Team is comprised of the Cotati Police Department, Sonoma State University Police Department, Healdsburg Police Department, Sebastopol Police Department and the Cloverdale Police Department respond together to investigate serious crime in our respective jurisdictions.

On July 26, 2019, the City of Cotati experienced its first homicide since 1995. The homicide which occurred in the “Bird Section” of Cotati was extremely violent involving a firearm as the weapon.

This murder was alleged to be committed by Joseph Rossi who had an ongoing feud with his neighbor Patrick Leonard. Leonard was shot 8 times with a handgun.

Brian responded to the call-for-service with multiple officers securing the crime scene and accepted the responsibility as the lead officer for this homicide investigation.

Brian partnered with the Sonoma County District Attorney Office personnel and mutual aid officers during this lengthy investigation.

As the lead investigator, Brian interviewed all known and later identified witnesses, canvassed the crime scene, reviewed Body Worn Camera footage, examined physical evidence, attended the autopsy collecting forensic evidence, and presented the District Attorney’s Office with an outstanding prosecutable case.

Because of the Pandemic this murder trial was postponed until 2022.

As the lead investigator Brian attended the entire jury trial of Joseph Rossi providing testimony for the jury and information to the prosecution. A Second-Degree Murder conviction and firearm enhancement penalty were secured and justice for Patrick Leonard and his family was achieved.

Rossi’s sentencing is pending.

Brian’s commitment to the City of Cotati was demonstrated by his willingness to accept this complicated investigation with limited experience and training. Brian left his “comfort zone” without hesitation. The outcome was justice.

AWARD OF MERIT
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AWARD OF MERIT
Sergeant B. Gallo
Officer Ryan Reinke
Dispatcher/Clerk Cristina Montoya
On June 22, 2022, neighbors on El Rancho Drive reported seeing a woman who had injuries to her face pleading for help. The woman and her boyfriend, who is a repeat domestic violence offender both reside on El Rancho Drive
Upon receiving the call, Dispatcher Montoya disseminated critical information and requested assistance from allied law enforcement agencies as well as medical response.

Sergeant Gallo and Officer Reinke arrived on scene in a timely manner making contact with the boyfriend from outside the home. Gallo and Reinke soon learned that the boyfriend, who was intoxicated and agitated, would not exit the home and they had visual contact of the woman who was now also in the house.

Gallo and Reinke set up a perimeter on the home and led a coordinated response with Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and Sonoma State University Police officers. The boyfriend continued to not follow commands to exit the home so officers could check on the women’s welfare.

Officers began negotiations with the boyfriend with a focus on the woman’s welfare.

In coordinated effort, officers used less-lethal force (Taser) when the boyfriend exited his home holding a golfclub and threating officers.

The boyfriend was arrested and booked into jail for multiple felonies to include domestic violence. His bail was set at $500,000.

The woman was transported to a local hospital where she was treated for great bodily injury.

This rescue of a domestic violence victim and an arrest of a violent suspect without injuring him is commendable and deserving of an Award of Merit.
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COMMENDATION
Detective Anthony Garber
On July 12, 2022, A frantic resident on Arthur Street in Cotati reported via 9-1-1 that a woman was being “mauled” by a dog in front of a residence on Arthur Street.

Understanding the serious nature of this call-for-service Detective Garber immediately responded, arriving on scene within minutes. The dog (a Pitbull) was still mauling the woman when Detective Garber arrived. Garber used caution and without regard for his own safety, grabbed the dog by the collar and removed it off of the women and secured the dog in his patrol car.

Garber’s rescue of this woman saved her from further injury by this vicious dog. I commended Garber for his fast response, bravery, and professionalism.

COMMENDATION
Sergeant B Gallo
Detective Anthony Garber
Police Dispatcher Michael Callen
On August 17, 2022, at approximately 1725 hours Dispatcher Callen received a 9-1-1 call from the Bird Section of Cotati. The caller was cryptic stating that he had an unwanted person in his home. Callen questioned the caller and soon realized that it was possibly a drug overdose and not an intruder so he immediately dispatched police officers, Rancho Adobe Fire District (RAFD) and ambulance personnel.

As officers were responding to the home, Callen had the 9-1-1 caller exit the home to meet the officers as they arrived so he could provide the location of the downed person and answer officers questions.

Detective Garber and Sergeant Gallo immediately entered the home and found a man lying on a bathroom floor who was unconscious and not breathing and surrounded by illegal drug paraphernalia.

Knowing that this was a drug overdose Garber administered Naloxone (Narcan) which did not revive the man. Gallo provided first aid by giving the downed man chest compressions.

Garber administered a second dose of Naloxone. For approximately four (4) minutes both Gallo and Garber continued chest compressions until RAFD and ambulance personnel arrived.
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COMMENDATION
Officer Ryan Reinke
Dispatcher Cristina Montoya
Dispatcher Adrien McGoon
Sergeant Tyler Wardle
On November 7, 2022, Camille Markovich was reported missing by family members. Camille who was traveling to Oregon by car was overdue. Camille’s family explained that she lives both in Napa County and has a second Salem Oregon residence. The family called the California Highway Patrol and Oregon State Police inquiring if either agency had contacted Camille during their patrols. Neither of these agencies had contact with Camille and the family was directed to report her missing to the jurisdiction she was last seen. Camille was last seen on the evening of November 6th at her employers. Camille works in the City of Cotati, so the family called Cotati Police Dispatch.

Police Dispatchers Cristina Montoya and Adrien McGoon were on duty to receive this missing person information dispatching it to Officer Ryan Reinke. Reinke learned that Camille had last used her credit card in Eureka. Dispatchers assisted with the investigation by arranging a location “ping” on Camille’s cellular phone, entering her in the missing person databases for both California and Oregon, creating a missing person flyer to be distributed and sent a be-on-the-lookout for Camille to multiple Oregon and California law enforcement agencies.

The cellular phone last ping was from a tower located in rural Humboldt County. There were no further phone pings indicating that the phone had a dead battery. During Reinke’s investigation Humboldt County Sheriff deputies and California Highway Patrol officers informed Reinke that a severe snowstorm was occurring in Northern California. Talking with family members Reinke discovered that Camille was possibly taking rural roads connecting to Highway 199 on her way to Oregon which would take her through Siskiyou County. Reinke worked with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department to search for Camille.

At the end of Reinke’s patrol day shift he briefed Sergeant Wardle of the missing person case. Wardle kept in communication with Siskiyou County deputies during his night shift and Reinke returned the following day shift. Ultimately Siskiyou County deputies improvised by having a civilian with a snowmobile check the rural road that Camille was believed to traveling. Camille was located on the rural road with her car “stuck” in the snow and her cellular phone battery was dead. Camille was transported to a safe location where she could contact her family.
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Attachment: CPD ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) All Cotati Police personnel that participated in the rescue of this young woman are to be commended for their professionalism, dedication and commitment to public service and safety.

COTATI EMPLOYEE EXCELLENCE

AWARD AND SONOMA COUNTY

OFFICER OF THE YEAR
For Officer Reinke’s lead on this missing persons investigation he was received the City of Cotati’s Employee Excellence Award. Employees from different departments were nominated as well. After the Department Heads reviewed all nominees, Officer Reinke was selected for going above and beyond leading to Camille’s rescue.
37 Cotati Police Officer Ryan Reinke received recognition as Sonoma County’s Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for 2023 for an investigation in 2022 that led to the rescue of a woman who was reported as missing.

Officer Reinke was a unanimous pick by the Sonoma County Law Enforcement Chiefs’ Association as the Officer of the Year. A perpetual plaque commemorating Officer Reinke’s recognition will be on display at the Cotati Police Department lobby for one year. Come to our building and check out the plaque!

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Attachment: Children's Letters (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) FY 21‐22
Nov 21 ‐
June 22 July August September October November December January February March April May June FY 22‐23
Total
Total From
Inception
TOTAL RP CALLS FOR SERVICE 740 120 119 121 133 121 132 141 170 217 1,274 2,014 TOTAL COTATI CALLS FOR SERVICE 103 16 13 24 20 20 9 13 21 24 160 263 TOTAL SSU CALLS FOR SERVICE 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 7 5 12 12
TOTAL CALLS 843 136 132 145 153 141 141 154 198 246 0 0 0 1,446 2,289% RP 88% 88% 90% 83% 87% 86% 94% 92% 86% 88% 88% % Cotati 12% 12% 10% 17% 13% 14% 6% 8% 11% 10% 11%
% SSU 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 4% 2% 1%
Cost
RP 355,922 $ $ 35,363 $ 54,741 $ 77,705 $ 49,860 $ 56,278 $ 67,816 $ 105,766 $ ‐ 68,494 $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ $ 516,024 $ 871,946 Cotati 67,795 $ $ 6,736 $ 10,427 $ 14,801 $ 9,497 $ 10,720 $ 12,917 $ 20,146 $ ‐ 14,050 $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ $ 99,293 $ 167,088 SSU $ ‐ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ $ ‐ 5,269 $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ $ 5,269 $ 5,269 Total 423,717 $ $ 42,099 $ 65,168 $ 92,506 $ 59,357 $ 66,998 $ 80,733 $ 125,912 $ ‐ 87,813 $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ $ $ 620,586 $ 1,044,303 Cost per SAFE Call 503 $ $ 310 $ 494 $ 638 $ 388 $ 475 $ 573 $ 818 $ ‐ 444 $ #DIV/0! #DIV/0! #DIV/0! 429 $ City of Cotati Data
Call TypesCounseling Requests 3 0 0 10 0 0 000 1 4
Death Notifications 0 0 0 00 0 0 000 0 ‐Public Assists 76 13 11 16 16 19 8 12 15 21 131 207 Suicidal Subject 5 1 0 01 0 1 1 1 0 5 10Welfare Checks 19 2 2 73 1 0 0 5 3 23 42Wound Care 0 0 0 00 0 0 000 0 ‐ Initiated By
Dispatch 99 16 13 24 18 19 9 12 20 22 153 252
Flag Down 2 0 0 00 0 0 000 0 2Self‐initiated 2 0 0 02 1 0 112 7 9Outcomes/Disposition Advised 9 1 1 22 3 0 1 1 1 12 21
Assisted 49 8 9 17 10 6 6 5 15 14 90 139Safety Contract 1 0 0 00 0 0 010 1 2Refused Services 16 3 1 02 2 1 2 0 1 12 28Refused Transport 1 0 0 10 0 0 000 1 2Transported 22 3 2 45 4 2 2 1 2 25 47 Canceled En Route/On Arrival 3 0 0 00 0 0 032 5 8UTL/GOA 1 1 0 01 4 0 2 0 4 12 13 Check Check
Gender
Female 41 6 3 6 11 9 5 7 10 7 64 105
FY 22‐23

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Nov 21 ‐
June 22 July August September October November December January February March April May June FY 22‐23
Total
Total From
Inception
FY 22‐23
Male 56 10 10 15 9 11 4 4 10 12 85 141Transgender 3 0 0 10 0 0 100 2 5 Data not collected 3 0 0 20 0 0 1 1 5 9 12
Race/EthnicityAsian‐American 2 0 0 00 0 0 000 0 2Black 7 3 0 22 0 1 0 3 0 11 18 Latino/Hispanic 11 2 3 62 2 0 1 3 2 21 32
Native American 0 1 1 00 0 1 010 4 4White 76 10 9 16 16 14 7 10 11 16 109 185 Data not collected 7 0 0 00 4 0 2 3 6 15 22
Youth 0‐24 y.o. 34 3 3 79 2 2 4 6 6 42 76SAFE Cover Request (SAFE Calls for Backup) Police 0 0 0 00 0 0 012 3 3
Fire/EMS 0 0 0 00 0 0 001 1 1
Diversions
ED (Emergency Dept) Diversion 7 0 0 11 1 0 0 1 0 4 11
Jail Diversion 3 0 0 01 0 1 010 3 6
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Transports
Petaluma Valley ER 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 000 3 6Sutter ER / CSU 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 000 5 7 Coffey House 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 100 3 8
Kaiser ER 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 001 2 5Library 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 000 1 3Catholic Charities 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 000 2 3AA/NA 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 000 1 2Friend/Family Residence 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 001 2 3 Memorial ER 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 1MIC (COTS) 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 000 2 3 Muir Woods 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 1Petaluma Health Center 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 1Redwood Gospel Mission 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 000 2 2 Hotel 0 0 0 1 1 0 000 2 2Sam Jones 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 Train Station 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Check Check

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Attachment: Compiled SAFE Statistics (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) Table: ACSDT5Y2020.B03002
Label 2020 ACS Estimate Margin of Error % of Population Total:                                 7,487 ±47
Not Hispanic or Latino:                                 5,818 ±403 White alone                                 5,253 ±466 70.16% Black or African American alone                                      74 ±89 0.99% American Indian and Alaska
Native alone                                        ‐    ±19 0.00% Asian alone                                    154 ±80 2.06% Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone                                      20 ±25 0.27% Some other race alone                                      20 ±32 Two or more races:                                    297 ±178 6.33% Two races including Some
other race                                      24 ±43
Two races excluding Some
other race, and three or more
races                                    273 ±170
Hispanic or Latino:                                 1,669 ±399 20% White alone                                    901 ±327 See Above Black or African American alone                                      10 ±15 See Above American Indian and Alaska
Native alone                                    161 ±212 See Above Asian alone                                      22 ±35 See Above Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone                                        ‐    ±19 See Above Some other race alone                                    398 ±192 See Above Two or more races:                                    177 ±173 See Above Two races including Some
other race                                    142 ±169
Two races excluding Some
other race, and three or more
races                                      35 ±44
Cotati, California
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Attachment: ACS 2020 Cotati Population Data (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) Table: ACSDT5Y2020.B03002
Label
Total:

Not Hispanic or Latino:

White alone
Black or African American alone
American Indian and Alaska
Native alone
Asian alone
Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
Some other race alone
Two or more races:

Two races including Some
other race
Two races excluding Some
other race, and three or more
races
Hispanic or Latino:

White alone
Black or African American alone
American Indian and Alaska
Native alone
Asian alone
Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
Some other race alone
Two or more races:

Two races including Some
other race
Two races excluding Some
other race, and three or more
races
RIPA Category
White
Black
Native American
Asian
Pacific Islander
N/A (excluded)
Multi‐Racial
Hispanic Total
Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic
Multi‐Racial
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Attachment: ACS 2020 Cotati Population Data (Police 2022 Annual Report to the Community) AB 953: TEMPLATE BASED ON THE FINAL REGULATIONS
Additional data values for the stop of a student in a K-12 public school are listed in red.

November 7, 2017 Page 1

1. Originating Agency Identifier (prepopulated field)

2. Date, Time, and Duration of Stop
Date: (e.g., 01/01/19)
Start Time (approx.): (e.g. 1530)
Duration of Stop (approx.): (e.g. 30 min.)

3. Location
 Report one (listed in order of preference): block number and street name; closest intersection; highway and closest highway exit. If none of these are available, the officer may report a road marker, landmark, or other description, except cannot report street address if location is a residence.
 City:_______________
 Check here to indicate stop is of a student at K-12 public school: _________ o Name of -12 Public School ____________

4. Perceived Race or Ethnicity of Person Stopped (select all that apply)  Asian
 Black/African American
 Hispanic/Latino(a)
 Middle Eastern or South Asian
 Native American
 Pacific Islander
 White

5. Perceived Gender of Person Stopped (may select one from options 1-4 AND option 5, if applicable, or just option 5)

1. Male

2. Female

3. Transgender man/boy

4. Transgender woman/girl

5. Gender nonconforming

6. Person Stopped Perceived to be LGBT (Yes/No) (“Yes” must be selected if “Transgender” was selected for “Perceived Gender”)

7. Perceived Age of Person Stopped (input the perceived, approximate age)

8. Person Stopped Has Limited or No English Fluency (check here if Yes _____)

9. Perceived or Known Disability of Person Stopped (select all that apply) o Deafness or difficulty hearing
o Speech impairment or limited use of language
o Blind or limited vision
o Mental health condition
o Intellectual or developmental disability, including dementia o Disability related to hyperactivity or impulsive behavior o Other disability
o None

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Additional data values for the stop of a student in a K-12 public school are in listed in red.

November 7, 2017 Page 2

10. Reason for Stop (select one - the primary reason for the stop only) o Traffic violation
 Specific code (CJIS offense table; select drop down) and  Type of violation (select one)
 Moving violation
 Equipment violation
 Non-moving violation, including registration violation o Reasonable suspicion that person was engaged in criminal activity  Specific Code (drop down; select primary if known) and  Basis (select all applicable)
 Officer witnessed commission of a crime
 Matched suspect description
 Witness or victim identification of suspect at the scene  Carrying suspicious object
 Actions indicative of casing a victim or location
 Suspected of acting as a lookout
 Actions indicative of a drug transaction
 Actions indicative of engaging in a violent crime
 Other reasonable suspicion of a crime
o Known to be on parole/probation/PRCS/mandatory supervision o Knowledge of outstanding arrest warrant/wanted person o Investigation to determine whether person was truant
o Consensual encounter resulting in search
o Possible conduct warranting discipline under Education Code sections 48900, 48900.2, 48900.3, 48900.4, and 48900.7 (select specific Educ. Code section & subdivision) o Determine whether student violated school policy
A brief explanation is required regarding the reason for the stop and must provide additional detail beyond the general data values selected (250-character maximum).

11. Stop Made in Response to a Call for Service (Yes/No) (Select “Yes” only if stop was made in response to call for service, radio call, or dispatch)
12A. Actions Taken by Officer(s) During Stop (select all that apply) o Person removed from vehicle by order
o Person removed from vehicle by physical contact
o Field sobriety test conducted
o Curbside detention
o Handcuffed or flex cuffed
o Patrol car detention
o Canine removed from vehicle or used to search
o Firearm pointed at person
o Firearm discharged or used
o Electronic control device used
o Impact projectile discharged or used (e.g. blunt impact projectile, rubber bullets or bean bags) o Canine bit or held person
o Baton or other impact weapon used
o Chemical spray used (e.g. pepper spray, mace, tear gas, or other chemical irritants) o Other physical or vehicle contact
o Person photographed

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Additional data values for the stop of a student in a K-12 public school are in listed in red.

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o Asked for consent to search person
 Consent given
 Consent not given
o Search of person was conducted
o Asked for consent to search property
 Consent given
 Consent not given
o Search of property was conducted
o Property was seized
o Vehicle impound
o Admission or written statement obtained from student
o None
12B. Basis for Search (if search of person/property/both was conducted; select all that apply) o Consent given
o Officer safety/safety of others
o Search warrant
o Condition of parole/probation/PRCS/mandatory supervision o Suspected weapons
o Visible contraband
o Odor of contraband
o Canine detection
o Evidence of crime
o Incident to arrest
o Exigent circumstances/emergency
o Vehicle inventory (for search of property only)
o Suspected violation of school policy
A brief explanation is required regarding the basis for the search and must provide additional detail beyond the general data values selected (250-character maximum). This field is not required if basis for search is “condition of parole/probation/PRCS/mandatory supervision.” 12C. Contraband or Evidence Discovered, if any (during search/in plain view; select all that apply) o None
o Firearm(s)
o Ammunition
o Weapon(s) other than a firearm
o Drugs/narcotics
o Alcohol
o Money
o Drug paraphernalia
o Suspected stolen property
o Cell phone(s) or electronic device(s)
o Other contraband or evidence
12D. Basis for Property Seizure (if property was seized; select all that apply) o Safekeeping as allowed by law/statute
o Contraband
o Evidence
o Impound of vehicle

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Additional data values for the stop of a student in a K-12 public school are in listed in red.

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o Abandoned property
o Suspected violation of school policy
Type of Property Seized (select all that apply)
o Firearm(s)
o Ammunition
o Weapon(s) other than a firearm
o Drugs/narcotics
o Alcohol
o Money
o Drug paraphernalia
o Suspected stolen property
o Cell phone(s) or electronic device(s)
o Vehicle
o Other contraband or evidence

13. Result of Stop (select all that apply)
o No action
o Warning (verbal or written): Code/ordinance cited (drop down) o Citation for infraction: Code/ordinance cited (drop down) o In-field cite and release: Code/ordinance cited (drop down) o Custodial arrest pursuant to outstanding warrant
o Custodial arrest without warrant: Code/ordinance cited (drop down) o Field Interview Card completed
o Noncriminal transport or caretaking transport (including transport by officer, transport by ambulance, or transport by another agency)
o Contacted parent/legal guardian or other person responsible for the minor o Psychiatric hold (Welfare & Inst. Code, §§ 5150, 5585.20.) o Referred to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (e.g., ICE, CBP) o Referral to school administrator
o Referral to school counselor or other support staff

14. Officer’s Identification (I.D.) Number (prepopulated field)

15. Officer’s Years of Experience (total number of years worked as a peace officer)

16. Type of Assignment of Officer (select one)
o Patrol, traffic enforcement, field operations
o Gang enforcement
o Compliance check (e.g. parole/PRCS/probation/mandatory supervision) o Special events (e.g. sports, concerts, protests)
o Roadblock or DUI sobriety checkpoint
o Narcotics/vice
o Task force
o K-12 public school, including school resource officer or school police officer o Investigative/detective
o Other (manually specify type of assignment)

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RELEVANT LEGISLATION ENACTED IN 2022
This Report highlights legislation enacted in 2022 that may impact the Board’s work towards eliminating racial and identity profiling and that may require updated trainings for officers and revisions to agencies’ policies and procedures. Below is an overview of the primary changes resulting from the enacted legislation.

AB 2773 – Stops: Notification By Peace Officers
Assembly Bill 2773 creates a new requirement for law enforcement officers related to traffic and pedestrian stops. Beginning on January 1, 2024, law enforcement officers must state the reason for any traffic or pedestrian stop before they can engage in questioning related to a criminal investigation or traffic violation. The only exception to this rule is when an officer reasonably believes that withholding the reason is necessary to protect life or property from imminent danger, such as in cases of terrorism or kidnapping. AB 2773 codifies this rule by adding section 2806.5 to the Vehicle Code. The bill also amends Vehicle Code section 1656.3 to include an advisement that law enforcement officers must provide the reason for a traffic or pedestrian stop in the California Driver’s Handbook. Lastly, the Bill amends the data reporting requirements in Government Code section 12525.5. Section 12525.5 requires law enforcement agencies to report various data elements regarding all stops conducted in a calendar year. AB 2773 expands those reporting requirements to include the reason given to the person stopped at the time of the stop.

AB 2537 – Vehicles: Driver Education
Assembly Bill 2537 adds section 1656.1 to the Vehicle Code to require the Department of Justice, in conjunction with POST, to create a video demonstrating the proper conduct of a peace officer and an individual during a traffic stop. This video must be posted on the Department’s website. AB 2537 also adds section 12800.6 to the Vehicle Code, requiring that applications for a driver’s license (including applications for renewals or duplicate licenses) inform the applicant of the video demonstrating proper conduct during a traffic stop. Lastly, the bill amends Vehicle Code section 11113 and Education Code section 51220.4 to require showing this video during driver’s education courses.

AB 2229 – Peace Officers: Minimum Standards: Bias Evaluation Assembly Bill 2229 amends section 1031 of the Government Code to change the standards for peace officer employment. The bill adds a requirement that peace officers be evaluated for and be found free from bias against race or ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. The bill also increases the number of educational institutions from which peace officer applicants may receive degrees in order to apply. Like Senate Bill 960, Assembly Bill 2229 revises accreditation standards for acceptable schools to include schools recognized by Cognia, a non-profit accreditation agency.

AB 655 - California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act Assembly Bill 655 creates the California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act (CLEAR). Peace officer background investigations must now include an inquiry into whether a candidate for specified peace officer positions has engaged in membership in a hate group, participation in any hate group activity, or advocacy of public expressions of hate. Certain findings would disqualify a person from employment.

The law also requires an agency to investigate any internal or public complaint that alleges that a peace officer is or was a hate group member, participated in any hate group activity, or advocated public expressions of hate. Certain findings would require the employing agency to remove that peace officer from appointment. The bill also requires the Department of Justice to adopt and disseminate guidelines for the investigation and adjudication of these complaints by local agencies. Records of any sustained complaint that a peace officer has engaged in membership in a hate group, participation in any hate group activity, or advocacy of public expressions of hate are not confidential.

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AB 988 - Mental Health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Assembly Bill 988 creates a new phone number, 988, to handle mental health and crisis intervention incidents. The 988 number launched on July 16, 2022. The bill also requires health care service plans and insurers to cover medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder, including behavioral health crisis services, provided by a 988 center or mobile crisis team, regardless of whether the service is provided by an in-network or out-of-network provider, at the in-network costsharing amount. The cost for the 988 number will be partially funded by a $0.08 surcharge on phone lines. AB 988 mandates a five-year implementation plan to include the following:
(A) access to crisis counselors through telephone call, text, and chat, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week;
(B) mobile crisis teams that operate statewide 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and can respond to individuals in crisis in a timely manner. Mobile crisis teams would respond to suicidal or behavioral health calls made or routed to 988 as an alternative to law enforcement, unless there is a medical emergency, someone is in immediate danger, or there is a reported crime where law enforcement is mandated to respond by state or federal law; and
(C) access to crisis receiving and stabilization services.

SB 960 - Public Employment: Peace Officer Citizenship
Senate Bill 960 amends section 1031 of the Government Code to change the standards for peace officer employment. It changes the requirement that a peace officer or member of California Highway Patrol be a citizen of the United States to allow any individual legally authorized to work in the United States to become a peace officer or California Highway Patrol member. The bill also increases the number of educational institutions from which peace officer applicants may receive degrees.

AB 2147 – Freedom to Walk Act
Assembly Bill 2147 amends the Vehicle Code.1162 The bill decriminalizes pedestrian roadway violations (i.e., jaywalking). Officers are limited to stopping individuals for pedestrian roadway to instances when it is reasonable to assume that there is an immediate danger of collision with a moving vehicle. The bill also requires the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding statewide pedestrian-related traffic crash data and any associated impacts to traffic safety, including an evaluation of whether and how the changes made by this bill have impacted pedestrian safety.

SB 357 – Crimes: Loitering for the Purpose of Engaging in a Prostitution Offense Senate Bill 357 repeals Penal Code sections 653.20 and 653.22, which prohibited loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution. The Bill also adds section 653.29 to the Penal Code, allowing people convicted of loitering with intent to commit prostitution to petition for recall or dismissal of their conviction. Lastly, the Bill amends Evidence Code section 782.1, Penal Code sections 647.3, 653.23, and 1203.47, Public Utilities Code section 99171, and Welfare and Institutions Code sections 18259 and 18259.3 to support the decriminalization of loitering with intent to commit prostitution.

AB 256 - Criminal Procedure: Discrimination
Assembly Bill 256 amends sections 745 and 1473 of the Penal Code, which are criminal procedure codes. The bill requires a criminal trial court, upon a showing of good cause, to order prosecutors 1162 Specifically, the bill amends sections 21451, 21452, 21453, 21456, 21461.5, 21462, 21950, 21953, 21954, 21955, 21956, 21961, and 21966 of, and adds and repeals Section 21949.5.

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2023 RIPA Report
to share with a convicted individual evidence related to a criminal conviction or sentence, if that conviction or sentence was based on race, ethnicity, or national origin. There may be limitations on what must be shared, if the evidence is constitutionally private or contains privileged information.

Previously, an individual could present statistical evidence or aggregate data about convictions, sentences, and race. AB 256 would allow an individual to also present non-statistical evidence to show that the conviction was based on race, ethnicity, or national origin. Courts considering the evidence or data must view the evidence as a whole to determine whether a significant difference exists from similar convictions or sentences showing race, ethnicity, or national origin was a factor leading to the conviction or sentence. If the court considers data , the court must consider whether differences in the data or the availability of data were caused by systemic and institutional racial bias, racial profiling, and historical patterns of racially biased policing and prosecution.

AB 2418 – Crimes: Justice Data Accountability and Transparency Act Assembly Bill 2418 creates the Justice Data Accountability and Transparency Act (JDATA). The Act requires state and local prosecutorial agencies to begin collecting various data elements in each criminal case, including information about the case, defendant, victim, charges, initial court appearance, plea bargains, diversion and collaborative court program offerings, and disposition of the case and any post-conviction proceedings. Agencies must report these data to the Department of Justice beginning on June 1, 2027, and DOJ will begin publishing the data on June 1, 2028. Reporting and publication of this data will eventually occur on a monthly basis. The Act also creates the Prosecutorial Transparency Advisory Board. The Advisory Board, along with the DOJ, must create a data dictionary containing standardized definitions for each data element to be collected under the Act by July 1, 2024. The advisory board will also provide guidance to the DOJ regarding any draft rules, regulations, policies, plans, reports, or other decisions made in relation to the Act.

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Agenda Staff Report
Item type: REGULAR AGENDA (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: Council Workshop on Potential Reach Code Related to All-Electric Buildings and Electric Vehicle Charging
Date: April 25, 2023
Written by: Autumn Buss, Associate Planner
Recommendation
It is recommended by the Community Development Department that the City Council conduct a workshop and provide direction to staff on potential all-electric building and electric vehicle charging reach code amendments to the Building Code.

I. Background
The State of California adopts updated mandatory building codes every three years, addressing the main branches of construction such as building, fire, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical, as well as codes pertaining to energy consumption and efficiency, green building, and waste reduction. The mandatory building codes, known collectively as the California Building Standards Code (Building Code), are organized into 13 parts, including the Fire Code, Energy Code, Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen), Plumbing Code, etc. In addition, the State provides options for two levels of voluntary provisions, known as “Tier 1” and “Tier 2,” that set forth a progressively higher baseline of standards than the mandatory minimums established in the Building Code and are generally related to “green” building materials and practices and energy efficiency.

Following state adoption, local jurisdictions are required to adopt the updated mandatory Building Code. The voluntary Tiers 1 and 2 are considered to be “reach codes” in that they “reach” beyond the minimum requirements of the Building Code, and jurisdictions may adopt those in their entirety or in part. Jurisdictions may also adopt custom reach codes with specific provisions that meet the individual needs of their climate, geography, or topography, as long as the provisions are equal to or more stringent than the mandatory Code.

Reach codes are frequently used as a tool to meet climate change goals related to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. To date, 65 jurisdictions in California having implemented “building electrification” or “all-electric” reach codes prohibiting the use of natural gas or propane in newly constructed buildings. The need to reduce natural gas use is supported by numerous findings of its negative impacts, including the recent action by the Bay Area Air Quality

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Management District to require the transition of new residential and commercial gas furnaces and water heaters to zero-NOx (nitrogen oxide) starting in 2027 due to the significant air pollution from standard natural gas appliances.

A number of adopted reach codes (44 jurisdictions) have also set forth additional requirements for electric vehicle (EV) charging, in a further effort to reduce fossil fuel use. In addition, six jurisdictions in California have adopted reach codes that require installation of solar photovoltaics (PVs) in excess of the Building Code requirements.

Local jurisdictions that have adopted “all-electric” reach codes to require electric-only infrastructure in new buildings include Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Corte Madera, Fairfax, San Anselmo, San Rafael, and the Counties of Sonoma and Marin. The same jurisdictions in Marin County have also adopted EV charging requirements in their reach codes, although to date the only Sonoma County jurisdiction to have done so is Cotati. Cotati adopted Tier 1 voluntary measures related to EV charging as part of its adoption of the 2022 State Code, which took effect January 1, 2023.

The goals of this workshop are to clarify the provisions of Cotati’s adopted 2022 Building Code that pertain to building electrification, solar photovoltaics (PV), and electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities; review reach code options to reduce the use of fossil fuels within the City; and for Council to provide direction to staff on reach code amendments that go above and beyond the requirements of the City’s current Code.

In preparation of this report, staff researched a number of other jurisdictions’ reach codes and consulted with the reach code experts at the California Energy Codes and Standards program (www.localenergycodes.com).

II. Analysis/Discussion
A. 2022 California Building Standards Code Requirements The adopted 2022 Building Code currently requires a variety of measures to reduce gas and propane use and reduce climate impacts through building electrification, PVs, and EV charging.

Cotati adopted the State Code’s mandatory measures related to building electrification and PVs, and the Tier 1 voluntary measures related to EV charging.

Building Electrification
• In newly constructed residential buildings, electric heat pumps are required by default under the Code (gas appliances may be installed if other measures are installed to offset the compliance penalty, as the base against which the proposed project is compared assumes a heat pump). Electric heat pump water heaters are required by default for new single family buildings. In new multifamily buildings, any individual gas water heater must be instantaneous and central gas water heating must incorporate solar thermal to cover 20% of the demand. Heat pump space heating is also required by default for new multifamily.

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• All new residential buildings must be 100% “electric ready,” which means that they may include gas infrastructure and appliances, but must also be constructed with the infrastructure to accommodate electric stoves, electric clothes dryers, heat pumps, and energy storage systems (in single family only). Electric appliances are not required to be installed; rather, the infrastructure, such as electrical panel, conduits, and chases, is installed so that the building is ready for future installation of electric appliances. Central hot water infrastructure in multifamily buildings is exempt from the electric ready requirement.

Solar photovoltaics (PV)
• All newly constructed single-family homes, duplexes, and low-rise multifamily (3 stories or less) must have a solar PV system installed and be storage “battery-ready,” with some exceptions available for shading, home size, and other circumstances. System size is based on the conditioned areas of the home and the number of dwelling units. In Cotati, the minimum system size required by Code is approximately 1.2W/sqft (2.5kW for a 2,000 sqft home) for single family and 1.8W/sqft for multifamily dwellings. • All newly constructed high-rise (4+ stories) multifamily and certain commercial buildings, including grocery, office, financial institutions, retail, school, warehouse, auditorium, convention center, hotel/motel, library, medical office, building/clinic, and theaters, must have a solar PV system and battery storage system installed. The size of the required PV system ranges from 1.8 to 3.1 W/sqft of conditioned space, according to occupancy (less for warehouses). The battery storage system must be sized in proportion to the PV system.

Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging CALGreen Tier 1
Refer to Attachment 1: EV Charging Glossary for more information and definitions. • One parking space in newly constructed single family and duplex homes must be Level 2 EV Ready
• All newly constructed multifamily or hotel/motel must have 35% of parking spaces EV Ready with Low Power Level 2 EV Charging Receptacles
• New multifamily or hotel/motel with 20+ units/rooms must have an additional 10% of spaces with Level 2 EVSE installed (for a total of 45% spaces equipped to charge EVs) • Existing multifamily: 10% of added or altered parking spaces must be Level 2 EV Capable (requirement also triggered when electrical systems or lighting are added or altered)
• New non-residential: 20% Level 2 EV Capable (Min. 2 spaces) and 10% Level 2 EVSE EV Charging: Intervening Code Change
The California Building Standards Commission is poised to adopt an “intervening,” or midcycle, code update that would go into effect July 1, 2024, and would significantly amend the EV charging requirements in the Code, particularly those relating to multifamily and hotels/motels.

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The proposed update is still subject to change as it goes through the approval process, but its key provisions are expected to be as shown in the below table:

Proposed Intervening Cycle—Multifamily, Hotel/Motel EV Charging Cotati will need to adopt the updated Code at the mandatory level, or may choose to adopt the Tier 1 or Tier 2 voluntary standards, unless the City decides to adopt a more stringent custom reach code related to EV charging, in advance of July 1, 2024. The proposed changes for nonresidential projects are less significant. The requirements for added and altered spaces (which currently apply only to multifamily) would be extended to nonresidential buildings and the requirements for off-street medium- and heavy-duty charging would be extended to additional nonresidential occupancies. There are no substantial changes proposed to EV charging requirements for single family homes and duplexes.

Refer to Attachment 2: Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances for more information.

B. Local Reach Code Examples—All-Electric
Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Petaluma, and the Counties of Sonoma and Marin provide some local examples of all-electric reach codes. Each of these jurisdictions have gone beyond the minimum electrification requirements and mandated “all-electric buildings,” which means buildings that are built to use electricity only for all the following systems: space heating, water heating (including pools/spas), cooking appliances, and clothes drying appliances, with no natural gas or propane appliances or plumbing in the building or even on the property (outdoor portable appliances excepted). These jurisdictions require that newly constructed buildings—and in some case, substantial renovations and additions—be all-electric, with various restrictions and exceptions.

Santa Rosa 2019 and 2022:
• The City of Santa Rosa 2019 all-electric reach code was a pioneer effort in Sonoma County and is so far the only reach code in the county to be legally challenged and prevail

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• Applies to newly constructed low-rise (up to 3 stories) residential buildings • Prohibits gas fireplaces and barbeques as well as all appliances Healdsburg 2022:
• All-electric applies to newly constructed residential and non-residential buildings • Also applies to existing buildings when removal of the structure’s exterior wall and roof/ceiling areas exposes 75% or more of the existing building envelope, or where any portion of a building’s exterior is preserved but the interior is removed • Exception for residential cooking appliances and direct-vent sealed-combustion fireplaces • Exceptions for non-residential: Cooking appliances and direct-vent sealed-combustion fireplaces, correction of health/safety violations, essential facilities; Utility Director discretion for special cases (business-related necessity, public health/safety) • Exceptions are required to be pre-wired for future electric • Prohibits gas decorative appliances
Sonoma County 2022
• All-electric applies to all newly constructed single family residential buildings • .Exceptions: Cooking appliances and generators
• Prohibits gas decorative appliances
Petaluma 2021
• All-electric applies to all newly constructed residential and non-residential buildings • Also applies to substantial building alterations (alteration of an existing building involving removal of 51%+ of exterior walls or addition of 51%+ of gross floor area) • Exceptions: Essential services buildings that are electric-ready, back-up power facilities, portable propane appliances used outdoors, Building Official waiver for special circumstances
Marin County 2022
• All-electric applies to all newly constructed residential and non-residential buildings • Also applies to existing buildings that involve removal or substantial modification of more than 75% of the linear sum of a building’s exterior walls for each story • Exceptions: Emergency generators for essential services and multifamily; portable propane appliances used outdoors; as needed for industrial uses; food service businesses
• Exceptions are required to be electric-ready

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• Prohibits gas fireplaces and barbeques
Application of All-Electric Reach Codes to Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) Attached ADUs where the existing primary dwelling unit has gas or propane are generally exempted by the above reach codes. In addition, the Energy Code considers attached ADUs to be additions, not new construction. However, attached ADUs may meet the substantial remodel definition depending on size and configuration, which would trigger the all-electric requirement in the above reach codes, as though they were new construction. Detached, newly constructed ADUs are generally subject to the all-electric requirements of these reach codes.

Application of All-Electric Reach Codes to Remodels and Additions to Existing Buildings Whether to apply an all-electric requirement to substantial remodels is one of the decisions jurisdictions may consider when developing a reach code. It should be noted that most of the cost savings from all-electric construction is the result of eliminating gas infrastructure, and these savings may not be available in all remodels and additions. However, a substantial remodel or addition may warrant application of the all-electric requirement, as seen in the above reach codes.

C. Reach Code Examples—EV Charging
While Cotati is the only jurisdiction in Sonoma County to date to have adopted a reach code that addresses EV charging standards, many others in the Bay Area and Southern California have done so. Below are some examples of EV charging reach codes. Refer to Attachment 2: Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances for more information about EV charging reach codes in California.

Marin County 2022
• Single Family. The first space in a new home must have a Level 2 EV Ready receptacle (Tier 1). Applies to ADUs when a panel upgrade is needed. • Multifamily. 100% of tenant spaces in new multifamily developments must have access to EV charging (15% with EV Chargers installed and 85% with Low Power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles installed).
• Hotels and Motels. 45% of the spaces in new developments must have access to EV charging (10% with EV Chargers installed and 35% with Low Power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles installed). Another 10% must have capacity and raceways to support future Level 2 chargers.
• Nonresidential. 10% of the spaces in new developments must have EV Chargers installed. Another 20% must have capacity and raceways to support future Level 2 chargers.

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• Existing multifamily and nonresidential properties that modify their parking lot and/or electrical panel must follow the requirements for new projects (affected areas only). Modifications include resurfacing and alterations to the curbs (an extension of Code minimum trigger for multifamily projects).

Mountain View 2022
• Single Family. The first space in a new home must have a Level 2 EV Ready receptacle (Tier 1) and the second space must be Level 1 EV Ready (capacity and raceway). Extends to 100% of guest parking in developments (15% with EV Chargers installed, and 85% with Low Power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles installed).
• Multifamily. 100% of tenant spaces in new developments must have access to EV charging (40% with EV Chargers installed and 60% with Low Power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles installed).
• Hotels and Motels. 15% of the spaces in new developments must have EV Chargers installed. Another 30% must have capacity and raceways to support future Level 2 chargers.
• Nonresidential. 15% of the spaces in new developments must have EV Chargers installed. Another 30% must have capacity and raceways to support future Level 2 chargers.
• One of every 100 guest spaces in new multifamily, hotel/motel and single family developments must have a DC fast charger installed.
• Existing multifamily and nonresidential properties that modify their parking lot and/or electrical panel are required to install EV Chargers at 10% of the affected spaces and upgrade existing EV Capable spaces to Level 1 EV Ready.

Daly City 2022
• Single Family. The first space in a new home must have a Level 2 EV Ready receptacle (Tier 1) and the second space must be Level 1 EV Ready (capacity and raceway).
• Multifamily (large, 20 units or more). 100% of tenant spaces in new developments must have access to EV charging. Full power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles must be provided in parking spaces for the first 20 dwelling units and 25% of all additional units. Level 1 EV Ready spaces must be provided for the balance of the units.

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• Multifamily (small, less than 20 units). 100% of tenant spaces in new developments must have access to EV charging. Spaces must have full power Level 2 EV Ready receptacles for each unit.
• Requirements are lower for affordable housing.
• Office Projects. New projects with more than 10 spaces or more must include EV Chargers for 10% of the spaces and Level 1 EV Ready receptacles for 10% of the spaces. Another 30% must have capacity and raceways to support future Level 2 chargers.

D. Reach Code Options for Cotati
Through research into other jurisdictions’ reach codes and consultation with industry experts, staff have identified its key recommendations related to reach codes, and options for the Council to consider. It is important to note that a reach code, which would amend the CALGreen portion of the Code, would need to be re-adopted every three years with the updated Building Code. This triennial adoption cycle allows for adjustment of reach codes to meet evolving needs over time.

All-Electric Building Reach Code
Staff recommendation:

1. Apply to all newly constructed buildings--residential and non-residential a. Including detached ADUs

2. Apply to substantial remodels/additions--residential and non-residential:
a. Substantial Remodel: An existing building which undergoes any alteration of floor area that is greater than 50% of the existing gross floor area, if the existing gross floor area exceeds 1,200 square feet:
i. Remodeled area must be all-electric; or
ii. Remodeled area must be made electric-ready
b. Substantial Addition: An existing building which undergoes any addition of floor area that exceeds 50% of the existing gross floor area, if the added floor area exceeds 600 square feet, with the added area being made all-electric (i.e., no extension of gas plumbing to the addition)

3. Apply all-electric requirement to entire property, not just buildings

4. No extension of gas plumbing to a new building (as in the case of a new detached ADU) on a property with existing mixed-fuel buildings

5. Define all-electric as no “fuel gas” to preclude plumbed propane

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6. Allow certain exceptions, and require that excepted buildings be made electric-ready:

Potential exceptions to All-Electric code:
a. Residential buildings
i. Attached ADUs in existing mixed-fuel residences
ii. Allow other exceptions on a case-by-case basis per Building Official, for extenuating circumstances/infeasibility
iii. Require that excepted buildings be made electric-ready b. Nonresidential Buildings
i. Restaurants, commercial cooking, and food preparation; certain industrial and manufacturing processes; essential facilities (public safety, medical); emergency/backup generators
ii. Allow other exceptions on a case-by-case basis per Building Official, for extenuating circumstances or infeasibility
iii. Require that excepted buildings be made electric-ready EV Charging Reach Code
Staff Recommendation

1. Maintain single family and duplex requirements at the current Tier 1 level (One parking space must be Level 2 EV Ready)

2. Adopt the proposed code changes under the Intervening Cycle Code Update at the Mandatory level for multifamily and nonresidential projects (to take effect in mid2023, in advance of the Update’s July 1, 2024 effective date), including:
a. 50% of multifamily and hotel spaces to have access to EV charging b. Extending charging requirements to certain non-residential additions and alterations
c. Extending requirements for off-street medium and heavy duty charging to offices and manufacturing projects

3. Consider additional EV Charging measures for next Building Code cycle (2025) Photovoltaics
Staff does not feel that a reach code relative to PVs would be useful for Cotati at this time, because most occupancies are now required to have some PV, typically between 1.8 and 3.1 watts per square foot of conditioned floor area based on occupancy (less for warehouses).

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the logistics of incorporating PV and storage into projects with roof space limitations and multiple electric accounts. In addition, while there is an opportunity to expand PV requirements for new all-electric single family homes, the incremental emissions reductions are relatively small (11%) compared to the costs ($7,000-8,000).

III. Next Steps
After reviewing the reach code options and staff recommendations at this workshop, the Council may provide direction to staff to develop an ordinance to amend the Building Code with provisions relating to all-electric buildings and/or EV charging. This amendment would update the CALGreen section of the Code. If so directed, staff would target a June 2023 Council meeting for the first reading of the ordinance. If adopted, the reach code ordinance would subsequently need to be approved by the California Energy Commission and filed with the California Building Standards Commission.

Summary of City of Berkeley Case
It is worth noting that on April 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley, held that the City of Berkeley’s general prohibition on installing natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings is preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). The facts and analysis outlined in the Ninth Circuit’s decision should be taken into consideration as the City Council discusses the potential Building Code amendments outlined above.

In 2019, the City of Berkeley adopted an ordinance which prohibits Natural Gas Infrastructure in Newly Constructed Buildings, with some exceptions. The Restaurant Association brought an action against Berkeley, alleging that federal and state law preempted Berkeley’s ordinance. In California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that Berkeley’s ordinance is a “regulation concerning…energy use,” supporting the Court’s finding that the ordinance is preempted by a provision of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA). EPCA preempts certain regulations concerning the energy use of covered products, defined as certain consumer products, like refrigerators, dishwashers, and kitchen ovens, many of which are natural gas appliances used in households and restaurant kitchens. The Court found that Berkeley’s ordinance “prohibits the installation of necessary natural gas infrastructure on premises where covered natural gas appliances are used,” and that the ordinance prescribes a quantity of energy by reducing the energy consumed by natural gas appliances in new buildings to zero. Furthermore, the Court highlighted that “[i]nstead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result. It enacted a building code that prohibits natural gas piping into those buildings, rendering the gas appliances useless.” The Court stated that “by using the term ‘concerning,’ Congress meant to expand preemption beyond direct or facial regulations of covered appliances,” and the EPCA preemption includes preemption of building codes, like Berkeley’s ordinance, “that function as ‘energy use’ regulations.” However, a regulation in a local building code for new construction is not preempted if the building code complies with seven requirements, as stated in 42 USCA 6297(f).

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because EPCA is concerned with the end-user’s ability to use installed covered products at their intended final destinations.

There may be a way to enact a reach code that is consistent with the California Restaurant Association opinion, which staff could explore based on the City Council's policy direction.

Attachments:

1. EV Charging Glossary

2. Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances
Attachments:

Attachment 1 EV Charging Glossary (PDF)
Attachment 2 Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances (PDF)

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Attachment 1: Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Glossary
Charger, or Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE): A permanently installed device that can be plugged directly into an EV. Connection types vary and converters may be needed.

Receptacle: An outlet that can be used to charge an EV via portable charging equipment or which can be used to power a permanently installed charger.

Level 1 EV Ready: A parking space with the lowest level of charging, which requires 12 or more hours to reach a full charge. It consists of a dedicated (single purpose) standard 120-volt, 20-amp receptacle.

Level 2 EV Ready: A parking space with an electric circuit that can support a standard Level 2 charger, which has four times the power of a Level 1 charger. It typically provides an 80% charge in about 3 hours. It consists of a dedicated 208/240-volt, 40-amp circuit and receptacle that can be used by portable charging equipment or a permanently installed on-site charger.

Level 2 EV Capable: A parking space capable of supporting future Level 2 EV charging, which includes raceway and/or sheathed cable, panel capacity, and circuit breaker space for a 208/240- volt, 40-amp minimum branch circuit.

Low Power Level 2 Receptacle: A parking space with mid-level charging capacity that has half the power of Level 2 EV charging. It consists of a dedicated 208/240-volt, 20-amp circuit and receptacle that can be used by a portable charger. It is useful in situations where electrical capacity is limited and where slower charging times can be tolerated.

DC Fast Charger: A parking space with the highest level of standard charging for automobiles.

It can typically provide an 80% charge in 20 minutes. It requires a minimum circuit capacity of 400 volts and 100 amps.

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Packet Pg. 116 Attachment: Attachment 1 EV Charging Glossary (Reach Code Workshop) 1 Attachment 2: Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances by the California Energy Codes and Standards Program for the City of Cotati, 4/12/23 The California Energy Codes and Standards Program conducted a limited investigation into 44 local EV charging reach code ordinances. These results have not been independently verified; refer to the ordinances to confirm details. The findings are presented below.

Note: Cotati has adopted 2022 CALGreen Tier 1 Standards related to EV Charging.

Single Family
Nearly all of the reach code ordinances examined include additional requirements for single family buildings, with roughly half adopting CALGreen Tier 1 (including Cotati, Corte Madera, Fairfax, Marin County, and San Rafael) and another half extending some EV requirements to a second parking space.

Table 1: Single Family EV Reach Code Ordinance Requirements Requirement Included in
Ordinances
Tier 1 – 1st space Level 2 EV Ready 19
Custom: 1st space Level 2 Ready
2nd space Level 1 EV Capable 17
Custom: 1st space Level 2 Ready
2nd space Level 1 EV Ready 5
Total 41
No requirements above State minimum 3
Other Occupancies (Multifamily, Nonresidential)
Nearly all the reach code ordinances examined include additional requirements for multifamily buildings, with a majority requiring 100% of spaces to either have installed chargers, or to be EV Ready or EV Capable. Offices and other nonresidential building requirements are commonly included. Fewer jurisdictions include requirements for hotel and motel developments.

The values in Table 2 below represent the number of ordinances that include the particular requirements. The percentages in the column headings represent the total number of spaces that are required to be EV Capable, EV Ready or have chargers installed within each occupancy.

Table 2: Multifamily, Hotel, Motel, and Nonresidential EV Reach Code Ordinance Requirements Occupancy Less than
50% of
spaces
>50 but
<100%
of spaces
100% of spaces
or 1/unit
Total None
Multifamily 3 11 28 42 2
Hotels/Motels 11 19 2 32 12
Offices 20 19 39 5
Nonresidential 32 5 1 38 6
Multifamily
• Almost all EV ordinances include requirements for multifamily projects • Most have custom requirements (not CALGreen Tiers)
o Over half require 100% of the spaces to have some combination of Level 2 chargers installed, EV Ready spaces and EV Capable spaces o Most of the other half have requirements that affect at least 50% of the spaces

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• Some have exclusions/reductions for affordable or public housing Table 3 below compares multifamily mandatory code requirements and voluntary tiers to a select sample of local reach codes, including those with the most extensive requirements (Los Altos and Solana Beach) and those from North Bay jurisdictions (Corte Madera, Fairfax, Marin County, and San Rafael).

Table 3: New Multifamily EV Charging—Sample Reach Codes Size Measure CALGreen
Mandatory
CALGreen Voluntary Existing Reach Codes
Tier 1 Tier 2 Los Altos & Solana
Beach North Bay
Small
(<20 units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10% 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40% 35%
Level 2 EV Ready 75%
Level 2 Chargers 25% 10%
Total 35% 35% 40% 100% 55%
Large
(20+ units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10% 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40% 35%
Level 2 EV Ready 75%
Level 2 Chargers 5% 10% 15% 25% 10%
Total 40% 45% 55% 100% 55%
Office Buildings
• Almost all EV ordinances include requirements for office building projects • Many ordinances treat office projects differently than other nonresidential projects • Most have custom requirements (not CALGreen Tiers)
o Almost half require more than 50% of the spaces to have some combination of Level 2 chargers installed, EV Ready spaces and EV Capable spaces • One (Los Altos), affects 100% of the parking spaces
Table 4 below compares office building mandatory code requirements and voluntary tiers to a select sample of local reach codes, including Los Altos, which has the most extensive requirements, and those from North Bay jurisdictions (Corte Madera, Fairfax, Marin County, and San Rafael).

Table 4: New Office EV Charging—Sample Jurisdictions
Measure CALGreen
Mandatory
CALGreen Voluntary Existing Reach Codes
Tier 1 Tier 2 Los Altos North Bay (Tier 1)
Level 2 EV Capable 15% 20% 30% 30% 20%
Level 1 EV Ready 20%
Level 2 Chargers 5% 10% 15% 50% 10%
Total 20% 30% 45% 100% 30%
Minimum Level 2
EV Capable 0 2 3 0 2
Other Nonresidential
• Almost all EV ordinances include requirements for nonresidential projects • Most have custom requirements (not CALGreen Tiers)

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Table 5 below compares nonresidential mandatory code requirements and voluntary tiers to a select sample of local reach codes, including those with among the most extensive requirements (Burbank and Santa Clara), and those from North Bay jurisdictions (Corte Madera, Fairfax, Marin County, and San Rafael).

Table 5: New Nonresidential Other EV Charging—Sample Jurisdictions Measure CALGreen
Mandatory
CALGreen Voluntary Existing Reach Codes
Tier 1 Tier 2 Burbank Santa Clara North Bay
(Tier 1)
Level 2 EV
Capable 15% 20% 30% 45% 35% 20%
Level 2 Chargers 5% 10% 15% 33% 35% 10%
Total 20% 30% 45% 78% 70% 30%
Minimum Level 2
EV Capable 0 2 3 3 1 2
Hotels and Motels
• About one third of the EV ordinances do not have requirements for hotels and motels • Most of the others have custom requirements (not CALGreen Tiers) o Of those with requirements, the majority require more than 50% of the spaces to have some combination of Level 2 chargers installed, EV Ready spaces, and EV Capable spaces
Table 6 below compares hotel and motel mandatory code requirements and voluntary tiers to a select sample of local reach codes, including those with the most extensive requirements (Los Altos and Solana Beach) and those from North Bay jurisdictions (Corte Madera, Marin County, and San Rafael).

Table 6: New Hotel/Motel EV Charging—Sample Jurisdictions Size Measure CALGreen
Mandatory
CALGreen Voluntary Existing Reach Codes
Tier 1 Tier 2 Los Altos &
Solana Beach North Bay
Small
(<20 units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10% 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40% 35%
Level 2 EV Ready 75%
Level 2 Chargers 25% 10%
Total 35% 35% 40% 100% 55%
Large
(20+ units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10% 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40% 35%
Level 2 EV Ready 75%
Level 2 Chargers 5% 10% 15% 25% 10%
Total 40% 45% 55% 100% 55%

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Packet Pg. 119 Attachment: Attachment 2 Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances (Reach Code Workshop) 4 Other EV Charging Ordinance Provisions
Other notable features in some of the ordinances include the following:
• Several extend requirements to specific additions or alterations to existing parking facilities, such as the addition of spaces, electrical modifications/upgrades, repaving, scope/valuation of renovation
• At least two jurisdictions have provisions for e-bike charging • One has requirements for DC Fast Chargers (100 or more spaces only) • At least one jurisdiction (San Francisco) includes disclosure requirements for EV Capable spaces to tenants
• Several collapse the large and small building categories for multifamily and hotels/motels • Some upgrade Lower Power Level 2 Receptacles to full power Level 2 receptacles • Many rely on existing language in state code to accommodate capacity reduction through automated load management systems (ALMS)
• Some provide exceptions or reductions for affordable or public housing • Some have minimum requirements for common/guest spaces Table 7 below summarizes EV requirements for certain additions and alterations.

Table 7: Summary of Reach Code Provisions Related to Additions/Alterations and EV Charging CALGreen Mandatory Existing Reach Codes
Multifamily
• 10% Level 2 EV Capable when spaces are
added, or electrical systems or lighting are
added or altered
Other Occupancies
• Intervening cycle proposal to extend to
nonresidential
Requirements triggered by some form of additions or
alterations
Single Family – Included in at least 11 local codes
• Most common - New spaces and panel upgrades
to be EV Capable or Ready
Other Occupancies
• Triggers
• Extend/adjust CALGreen triggers
(electrical modifications, new spaces) to
additional requirements
• Resurfacing, recurbing
• Substantial project (size/valuation)
• Multifamily -- At least 13 local codes
• Hotels/Motels -- At least 7 local codes
• Offices -- At least 10 local codes
• Other Nonresidential - At least 10 local codes
Proposed Changes to State Requirements
The State is now considering substantial changes to EV charger requirements that may go into effect on July 1, 2024. The proposed changes are summarized in Tables 8 and 9 below.

Table 8: Summary of Intervening Cycle Update for EV Charging Residential Nonresidential
Single Family
• No proposed changes (other than
clarifications)
Multifamily/Hotels/Motels
• Collapses small and large categories
• Increases requirements
• Specifies receptacle types and
minimum number of J1772 chargers
• Clarifies ADA requirements
• Clarifies signage
New Construction
• Extends off street medium and heavy duty to offices and manufacturing facilities
• Sets 1 EVSE minimum for Tiers 1 & 2
• Allows two Low Power Level 2 Receptacles to replace
one EV Capable space
• Various clarifications, including enumeration of power requirements
• Clarifies signage
Existing Facilities
• Extends to projects that increase the power
supply, including addition of PV

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Packet Pg. 120 Attachment: Attachment 2 Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances (Reach Code Workshop) 5 Table 9: Summary of Intervening Cycle Update for EV Charging for Multifamily, Hotels and Motels Size Measure CALGreen CALGreen Voluntary
Existing Mandatory Tier 1 Tier 2
Small (<20 units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40%
Large (> 20 units)
Level 2 EV Capable 10%
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 25% 35% 40%
Level 2 Chargers 5% 10% 15%
Proposed Mandatory Tier 1 Tier 2
All sizes
Low Power Level 2
Receptacles 40% 50% 55%
Level 2 Chargers 10% 15% 20%
Alternate for Multifamily
1 Low Power
L2 Receptacle per
unit plus 10% EVSE
1 Low Power
L2 Receptacle per
unit plus 20% EVSE

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Packet Pg. 121 Attachment: Attachment 2 Summary of EV Charging Reach Code Ordinances (Reach Code Workshop) Cotati City Council
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Subject: Information received after the agenda was posted.

Date: April 25, 2023
Written by: Kevin Patterson, Deputy City Clerk
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