Sebastopol City Council
April 14, 2026

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City Council Interim City Manager
Mayor Jill McLewis Mary Gourley
Vice Mayor Sandra Maurer [email protected]
Councilmember Phill Carter
Councilmember Neysa Hinton
Councilmember Stephen Zollman

CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING/WORKSHOP

CITY COUNCIL GOALS AND PRIORITIES WORKSHOP
Special Meeting (WORKSHOP) Minutes of Tuesday, April 14, 2026 As Approved by the City Council at their regular meeting of May 5, 2026.

CALL TO ORDER: Mayor McLewis called the meeting to order 6:00 p.m.

ROLL CALL:

Present: Mayor Jill McLewis
Vice Mayor Sandra Maurer
Councilmember Phill Carter
Councilmember Neysa Hinton
Councilmember Stephen Zollman

Absent: None
Staff: Interim City Manager Mary Gourley
SALUTE TO THE FLAG : Mayor McLewis led the salute to the flag.

REMOTE PARTICIPATION : None
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The City of Sebastopol acknowledges that we live and work within the unceded ancestral homelands of the Southern Pomo and the Coast Miwok people. We pay our respect to the past, present, and future generations of these peoples, including the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.

City of Sebastopol City Council Goals and Priorities Setting Workshop CITY COUNCIL GOAL SETTING WORKSHOP: The City Council will conduct a goal setting workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to build alignment around the City Council’s Goals and Priorities for the upcoming fiscal year or year(s).

City Council will discuss and provide direction to City Staff on Proposed Goals and Priorities for Fiscal Year 26 -27. Staff will return to a future City Council meeting for formal adoption.

Interim City Manager Gourley presented the agenda report and process for the meeting.

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Mayor McLewis opened for public comment and stated additional public comment will be taken at the end of the meeting. There was no public comment.

The Council discussed the current goals and priorities; community input; and proposed goals and priorities based upon Council, community and staff input.

The Council went through line item by line item submitted priorities under the current Goals. A copy of the voting tabulation is attached to these minutes.

The Council directed City staff to prepare the priorities/tasks; review proposed budgets for items and return to a future City Council Meeting for review.

City Council Action: Council directed City staff to prepare the priorities/tasks; review proposed budgets for items and return to a future City Council Meeting for review.

Minute Order Number: 2026-103

ADJOURNMENT OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING
Mayor McLewis adjourned the April 14, 2026 Special Meeting at 8:48 pm to the next Regular City Council Meeting of Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 6:00 pm, Sebastopol Youth Annex, 425 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA.

Respectfully submitted:

Mary C. Gourley
Interim City Manager
Attachment(s):

Voting Tabulation of Priorities
Raw Zoom Minutes
VITAC Minutes

Agenda Item Number 1
GOAL 1 Community Vitality
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Downtown History Walk (bronze plaques or markers); “I � Sebastopol” week-long event.

One-Three Years; 12 - Plaques or some way of designating history as part of downtown; could go along with 125th Celebration
x x x
Withdrew WESCO Urban Multi-Sport Facility (youth
soccer/pickleball/basketball) at Youth Annex – shovel-ready Withdrew Volunteer Program with Coordinator Have a volunteer coordinator who would coordinator volunteer programs; staff to reach out to non profit
4 Charles Schulz Peanuts/Snoopy public art sculpture Public Arts Commission X x x x x City Welcome Signs (4) 4 entry way signs x x x
Benches x x x x x
Public Input
5 Preserve local character / support small businesses / avoid chain stores (42 responses)
6 Traffic, parking, and street configuration concerns (26) Change to Safety/review of Radar Sign/Options x x x X x 7 Infrastructure repairs including roads and sidewalks (20) 8 Downtown cleanliness, safety, and homelessness (16) Review of continued removal of old/and installation of new garbage cans; work with Chamber of Commerce to
provide/maintain flower baskets; conduct police patrols; utilize personnel for homeless (such as WCCS or HEART)
x x x x x
9 Public spaces, parks, arts, and community events (13) (Can merge with Staff Priority of 125th Centennial Celebration)
City Council ad hoc committee created for Centennial; work with organizations such as Chamber or BID for events to be held Downtown; bronze plaques
x x x x x
City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities
10 Pomo and public art Mural funded for $3000; Public Arts to continue work on this project
x x x x x
11 Festive Activities / Holiday Events Review of installing electricity in the downtown light poles rather than using solar lights for trees; work with Chamber on window decorations
x x x x x
12 Public Arts Committee Requested Return to Monthly Meetings Return to Monthly versus bi monthly meetings (staff to review work plan) Council asked to see and review all
committee/board/commission work plans.
x
VALUES/GOALS FOR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS/ARE CONSIDERED ROUTINE ITEMS INCORPORATED INTO DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS:
1 Support community events with city sponsorship and reduction of fees
2 Clean up of Graffiti/sidewalks
3 Land acknowledgement on all city agendas
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GOAL 2 Public Safety
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Joe Rodota Trail Corridor Safety – vegetation management, sight-line improvements, blackberry removal
x x x x x
2 Increase police foot patrols downtown (Merged with former approved Council goal: Keeping drugs out of town / drug enforcement/ needle exchange)
Increased downtown foot patrols by Police Personnel x x x x x Public Input
3 Homelessness enforcement / public space management / drug activity concerns (24) (This can be merged with item 2 above) Increased downtown foot patrols by Police Personnel; Increase patrols in City Parks and trails; report back on services provided by WCCS and HEART; are there any overlapping services.
x x x x x
4 Traffic enforcement and speed control (22); (Can be merged with Staff priority: Traffic enforcement; community policing; walking downtown; walking the plaza and parks routinely)
Increase Community Policing and Visibility and traffic
enforcement; Review of speed sign to change colors of lights other than red/white/blue (emergency lights)
x x x x x
5 Increased police visibility and community policing (18) Increase Community Policing and Visibility x x x x x 6 General satisfaction with current services (17)
City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities
7 Prioritize public safety through programs and initiatives that assist the Council, City departments and the community prepare for a major disaster and continue disaster preparedness with a regional approach
Finalize Emergency Operations Plan; Conduct Trainings for City Council and City Staff (especially City staff appointed to EOC during emergencies) (See Item 12 below)
x x x x x
8 Prioritize volunteer programs to enhance public safety, support the Police Department in non-enforcement duties and improve community relations by engaging in a variety of community service roles.

Continue to work on volunteer programs such as the
community service volunteer program; mounted horse unit x x x x x
9 Evaluate industry’s best practices in public safety delivery models and identify potential opportunities to adapt and expand capacities, including a focus on staffing strategies and limiting reliance on overtime
x x x x x
10 Explore Ways to Address Homelessness/ Pursue no additional costs and or low cost solutions to homelessness
a. Homelessness: Ordinance to restrict sleeping or sitting that blocks public access to buildings and on sidewalks x x x x x
b. County-wide allocation of Homelessness Resources x x x x x c. SAFE Program x x x x x
11 Update/Finalize Emergency Operations Plan o Finalize Emergency Operations Plan x x x x x o Conduct Trainings for City Council and City Staff
(especially City staff appointed to EOC during
emergencies)
x x x x x
12 Community Emergency Response Team – County free offerings Continue to work with County to distribute through all media channels all available trainings
x x x x x
13 Infrastructure for back up of City emergency systems (Emergency Operations Center Generator)
Add CIP project when Feasibility Study is complete for long term power. This will require a new generator at the Police Station to support the EOC.
x x x x x

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14 Coalition of Housing/Keep County or review non
-profit/change lead
agencies
x x x x x
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GOAL 3 Infrastructure
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Desktop feasibility study for Apple Blossom Trail ($35K); Separate Agenda Item to City Council x x x x x Gravenstein Trail development (coordinated with downtown street reconfiguration)
10 hours staff time; Ag and Open Space; Initiated with City x 2 Prioritize Laguna Wetlands Preserve care (including possible bathroom upgrade)
x x
3 Traffic Ad Hoc Committee. Form and convene a Traffic Committee to address traffic, parking, and street configuration concerns; would like staff to review with County directional signage (staff indicated they would reach out to County/Caltrans again)
Public Input
4 Roads, potholes, and repaving (58 responses) (Can merge City Staff Priority: Potholes/Street Resurfacing)
x x x x x
5 Parks and public spaces including Ives Park (18) (Can merge City Staff priority of Street Paving)
o Utilize the Pavement Management Program (PMP) as a
foundational tool to guide roadway investments.
o Combined PMP recommendations with the CIP Program,
available funding, and community priorities
x x x x x
6 Bike infrastructure and trails (14) Review opportunities for bike infrastructure (such as bike racks downtown) and explore feasibility of trails as projects permit.
x x x x x
7 Sidewalks and pedestrian safety (12) Sidewalk Repair Program; review of crosswalks for safety (working lights; painting; etc)
x x x x x
8 Water and sewer infrastructure (11) (Can Merge with City Staff Priority: Wastewater Pipes/Infrastructure/Sewer master plan; Well 4 (updates/funding))
o Flood Resiliency Master Plan
o Sewer Master Plan
o Water Master Plan
x x x x x
City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities x x x x x
9 Advance Project Readiness for Grant and Funding Opportunities o Develop a portfolio of projects to at least 50% design across infrastructure sectors.
o Position the City to compete effectively for state and federal funding by maintaining “shovel-ready” projects. o Leverage both internal expertise and specialized
consultant support, as appropriate, to efficiently advance design.
x x x x x

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10 Advance Implementation of the City’s Asset Management System o Continue building out and refining asset inventories, including stormwater and roadway systems, and
validating legacy data.
o Integrate work order tracking, maintenance activities, and inspection programs into a unified system.
x x x x x
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11 Deliver the FY 2026/27 Capital Improvement Program o Successfully implement the full suite of programmed CIP projects.
o Maintain focus on schedule, budget, and quality delivery. o Utilize a balanced approach of internal staff and
consultant resources to optimize project outcomes.
x x x x x
12 Storm Drain Plan – Removal of silt from Calder Creek Pipeline x x x x x 13 CUSP Grant Application for Phase I of Naturalization of Calder Creek and Ives Park
City staff working with CUSP to submit grant applications. x x x x x 14 Implementation of Rotary Centennial Plan (with revisioning of Ives Park)
Parks Ad Hoc Committee working with Rotary and CUSP for collaboration of projects.
x x x x x
15 SCTCA Funding Plan Cycle/Bodega Ave Bike Lanes. SCTCA Funding Plan Cycle 2
x x x x x
16 ADA walk way in Ives Park Completion of second phase x x x x x 17 Other:
a. Pursue Trench Cut ordinance so contractors working on City streets pay for repairs
x x x x x
b. Develop schedule for replacing major components of
buildings, and determine amount of funding needed and
to be set aside each year.
x x x x x
c. Fleet: Develop Replacement Plan & Electrification of City Fleet and State Air Board compliance
x x x x x
ADA Phase III Not on CIP because of conflict with CUSP
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GOAL 4 High Performance Organization
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Establish West County Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) – initial $20K scoping for legal/financial analysis to fund major capital needs (library/senior center, trails, etc.).

Subcommittee working to schedule meeting to discuss next steps needed to move forward.
x x x x
2 Strengthen collaborative working relationships between the City and recognized labor unions through proactive communication, transparent processes, and early engagement on operational, budgetary and workforce issues
Resend communication; x x x x x
Public Input
3 Council responsiveness and listening to community input (23) Responsiveness to community emails; x x x x x 4 Fiscal management and reducing waste (20) Is similar to financial goals 5 Staffing levels and filling City vacancies (11) (Can merge City Staff Goal: Support an environment of transparency, clear public communication, collaboration and teamwork. Enable the City to recruit, train and compete for talent and high-performing employees and ensure institutional knowledge is retained.)
City staff continues to recruit for vacant positions. As of the writing of this report, police staffing is close to full staffing; City has conducted two recruitments for Planning Director with no success and has initiated a second recruitment for Associate Planner. City staff is working to fill positions with permanent employees; but will also be reviewing a Request for Proposal for Planning Services dependent upon the outcome of the
recruitment.
x x x x x
6 Transparency, accountability, and public trust (10) City staff is committed to increase transparency, accountability and regaining public trust.
x x x x x
City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities
7 Proactively manage the loss of institutional knowledge by documenting procedures, practices and processes and succession planning efforts including the ability to provide for overlap in critical positions.

City staff is creating Continuity of Operation Plans for City personnel.
x x x x x
8 Municipal Code Updates – City Wide
Update ordinances and policies to reflect current regulatory requirements, sustainability goals, and operational needs.

Items Include but not limited to:
o Water loss and construction water use
o Sidewalk maintenance and responsibility
o Non-functional turf and water efficiency
x x x x x
9 Strengthen Development Review Integration with all Departments o Reestablish leadership in the development review process to ensure infrastructure consistency and longterm maintainability. x x x x x

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o Develop clear workflows and coordination protocols
across departments.
o Expand staff capacity and training to increase in-house capability, while continuing to partner with consultants where specialized expertise is needed.
10 City Council Protocols and Procedures Continue to work to create/update a City Council Protocol Handbook
x x x x x
11 Avoid builder remedy Develop and implement strategies to avoid triggering the builder’s remedy, including proactive housing element compliance and streamlined permitting processes
x x x x x
12 Housing Element Implementation/Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG) Priority Development Grant
x x x x x
13 Evaluate Replacement of SMART Gov permitting system/CIP Software or Other Software for Efficiency/Ease of Use
City staff to review / create RFP to review new vendors x x x x x 14 Shared Services City Management and Human Resources continue to see solutions; currently working with City of Cloverdale
x x x x x
VALUES/GOALS FOR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS/ARE CONSIDERED ROUTINE ITEMS INCORPORATED INTO DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS:
1 Achieving staffing/ Program targets that match best standards and efficiency/operational staffing efficiencies/baseline budgets/performance management
2 Restoring public trust
3 Improve Public Communications
4 Cross Training of Administrative Staff/Actions from Class and Comp Study and Staffing Assessment
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GOAL 5 Long Term Financial Sustainability
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Clean Energy Rate Competitiveness (SCPA 2026 IRP – GeoZone geothermal), GeoZone investment
2 Pavement Asset Management (preventive maintenance to avoid higher future costs).

Have Pavement Plan integrated with Counsil priorities ; 3 Review cost allocation plan and make necessary adjustments City to continue to review cost allocation methodology. x x x x x 4 Review pension/other benefits funding levels. Review uses of funds; increase/decrease funding amounts.; would like presentation from consultant on PERS liabilities as well as recommendations for contributions to pension fund
x x x x x
Public Input
5 Balanced budget concerns (32) (Can merge with City Staff Goal:

Ensure a fund's fiscal year-end balance estimate is positive; Balanced Budget)
6 New revenue generation such as tourism taxes (TOT) (28) (Can merge with City Staff Goal: Increasing Revenue Base; Diversify City Revenue base)
City staff meeting with Sonoma County Tourism to discuss ways to increase visitors to Sebastopol
x x x x x
7 Spending reductions and limiting consultant costs (24) Staff is working to implement protocols for limiting consultant costs and reviewing all City departments budgets for non-essential expenditures.
x x x x x
8 Interest in hotel development to increase TOT revenue (18) (Can merge with City Staff Goal: Barlow Hotel); and Facilitate the development of entitled and proposed hotels to increase local amenities and options for future visitors.)
o Staff currently working with developer to finalize
construction plans. Expected completion late fall. Expect permit to be ready to issue in February 2026 if developer continues to follow through.
o Continue to work with Hotel Sebastopol
x x x x x
City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities
9 Review and evaluate reserve policies, including reserve levels and criteria governing the use of reserves. Evaluate the long-term structural balance of revenues and expenditures to maintain a sustainable General Fund
x x x x x
10 Invest in technologies that minimize low value-add processes, increase transparency in communications and most efficiently utilize our staff. Commit to continuous improvement in the communication of City financial information through a variety of media acknowledging that the City’s professional staff and consultants are obligated to conform to accounting and reporting standards in order to provide balanced financial information that informs policymakers.

Programs such as Open Gov; easy to ready financial reports; x x x x x

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11 Strive to achieve cost recovery goals for fee-based services x x x x x 12 Reduce City utility costs by assessing and identifying strategies to increase efficiency and sustainability.
x x x x x
13 Conduct a comprehensive community engagement effort to build understanding of City services, finances, and budgetary limitations. x x x x x
14 Continue to evaluate the most cost-effective method to provide services at a specified level that provides the City with flexibility in all economic conditions, including the use of contracted services, shared services, and regular and limited-term employees. x x x x x
15 Implement efforts for improved business license compliance; strengthen code enforcement
x x x x x
16 Update Financial Policies/Ensure meets CIRA City staff to work with CIRA on updating financial policies x x x x x 17 Update of Impact Fees and More Information City Staff conducting a Request for Proposal to review City Impact Fees/Update of User Fees
x x x x x
18 Grants from Regional Bodies Continue to research available grants/Could consider Request for Proposals for Grant Writer
x x x x x
VALUES/GOALS FOR DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS/ARE CONSIDERED ROUTINE ITEMS INCORPORATED INTO DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS:
1 Quarterly Financial report/annual long term budget
reductions/Provides Quarterly Reports
a. General Fund: A quarterly update is an essential tool for monitoring and managing the financial health of an
organization. It provides a snapshot of the financial
performance over the past three months, allowing City
Council to assess progress, identify trends, and make
informed decisions.
b. Enterprise Fund: A quarterly update is an essential tool for monitoring and managing the financial health of an
organization. It provides a snapshot of the financial
performance over the past three months comparing with
the water rate study model, allowing City Council to
assess progress, identify trends, and make informed
decisions.
c. TRUST FUND - 115
2 Measure U Priority Resolution reviewed during Budget Process Incorporated into the budget process. 3 Publish Reports on Budget Illustrating Budget (Budget at a Glance)
Update Yearly Budget at a Glance
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GOAL 6 Economic Development
Strategies/Priorities ACTION /TASK
Carter Hinton Maurer McLewis Zollman
Councilmember Priorities
1 Renew Economic Gardening program budget; launch Downtown Business Listening Series + “Downtown Roots” recognition for longtenured businesses. (Can Merge with Staff Goal: City staff to work with to create a town hall or business event. Launch an Economic Gardening program that grows home-grown businesses—especially artisan food, farm-to-table, and boutique manufacturers—by boosting retention, expansion, and high-value job creation while using minimal City staff time and cost.)
x x x x x
Public Input
2 Strong support for local businesses and limiting chains (42) incorporate into community vitality
3 Reuse of vacant commercial spaces (Rite Aid, CVS, etc.) (22) x x x x x 4 Traffic and parking impacts on downtown businesses (20); incorporate into public safety and community vitality
5 Reduce regulations and streamline permitting (16) (Can be merged with City staff goal: Review of Zoning Codes for streamlining of permitting/Continue streamlining development processes/policies) x x x x x
6 Tourism promotion and hotel development (15) This can be merged with Goal 5; Item 6.

City Staff New/Revised/Carryover Priorities
7 Explore additional community event offerings and continue sponsoring non-profit events.

City continues to sponsor Events with Waiver of Fees and Co Sponsorship. This could be considered a part of day to day operations or merged with Goal 1; Item 9.
8 Identify and evaluate strategies to support local businesses, including bike racks, use of sidewalks for table service; parklets on selective streets; and selective street closures for events. x x x x x
9 Develop Economic Development Strategy City staff would recommend that when a new planning director is hired; they work with the Chamber of Sonoma County Tourism and Economic Development Board to generate visitors to the City.

Could be combined with Goal 5; Item 6.
x x x x x

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Hold on.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Dropbox.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I can just do one more.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Alright, if you're ready, I'm ready. 9 00:00:38.850 --> 00:00:43.990
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We are ready. All right, good evening, everyone.

Thank you for joining us for this special meeting.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is for our… our special meeting for our workshop, and let's see, I'm just gonna look on here. Mary, I guess if you want to just do a call to order first? Sure, we can do roll call. CouncilmemberCarter? I mean, roll call, sorry, yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Here. Councilmember Zollman? 12 00:01:01.190 --> 00:01:09.419
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Vice Mayor Maurer? Here. Mayor McLewis? Here. And Councilmember Hinton is on her way. Okay, thank you. So let's go ahead and just do the salute to the flag.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Let's see, let me get to this, next page. We have a land acknowledgement that we do every time.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm gonna just go ahead and read that. The City of Sebastopol acknowledges that we live and work within the unceded ancestral homelands of the Southern Pomo and the Coast Miwok people. We pay our respect to the past, present, and future generations of these peoples, including the Federated Indians of Grayton Rancheria.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So we are here to discuss the City Council goals and priorities, tonight, and, let's see… City Council…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Mary, where should I begin with what we have over here? Is that where you'd like me to start?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Sorry, I would say what the process is going to be for tonight. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So what we have is, 21 00:02:25.470 --> 00:02:42.500
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We did this last year, and we came up with a process, so I just wanted us to quickly, like, talk about what we're gonna do tonight, and maybe agree on the process again, so that we're all clear, and then that way we can move forward with everythingthat wehave. So the first thing is we're gonna have Mary introduce the item.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then, we have additional input from council members for anyone who wants to add anything to the current goals that we already have.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: and the documents that they sent to us, I know I have a few to add, and then we're going to open it up for public comment, and then after we have public comment, we're going to discuss the goals that are submitted by the community and the council, and have our full discussion and agreement. 24 00:03:05.450 --> 00:03:16.540
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we'll have public comment again after we're completely finished. But regardingthe process for direction ofthe staff onthe goals, last year we only moved goals forward that had unanimous support. 25 00:03:16.740 --> 00:03:27.000
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So tonight, we need to decide if we should continue that approach. Only goals with unanimous support move forward. We did that last year, and it prevented us from having 100 goals.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then, or we can consider, if we want to support goals that just have 3 or more council members, support. So that's one thing, and then the other,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: after we, have gone… after the goals have been presented and discussed, I'm gonna ask if there's unanimous consent or, or, you know, or, or the, the three or more… if we have the three or more. 28 00:03:51.930 --> 00:04:08.069
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we'll go from there, and if any member ejects, you know, we'll take the roll call and kind of figure out where we're at with that. And Mary is going to do like we did last year, where she'll have the goals up on the screen, and as we go along, she'll add them to that
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Correct? I'm not misstating, right? That's correct. The sheet that you will see, which is the last attachment in your agenda item, is all the goals that have been submitted from the community as far as themes. 30 00:04:21.380 --> 00:04:41.080
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: As well as from City Council members who have received them already,and then also goals from city staff that either are new or have been carryovers from last year. And then my recommendation is to do what we did last year, as we went through each one, either did majority vote or consensus, and then kept going through untilwe got tothe end. And then at thevery end, the directionwould be to staff. 31 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:54.219
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to review the goals as far as budgetary items, and then bring those back through the budget process, and then back to the City Council for full Agenda Item Number 1
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review. That was similar to how wedid it last year. Okay. All right, so Iguess the first question I have for everyone is.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: are we in agreement that we'll do it like we did last year with unanimous, all five of us in agreement before we move forward, or we havea different thought this year? So, Iguess we'll… I'll open that up to ask everyone. 33 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:30.359
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't know how to limit it if we did it by threes. It does seem like that became onerous for city staff, so we could start out… I'm just thinking out loud, right? We could start out unanimous, and if it's light, or we feel like we can go back or have the time, maybe we could go do three?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. I'd like to see the unanimous votes prioritized.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then, if there's time or staff availability, then the other votes could then
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Come up in the ranks, but to prioritize unanimous votes, because to me, it's significant if we havefive yeses. 38 00:05:52.380 --> 00:06:14.760
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I think, if I recall correctly, we kept track of the votes last year, I think, and then we went back to some fours. Is that… am I remembering that correct? Like, you know, to that point? I think that's what we did.So, so we went through, again, I can show on the screen, but in… it's attached at the very end. We went through the table. It showed each vote. It showed each council member's either support or not support, and then…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We tell… we tallied up how many had unanimous support at the end, but we did unanimous last year.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, I know that. What I'm saying is they're saying that they would like to revisit if we… if we're light on goals. I don't anticipate… So I was saying, like, maybe if we're keeping track of the number of votes, then if we go back to the vote… to the items that had 4 votes, that would probably be, like, the best process to go to that. Is that…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: First, the unanimous. Yeah, first the unanimous, and… If these goals are getting, you know, achieved, then… then the next would be the 4,0 and then three twos. That would be my suggestion, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yep.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Did you? Yeah, I mean, that sounds like what we did last year. I just want to do what we did last year, because we survived that and really want to survive this, so… Yeah, and we want to be efficient with this and not be here, you know, till 10 o'clock at night, so,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, so just to reiterate, so we're gonna go with the unanimous 5, and then if for some reason we don't have enough goals, then we can revisit the 4s after we have put together our 5, which I don't anticipate that happening, but… 45 00:07:24.270 --> 00:07:32.449
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. I have a question, for Mary. You have on the… the sixth, I think it was the sixth,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: item here in our packet. You had the goals listed in the votes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And one of those was for the mural, for the Pomo mural, which is already budgeted, so I wasn't sure why that was getting re-voted on. It's… it was coming back as a carryover, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: theoretically, you… it's… the goals were a year, so we should bring it back just to be voted on, but it is a carryover, so as we go through them, we could… we're going to show which ones are carryovers, but that is budgeted. It's still… it's not going to be done in this year, which is why we brought it back. Okay. So it is recommended for the upcoming year, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Right, and I'm trying to look on here and refresh myself. So the ones that are the carryovers, those are the ones that areat the end,right? Because I see carryover priorities that may have that category. Is that… Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: There… so there's, there's… as we go through them, they're… they're not categorized out, they're bolded in the attachment, so we'll put them up on the screen so we can show which ones says transparent. Okay. So I would recommend just going one… line through line, so that it's going to be easier, it's going to be more transparent, and I think it'll be more efficient. 52 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:47.129
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Alright, so if we're in agreement on that. 53 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:52.880
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I think that is the main thing that we needed, too, and apologies, I'm just trying to make sure we're,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If there's anything else. I think after that, Mary, it's for you to take over and start presenting. Thank you, Mayor. So, 55 00:09:02.060 --> 00:09:04.959
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: As you received, it was, I believe, 108 pages. 56 00:09:04.970 --> 00:09:22.200
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We, these are the goals. So, recently, the Council, when we talked about bringing this back as a goal session, to keep the current six goals, which were the community vitality, public safety, infrastructure, high-performance organization, long-termfinancialsustainability,and economicdevelopment. 57 00:09:22.280 --> 00:09:34.130
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, last year, we had about 68 goals. We completed 6of those. 41 ofthose are either going to becompleted by the end of this fiscal year, or those have been recommended to be carried over. 58 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:48.349
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This year, we did something differently. We did a community survey. So we sent out a community survey, we got about 240 responses, and attached to your staff report are those responses.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: There was strong themes in those responses, and the themes were… it was practical, near-term actions, fiscal responsibility. 60 00:09:56.530 --> 00:10:03.679
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then roads, local business, traffic and parking, homelessness and safety, and downtown vitality. 61 00:10:03.800 --> 00:10:08.040
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, those were the themes that came out of the 236,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: there were some other minor ones, but we talked… we took what those top themes were and brought them for the City Council to review. We did put those into that table at the very end that incorporated the community comments.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We also review the current priorities and goals from this year. Some of those, like I stated, have been completed, some will be completed, and then for those that we still need to work on, we need to put them into the forward year.

We've also brought those forward.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, tonight's action is to review the, the last attachment, which is a combination of the community input, the City Council goals. 65 00:10:43.030 --> 00:11:02.280
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The City staff is recommended to be carried over, and to get Council direction as to if you want to, add any additional tasks, so not goals, let me rephrase that. There's 6 key goals, so these would be the tasks and priorities. If the Council wanted to add any tasks or priorities, if you wanted to remove any of the current Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That are being proposed, andthen direct staff at the very end, once we have the vote taken, and after public comment, of course, to direct us to go look at what the budgetary impacts are going to be, and then bring those back through the budget process, andthen also to bringthose back as the final adoption of the goals.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So myfirst thing would be, ifthere's any questions of the current goals, orwould you… we'd like just to jump into the lineby line? You have the… all the pages, like I said, of the community comments. You were provided all those.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: all the council comments, that there may be goals that'll be added, then we go out to public comment, and then we can come back and go through the line-by-line items, if that works. Can I just clarify something, and I apologize if Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: They were in order of theme by the goals. Right.

Not by… not by, this is the one that… the whole one isn't necessarily… But if you look in the agenda report, there are how many responses to the top one, so it is in the staff report as to what was priority. I saw that, but I just wasn't sure if there was something… No, we just… we listed them under the goals and included them. So, like, for infrastructure, we included them as roads andtraffic.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, alright, I just wanted to make sure I was… 73 00:12:33.940 --> 00:12:36.800
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: understanding that properly, because I have that here. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Could you restate those top goals that the public stated?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: There were about 6 or 7 or 8. Sure. Can you state those? Sure. Let me just get back there real quick.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, it was, fiscal… Sorry. Their topthemes were, near term.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Practical and near-term solutions, and fiscal response…fiscalresponsibilityAnd then roads,traffic,parking. 79 00:13:16.740 --> 00:13:21.259
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Businesses, homeless and safety, and downtown vitality.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Which page is that on, Mary?Because I'm looking at somany different lists here.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That would have been in the staff report, where I just recapped it. It's not… Can that is the staff report? 82 00:13:34.890 --> 00:13:43.630
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it's just a recap of what we… we stated, or, I mean, what was stated. It was a theme that came out through all of those, all of the responses. 83 00:13:43.750 --> 00:13:57.320
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't have the exact page in front of me where the staff report where Iwrote that, but those are the… the themesthatwere coming through. Are those… are those single line items, or arethose grouped? Like, is traffic and parking…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: inonegroup, or those separate? They're groups, so it would be, depending on what the response was, so traffic and parking could be pedestrian safety, it could be speeders, so… or it could be, like, if there's sidewalk infrastructure for parking, that would go under the infrastructure. 85 00:14:16.190 --> 00:14:22.329
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Ifthe traffic… if it was related to speeding and enforcement, then that would go under public safety.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Thank you.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Kelsey. I have, the WESCO thing on there, and it's kind of in process, so I'm not really sure I want it to be, like, a goal. 90 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.289
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Then we could have it removed. Okay. 91 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.079
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. So, just…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Did you have acomment? Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. I'd also like to take off the iHeart Sebastopol, since we have the125thcelebration. 93 00:14:55.800 --> 00:15:07.069
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And that's a process that's moving, so… Okay, so we're gonna… we're gonna go start, like, on goal one, and then we… as we go through it, we can just, like, mark them off and takethem off. But, 94 00:15:07.070 --> 00:15:20.810
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: just for the sake of everyone being on the same page, we're… we just did the introduction of the item, and then we're taking additional input from Council Members. Councilmember Hinton, if you have anything, and then, and then… 95 00:15:20.820 --> 00:15:25.020
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Then we're gonna, go out to public comments, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: How about if I go through this goal one, and if we want to add or subtract, does that work for you, Mary? And then, to add additional goals, and then go out to public comment? Yeah, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I'm just gonna start with goal number one, community vitality. We have council member priorities, we have public input, all of this. I know I have a couple that I would like to add to this, so I… I can… I'm just… 98 00:15:54.390 --> 00:16:02.169
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Ask everyone else here if you have anything to add first. Go ahead. Oh, nothing to add, just to remove the iHeart. Just to remove the iHeart. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: All right, and then I would like to add, and the one thing is, is some of these things, I… for me personally, looking at, we have short-term goals and long-term goals, and identifying what is long-term, I think that's a little ambiguous, so I don't know
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So these goals are one year, so if they're longterm, what I would recommend is recreating a separate list.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. And then we could come back and review those, but if it's going to be a, you know, longer than a one-year process, then we should have a separate document that… Well, I'll just put them out there, and then we can decide.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: they look pretty dated, so that was one thing that I was thinking it would be nice if that… and then also, the benches around town, improving, you know, whatever it is that we could do to, improve some. Some are okay, but there are some that are looking pretty, beat up. So those are the two things I wanted to add to that. 105
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: for our community vitality. So, did anyone else have any other additions to this… any of this list here? 106
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sure, go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: police and heart programs that we're already doing. We don't need to put these into goals, right?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, so we have, the… I have to go back and find the one goal, but there is a goal in here where it talks about WCCS and HART and all that, so we don't need to re-add to that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright, so if no one has anything for public safety…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We will go on from there. Sorry for the interruption, everyone. I forgot my charger.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Now, goal number 3, infrastructure. Does anyone have anything they would like to add to that?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Councilmember Zone. Thank you. So… I'm…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Attachment 2, this is what I'm looking at, because I know what I submitted.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And for those trying to follow along, Attachment 2 is City Council priority submissions. So… under… that goal. 121
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Now Goal 3.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: then do I need to… Mary, do I need to restate what is already typed here?No. No, so those have been included into the table. This… what the mayor is asking for right now is, if any council member was not able to submit their written topics, now is the opportunity, if they see something missing, or if you want to change, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I believe it was the cost allocation plan is… is in here. It's there, okay. Just wanted to make sure, thank you. Where is it at onthere, just for… 126
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: 30's sake.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Let me find it, let me… What I'm following along with is Attachment 2, which is entitled City Council Priority Submissions, because I just wanted to make sure that whatever I typed in did get occluded, and I can follow along on that page. So that's where I'm at. Yeah, I just don't see it on here, that's why I'm asking. I think your screen's up.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Like, it's right there. No, I… it'shere, but this is the form that we're going through. It is on long-termfinancialsustainability. 129
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Goal 5, Item 3. Oh, it's Goal 5, not goal 3, okay. All right, so… Right, so we put it where, even though the council… even though it was infrastructure.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we… we did try to put it… it does relate to the whole long-term financial, you know, financial stability fornot just the enterprise fund, but it also impacts general fund as well, so we put it under the long-term financial stability, or sustainability, sorry.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We can move it if the Council likes to, but it is in here for consideration.Okay, I just want tomake sure. Councilmember Hinton? 132
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm sorry I was late tonight, but for process purposes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we have the 5votes for these? Yes, we decided, yeah, we're gonna do it like last year. We, all agreed that we would do it the unanimous vote, so everything that moves forward would be 5 votes, and then, we'll keep track of how many people are voting, and if
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: by some chance we don't have too… enough goals, then we'll go back to the fours and see if we want to add any of them. Okay, so right now, these are just getting added to the list that we're going to vote on. We're just quickly going through this, so if anyone's changed their mind, come up with something since we submitted, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Got it. Go ahead, Vice Mayor. Under, Goal 3 infrastructure, I would like to ask that the feasibility study for the Apple Blossom Trail 137
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And the Gravenstein Trail development are separate… two separate boats.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Anything… oh, go ahead. This is also kind of a question. If we're interested in doing whole road improvements, is this something that I add as a goal? Like, you know, we're doing these patchworks, road improvements, and under infrastructure. Do I say as a goal, hey, I would like to do 143
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: A broader stretch of goals, or is that, a matter of, like, of course we are?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, road improvements would be the goal and the priorities, and the staff would be bringing back?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: if there's an individual request, you can bring that forward as… when the… when the agenda item comes forward for, you know, let's just say digouts, or, like, we have an agenda item on the next meeting regarding Palm Avenue and Strout. So that would be the… where the… that is. It wouldn't be a goal here to expand those.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: You said it would or it wouldn't? I would not put it as a task, because we do have road maintenance, and we have road repairs and things like that, sowe don't want to get too specific.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And a council member always has the opportunity to add an agenda item, too, if it's not on this goal, so… Can't we just have an overarching goal, though, that we want to do better and domore? I mean, wouldn't that be…We do. So we have roads, potholes, street resurfacing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's one of the tasks for under infrastructure.

Okay, alright.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so number 4, high performance organization.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Doesn't look like it. Okay. Number 6, economic development.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Let's see, any… I was looking for theone that you said you want, weren't sure if, CouncilmemberCarter, do you know the West Coast? Was it under… I feel like it was under Vitality, it was.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Did you… It's on the very first goal, and I already marked it out. Okay, I'm sorry, I missed that. So, number 6, does anyone have any additions,changes?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Thank you, Mayor. So this is public comment. It is a two-minute public comment time period. If you would like to make a public comment, we do chambers first, and then go out to Zoom. Ifthere's anyone in chambers that would like to make a public comment on the items presented right now, and then again, as the Mayor stated, we will have a separate public comment at the end. 162
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Seeing none in chambers, I'll go out to Zoom. If there's anyone on Zoom that would like to make a public comment, to please raise your hand virtually.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright, so we're gonna, go and discuss the goals submitted by thecommunity and the council, and we're… Jill, yeah, can theycome? I'm sorry, I'd like to make a comment. Yeah, go ahead. There was a comment that was submitted, in the survey, and I just wanted to call it out and thank you for whoever wrote this. If you're listening, this is what the commenter wrote. I know it's a tough job. 167
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So many activities, organizations, programs that we would all like to support, but we simply can't.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We are a small city with limited funds, and tough decisions have to be made, and you volunteered for this job. Make the hard calls, and the citizens will support you.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just love that comment, so I wanted to say thank you to whoever wrote that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I want to comment on the Apple Blossom Trail, particularly, but, some history there, that…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The group put this project together was called the Sebastopool, Trail Makers.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: They worked hard and long on it, and put together a trail. They finally got it to the city council.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And that city council That meeting took place And… 20… 10.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the…at that meeting, the first meeting where we got… we got that to the Council, the…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: There was… Full of people. 184
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Even down the stairs were people waiting and trying to hear and wanted to speak to that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But, anyway… The council at that time, Said, hey. 186
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Real nice presentation, and we're gonna look at it and see what we can do, kind of thing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'd lost… kind of lost my place, that nothing got done by the Council for 6 years.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: 10 meetings, it went over and over again, and… the…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It is such a good project, and it means so much that to the community, that I hope
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It will be really appreciated by the whole community, and particularly
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So again, we'll bring it back to the Council as we go through the goals.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This keeps shutting off. Okay. 198
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through, goal number one, and I'm just gonna read them.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we're gonna vote on them. Can we just do the thumbs up? We can, I just… actually, I would prefer to have yes,since we have members of the public on video, but
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just wanted to clarify, for item number one, the iHeart, are you taking out the entire thing as we're going to put it, or bring it forward with the 125th birthday centennial, or just the iHeart portion of it? 201
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: keep the history walk, but removing the iHeart, because we were going a different direction. Okay, thank you. 202
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Can… so, for me personally, I just want to understand what…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: a downtown history… I mean, we already have the Sebastopol Walk, so what doesthat mean? Like… So I described this in… I figured it could be one to three years, and we would work with the, West County, Museum. 204
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And, it would be plaques or some way of designating a point of history throughout the downtown.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: this also sort of goes along with supporting the cultural history of the town.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I was envisioning, plaques, and so, recognizingthe different
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It would be in the council submittals, but I don't have it in front of me right now. Your Chinatowns, the, the building where the Sebastopol standoff was, becausethat's… these are littlebits of history of Sebastopol,I think are unique and interesting, so, yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: like, I'm wondering if we could put brackets around it, like… 4 or 5?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Pax, or what are you thinking?Oh, I was thinking, you know, 1-3 year project, a dozen.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I'm sure the West County history people, they probablycould pullup a dozen.Youknow,wehavethePomopeoplehereattheLaguna, and
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, so… One thing that, just in… with this very beginning one is that I just wondered… in the past, when we… last year when we did this, we also talked about costs and all of that, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not quite clear on how we all want to handle that, and I don't recall exactly what we did last year, but… We didn't have the costs last year. We had to bring those back. So you just brought them back. The Council gave us what the… what their priorities were, and then we did bring the… bring back those costs to the budget. Okay, I'm just… No, that's okay. It's been a year. Okay. 214
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So this idea also could go along with the 125th celebration.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That it is part of our history. 216
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,all right. So, to be efficient here with this, so we're changing that to the Downtown History Walk with the plaques, and so then, I guess what Mary wants us to do is do all yeses or nos,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: through our microphone so everyone can hear, and that's what you'd like? That is correct. So, if you support or do not support? 218
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, alright, so I'll just ask that then. So, with number one, I'll just godown. Do you want to do it? Yes, Councilmember Carter? 219
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because we're going to come back through them as well, so if you want to say… We're just leaving it on the list right now, and then… Yes, and then we're gonna… we're seeing the project. If you say yes, you would be endorsing the task.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we would figure out how much budget it is, and then bring that back to see if the council would still want to… This is the history plaque? Thisisthehistoryplaques.I'msayingno.Okay. 222
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can I ask… Oh, I'm sorry, did… I thought… did Councilmember Hinton… did you say yes or no? No. You said no. Okay. Can Iask for clarification on, Councilmember Zolman's vote?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So we can… so later on, there is a task for the 125th Centennial, and we can add it at that time, and then we could take a vote on that, and that item will come back anyway as an agenda item. That's a council goal already, and we have the subcommittee, so we could bring it forward as part… as part of that. Is that whatyouintended? Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So can we go… so number 2 is removed, so let's go to number 3, Volunteer Program with Coordinator. Mary. 230
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I believe that's Councilmember, or vice Mayor Maurer?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I didn't really substantiate this a lot, because my thought is that we don't really have a planning department right now, and so I didn't think it was exactly the right time to do it, so it wasn't one of my main goals, but I had a little addendum, so this goal was an addendum.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't really think that without a planning director, without a planning department, I don't think it's the right time. Although I did see that staff had mentioned it as well, looking at maybe in relationship, the police department, so… 233
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I guess I actually don't really recommend it at this time if we don't have the planning department. I have a question. 234
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Could we have a volunteer who coordinates the volunteers?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just saying, nonprofits do it allthe time. You… you could. You could have a volunteer that wants to do a volunteer program. Yeah, champion volunteer. That would be fine, yeah.Because we… I do thatat our nonprofit.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, someone who's a volunteer, you know, super volunteer in the community, and
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Ifwe're going to get acoordinator, staff would have to sort of interface with the public to figure out who's going to coordinate, and then that volunteer coordinator would need to coordinate with the council in terms of what are the projects that they're going to coordinate on.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: that was my… that was my question. So, it would… it would… you know, if there was no staff time involved, Iwould say it's great, but we've hadvolunteer coordinators inthe past, and it was a lot more staff. I mean, 247
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Just wanted to put that…thatwas why I asked the question. If it was avolunteer to come and do it, I mean, we canminimally… Be specific. 249
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so, like, yeah, so the… we had a volunteer that would do the Laguna Parks, and that actually fell back to staff. When we do, like, volunteer cleanup days and stuff like that, it fellback to staff. 250
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So it is more work. 251
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Councillor Amazon. I would like someone to reach out to a nonprofit that comes to the monthly nonprofit collaborative meetings and see where that idea lands.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not interested in having staff involved with this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.Because I just don't think we have the staff support right now. We have so many other things. I mean, I'd love to see it happen, I just think there's too many other things.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Maybe next year. Okay. Okay. So that goal, or that, task has been removed. Okay. Number 4, Charles Schultz Peanut Snoopy Public Art Sculpture.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Again, this is Vice Mayor Maurer. So, yeah, this was also part of my addendum. I think that this was already on the Public Arts Committee work plan. I don't know if they're moving it forward.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I wasn't sure if it was on the Public Arts Committee work plan or not. I've not seen theirfinalized work plan. I know that they were still working through it, so I don't know if this is on their work plan or not yet. I'd be willing to coordinate with the Schultz people over in Santa Rosa to see what we can come up with in terms of art.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I think Charles Schultz, like, grew up here, or whatever, but what my feedback would be, I want tomake sure that it's really different than the sculptures that are in City of Santa Rosa, because those definitelybelong to kind of the look is City of Santa Rosa, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, and the airport has it, too. I don't know if you've seen it. Yeah, yeah, no, they… yeah, they're that same look, and to me, that is from… 264
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: for those of us that have been around when that was an art project in the City of Santa Rosa, those were created as a special art project for that city specifically, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Anyway, I'd be willing to support this, but with a completely different look, unique to Sebastopol. Me as well. I think it would be nice to have some history. In fact, my neighbor, up until last year, owned one of their homes here. 266
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's possible. I'd support this, but I'm kind of wondering if it's already in the arms of the art committee, and maybe they just do it? Yeah. 267
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'd be willing to help… help this along. 268
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, along with putting it under the Art Committee's preview. Thank you.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Same with Councilmember Hinton. I'm only voting yes ifthis falls under the Arts Commission and the staff designated for that. I don't wantstaffinvolvedbeyond that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? Yes. Okay, that one has unanimous vote. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Under the public input, number 5, preserve local character, support small businesses, avoid chain stores. We had 42 responses. Mary, how do you want to handle any of those? Before wego to that one, though,can we go back to youredition of welcomesignsand benches? Yeah,becauseIputthatdown further.Yes, sorry. That's okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I just, as I said earlier, I just think that, our welcome signs could stand a bit of sprucing up, so my thought was just, to put that out there. I don't know, you know, I don't know if
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't know the cost, so I don't know if it should be long-term or short-term, but I think that it would… we could stand to have a little bit of sprucing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, and then, do you want me to do the benches separate, so that you can get yeses and nos?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so let's go back to the signs. So I just want to make sure I'm clear on the signs. Is it to refurbish the current Welcome to the City signs? Is it specific to that? Is that what… Not just refurbish, like, what can we… 284
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: referring to? The onethat's there, we have… I mean, we have them inall these different places, so… Right, but it's the welcome. I just want to make sure we're clear, like, we're not doing a new sign program or anything like that.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, as you're coming in on each location, there's a Welcome to the City sign? You're asking if we just want to paint it? Isthat what you mean? No, I'm asking if those are the four signs. Oh, oh, yes, yes, yes, sorry. I thought you meant, like, what do I want to do with it? I'm like… No, I just want to make surewe're specificas to what we're asking.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, there's other signs in front of Community Church and on 116 coming in that say.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the county… I forgot the… the program that it came through. It was a… it was a safety program that we did from the… the police department did those signs, so it was… it was through them. But those are completely… Those are different than, I believe, the signs… I was talking about those welcome signs,you know the onesthat are, like… That include the nuclear free zone? 291
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so I just want to make sure… I don't want to vote on this. I'm going to say something…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That I don't want to vote on, I'm just gonna throw it out there. I do also think we need to look at the signs throughout the town, as far as directions go.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But we're not voting on that, I'm just saying that.

Right, right, and I know that's been a topic in the past, so for the welcome sign… go ahead, Vice Mayor, it looked like you were trying to… Yeah, I just don't see the need to update the welcome signs, because I think there's going to be kind of a substantial cost with that. 296
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But I do see the evidence for the need for the benches.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I just… We're gonna do those separately. I just think that the welcome signs look like they're from the 70s, and it just would be nice to have something a little more spruced up.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: In my opinion.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.You know, it's the first thing people see when they come here, so that's why I was just thinking if we're… if we're looking at downtown vitality, that it would be nice if people…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Saw some… I saw something. I kind of like the science the way they are, so… just… that's just me.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? No, I like the 70s vibe. 307
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, that was 3, so the next one would be the benches? Thebenches,yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I think this has come up before, just having… some of the benches are just getting pretty… they're… they're pretty ratty and splintery and everything else, so I just thought there's a lot ofdifferent ways you cango with this. I mean, there's different art organizations out therethat do benches, so… 310
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just thought it would be nice if we could at least start, sort of like the trash can… like all the trash cans downtown. Maybe we start, you know, staff can identifywhat it costs, and thenfigure out Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: What, you know, what's feasible, and bring it back to us, and maybe it's a… staggered.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Project.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That'swhat I wasthinking. I will say that staff has also been working with the Chamber of Commerce and Main Street to submit a grant through the Main Street program, T-Mobile grant, for benches. We don't have designs yet, but that'll be something that will be coming back. Okay. That is a $10,000 grant if we get it, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Perfect.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, is there support to review the benches? This would be Councilmember Carter?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, I think we need them in the grant. I think it's more than $10,000, thanks.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I support, because I… relying on grants is like throwing, you know, dust in the wind, so I really want us to not count. 321
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes, because I think some of thoseventuresare,frankly,dangerous.They'rein such bad shape,so…MayorMcLewis? 322
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes. Okay, that would be 4 to 1. I'll change my vote.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,so that would be… Is that okay? Can we do that? Yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Thank you all.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Now, Mary, I wanted to understand, since we have the public input this year, that… from the surveys, how… how do you… do you want us to go through that line by line, just like we're doing with these goals that we… Yes. Okay. Yes, no, definitely.Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright, so number… number… whatever it is on the thing, it's 5. Preserve local character, support small businesses, and avoid chain stores.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I probably would recommend for this, even though thesewere specific, is to preserve the local character and support small businesses. I think that incorporates some of the other comments that have been made, and then by doing that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, we could look at, you know, we're working with the Downtown Association as a task, you know, for… 330
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we're looking at coming back with facade improvements and things like that, so this is how I see preserving the local character and supporting the small businesses.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, does anyone have any other ques… I'm sorry, Vice Mayor.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We do have the formula business ordinance that addresses the chain stores. We do have an economic gardening that's coming later under a differentheading.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And so I don't really see a project with this. 335
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I mean, I could say, yeah, I wanna, you know, Pledge to preserve local character.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But that would be more of a… 337
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, kind of an ideology thing. I don't… I don't see a project here. And I would agree, and I think that the themes are built into a lot of the tasks and priorities otherwise.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But we just wanted to show you what this was, and if there was something specificthat theCouncil wanted to pick up from this. But I would agree, supporting the small businesses is in the economic development. You know, you do have the formula businesses. We are preserving our local character, you know, by, 339
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: like I said, working with the streamlining of our ordinances and things like that, so… but we wanted to make sure you were aware of what the…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Hinton? We also supported the Chamber with the MainStreet sponsorship, right? Sothat should be listed when we talk about how we're supporting small business in downtown.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sowecould go ahead and cross this one off for now. If the Council wants to come back to look at it, we can do that, if you don't feel the rest of the goals support this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can we… can we just vote yes for the idea? Or… or does that obligate you to a task? Well, then we'd have to… we would bring tasks back. So, we do have tasks for the business, economic development, the Main Street program for the…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: niches and things like that. More of a philosophical discussion.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, moving on to number 6,traffic, parking, and street configurationconcerns. Anyone have any comments on that? Go ahead, Vice Mayor. Well, this one also is… I mean, we already have a roads program that we've been working on, and will continue to work with, because we've already agreed 347
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to use Measure, U funds for this. 348
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And Ialso proposed atrafficad hoc committee so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Those are projects that have been proposed, as opposed to this sort of bigger
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: category. I just don't know what to do with that. I think in looking at some of the, just looking at some of the actual, feedback, like, people were asking for,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Let's see, safety at crosswalks… 352
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then enforcement is speeding, that type of stuff, so I don't know if,you know, if any ofthat falls under that, but that could be part ofthe discussion. Go ahead, Councilmember Hinton.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It was presented to us by the consultant when we talked about the one-way versus two-way streets, that there's a state law that requires red curbing at certain intersections that
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: was kind of addressed in that, but since that's so far out, my question is, what are we doing about that state law and red curbing so we're in compliance? Which really goes to this
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Goal, which includes parking, because we're going to lose parking when we red curb per state law.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Someslots. So, is that on our list this year? 357
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I… I just… Well, do we have the police chief? We don't, but Public Works would be able to address that. And it also goes to safety, because when you're pulling out the red… the red curb, you can't… 358
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: can't see, and that's why the red… That's why the state law has come in. And I just wanted to also go on to this as well, is that this could also fall under the Sustainable Transportation Grant and the PDA, the Priority Development Area, which is what we are currently doing, because that addresses 359
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: You know, some… the downtown portion of it. 360
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolong? To follow up with Councilmember Hinton, to our city attorney, so state law has been mentioned, and since you're our city attorney,so what risk are we?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Where are we with risks if we don't have anything identifiable to move towards whatever the state law requirement is onthat issue? 362
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I have to do a little bit of research on timeline for that, and I can get back to you within this meeting.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I do believe our Public Works Director, though, has information as far as the street of Kirkland that we're going to be… We're in compliance with the red curb law. Public Works staff painted the curbs at the end of last year. 364
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I remember them doing it by the post office, because it changed the whole parking options there.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Well, so with this, then, I mean, I was just looking under here, and where it was kind of condensed and what people were asking for.

Those are the things that people were asking for when it came to traffic,so itsounds like… doesanyonehaveanythingspecific? Otherwise,wecan… 366
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. Actually… when I was getting emails when I was mayor about, like, the slowdown signs.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I think, Mary, I might have sent you some of those, too. So, while we're waiting for the Sustainable Transportation Grant and all this magical money that's supposed to come from that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Could we not explore, like. 369
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: periodically putting up those slow-down flashing things, whatever. I can't remember the terminology that you put, but those signs that we could put up
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Periodically. Kind of like the slowdowns of basketball cat that we used to put out. Yeah. Are you talking about that, or the one that's, like,on Bodega? Like,byBurbank,thatflashes?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: withthe speed? It was more like what I got some email from a concerned person whose pet was injured. I emailed Mary, and you said maybe you were going to look into… We had talked to the police department putting the slowdown cat, and because of the location, it was recommended not to put it on the main street part in that area, but yes, we have the slowdown
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Correct me if I'm wrong, we still have the slowdown Sebastopol cat, or we have the radar signs that say slow down, so we can put the radar trailer out more often and more frequently.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm kind of interested to figure out the pricing, to periodically put that up. As a reminder, this is not the Indy 500 freeway, so… 374
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Related to that, though, Ithink there's different lightflashing,and Ifind it,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And we never used it before, but I recently saw it within the last few months when I was going down Petaluma Avenue. I frequently go into work at 5.30 in the morning, and it does really give you, like, a, is there an accident?And Agenda Item Number 1
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that seems a little, like, not the right message we want to… so I want to talk about the, maybe,thelightflashing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because there is a difference, and I don't know if we have a policy, or the police department's just been deciding which lights to use, and I… I think that…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: sends the wrong message. It sends a… this is emergency vehicles.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And it's not. We do not have a policy, but I also wasnotawareof that.So,Lieutenant,can youaddressthat? 382
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above the speed limit that it's set to, and so that is, I think, what you're referring to, so that's a concern. You're saying it's… looks like it's
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: more than it is, an emergency rather than it is. I don't know if that's a setting on the trailer that can be adjusted, we can look into that and see.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Does it only flash that when you're going overthe speed limit, or is it always… No, it's only… but when you exceed the speed that it's set to, like, we put it on Morris Street, let's say, it would be set to 25 miles an hour. If you exceed that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: window in there, I've never actually set it up, but when yougoabovethatspeed,that'swhen thered and bluelightsflash atyou,and ithas the… your speed
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It'll tell you how fast you're going. Yeah. I'm sorry.

No, go ahead, and then… So one… so onemileover flashes that, though, and I… I… Ithink it's… it's not what the previous flashers we've ever had in town do. 389
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I don't know if we could talk about it tonight, but I prefer it be set at Flasher, but, like, slow down, slow down, but not… it makes it look like it's an emergency vehicle, and when you're kind of coming over the hill, one… 390
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, all of a sudden, 26 is like, oh no, is what's happening up ahead. It's pretty bright. Yeah, we can look into it and see if there's a… if there's a tolerance, like, it doesn't flash until you're 5 over, or something like that. Or a different color, that's what I'm suggesting. A different color, not an emergency vehicle color. I think it sends the wrong message.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter? So I support NISA on that, but I also kind of want to just generally support the, the item, even though we have two others that seem to also coordinate with it.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, and I just wanted to add to this. So, a couple years ago on my street, we had this big initiative. We needed to slow people down on Feller's Lane, because everyone cuts through and drivesfast on there. It's wide, and… Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: smooth. And the police officer that came out and spent a couple hours with us talking about options was one of those with the flashing light, like, in front of Burbank.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But they told us we all had to pony up the money for it, that the city doesn't pay for that kind of thing, so I don't know. I'm just putting that out there, that that… I don't recall the cost of it at that time, but… 395
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we all were gonna have to draw straws to see whose house it sat in front of, or, like, whose yard it was in, so we all declined that option. But I know that that is also an option.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, just for people, if they're wondering in the public, I mean, we spent a great deal of time on that, one of my neighbors. 397
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Kind of take a strawvote about allocating, staff resources enough to bring back what are our options as far as the different slowdown 399
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: things that we have going on in the city, just to get an idea, because I don't know. People email, it's just like, what areyou doing about it? I don't even know what to say about it anymore. So, I would recommend, honestly, moving this out of community vitality, putting it into public safety, and then we would have the direction to staff to review the options.Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. So, so moving this to what I just stated, to the public safety, putting into that, is there support, Councilmember Carter? Yes. 401
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah,so this would be to move traffic, parking, and street configuration concerns to public safety, with the direction to review the options for theradar signs for slowing down traffic.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.Mayor McLewis? Yes. 406
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This item is unanimous. I think we're good. Thank you so much.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,so let's move on. Just in the interest of time, we're at an hour, and we've only made it to number 7.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… So this one is similar. This is infrastructure repairs and cleaning roads and sidewalks. This is, again, could either be moved to the road section for infrastructure or, public safety as far as sidewalk Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, could be pedestrian, you know, enforcement of people using the sidewalks. So there's… Well, couldn't sidewalks also just be about cleaning sidewalks and making, you know, taking care of the general repair of them for vitality of downtown? Is that whythatended up there? 410
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: that… my understanding, reading on some of the comments, it was more about safety, but we could change it to, you know, we could include it as far as downtown cleanliness to include cleaning of sidewalks. That's what I… that's what I assumed why it was in there, but… I mean, but that's just part of public works, I believe, right? Imean,they're already doing…should be doing that. 411
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Correct. So I would recommend, since infrastructure repairs within our infrastructure already, one of the tasks is to just remove this and include, you know, cleaning of sidewalks as part of our new normal routine. Yeah, that would be the,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: what did you call it earlier? The day-to-day… The day-to-day values that we have incorporated into our operations. Yeah, the day-to-day values, so… okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. Just the concern for our time and process, like, if we're getting to a lot that already have a lot of other stuff going on, it seems like we're getting into redundancy pretty hard, and I'm just wondering if we can just… 414
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: avoid… avoid that, and just keep going with, like, more specific ones, because these seem like just normal tasks. Well,I'm trying torun through them, yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright, so,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Downtown cleanliness, we already… downtown cleanliness, safety, and homelessness, that was something that came up from the public.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. And this is where the HART program in WCCS is, is noted.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, okay. And increasing police patrols. There's quite a few different things in here to increase the downtown cleanliness and safety, so it would be conducting, you know, police patrol… police patrols downtown, the WCCS and HART personnel, and then there's a discussionabout doing flower baskets for the downtown
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: working with the Chamber on that, continue the installation of the garbage, taking out the old and the new garbage cans. That is what this goal would incorporate.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That'sa whole mouthful. Let's see, so we need to parse this out and be efficient at the sametime. So, let's see. So, garbage cans is one, is that right?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It would be garbage cans, working with the Chamberon beautifyingthedowntown withflowerbaskets,conducting,policepatrols downtown, and then utilization of the WCCS and HART personnel. 422
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That is a task, and so all decisions will be coming back to the City Council. We're not making any approvals tonight, this is just direction to staff to bring back items, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is what's been in the past. We could just put in there to utilize personnel for homeless, if you wanted to remove the two that are currently, doing the work. Would that be under public input, where it says under public safety, number 3 is under homelessness?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. We could move it to homelessness. 426
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Colin, go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So these are items that are already going. Right.

So, is the ask that we want tocontinuethis forthe next year? Isthat the ask? 428
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If so, I'm good. That's fine. All that can keep going. The ask will come back for approval, but is the Council supportive of continuing programs for homeless?Okay, yes. Okay. Yes. Councilmember Carter? 429
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, all that.CouncilmemberHinton? Yes. 430
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? Yes. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? Yes. Okay, so that's a 5-0.Okay,and now garbagecans? That was a part of it. Oh, oh, we did… that was… you were blanketing it, I see. Yes, that would all fall under the downtown cleanliness and… Okay, alright. 431
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: All right. So the next one is public spaces, parks, art, and community events.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We did incorporate into here as one of the tasks the creation of the Centennial, 125th birthday.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This item will be coming back, so I would recommend keeping this as a goal under community, or not a goal, but a task under community
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the strategic and priorities, because we will be bringing back information on the… the centennial for next year. 435
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Do you want us to… Councilmember Carter? Councilmember Hinton?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, but can Iconfirm, are the bronze plaque idea moving into this? And with the bronze plaque idea. Yes, thank you for reminding me. Yep. Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? Yes. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes.MayorMcLewis? Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, sorry, let me… Get to the next one. 440
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Pomo in Public Arts. 441
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So this is where we would request that it be continued over. We do have the land acknowledgement that we've already done, and the Public Arts will be working on a potential mayoral project. There is $3,000 allocated in this year, and we are recommending that that's going forward, to the new budget when that comes back as well.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: You know, I just wanted to bring up, I did a fair amount of work in my daily acts year with the tribes. Do we know if we could get this funded by one of the local tribes?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just… it's $3,000, and I think they probably… 445
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: have the money, if we were to ask them, so I just wanted to throw that out there.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm in favor of it. 447
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.Councilmember Carter? Yes. CouncilmemberHinton? Yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? Yes. 449
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That is a 5-0.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is the festive activities and holiday events. So last year, we did do a lot of activities for Halloween and Christmas decorations, things like that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We would like to continue that, and one of the things that we would be working with on this year is Public Works is working on looking at how much it would cost to install electricity in the lights downtown, rather than having solar. And can I comment onthat?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This has been an ongoing issue for years. When I was back at the Chamber back in 2018, 2017, whatever.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: this was an issue then, and it's just continued to be an issue. And I know we tried solar, and they were… the… this past winter, we had solar, and then they weren't working, and then because it was so dark some days. 455
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: things weren't lighting up, and business… some businesses were upset because they… some had lights, some did not, and it was all surrounding the lack of electricity, so I wholeheartedly support exploring this, just because of the last 8 years of listening to all of the challenges with that. I remember Dante would get on me all the time, you know we don't have power! So I just… I just wanted to say that, and just listening to the businesses this past winter.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And the challenges with that, it meant a lot to them. I was surprised how upset people were over this, but… so I'm supportive of it, just because of that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm staring at you, but… Just to follow up, so that would be to have Public Works explore the electricity. 459
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: outside electrical outlets, so any store could just plug in so that their whole outside would be lit. So, so what it would be is… so in our, our lights downtown, not PG&E, but our city lights, is to look to putting electrical up in the top of those lights, so it's not for, theoretically, for businesses, it's for us to do the trees.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to have them lit, because we tried to decorate the trees last time in solar, and it just did not work very well. And then now we could also, if we had that, put up Halloween… or holiday decorations on the poles now as well. 461
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Any further questions? 462
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter? Yes. 463
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, I'm sorry.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? Yes. 465
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? Yes. That is a 5-0.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This next one was a request from the Public Arts Committee. They would like to return to monthly meetings. Right now they are every other month, I believe.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And they don't feel like that is working with them to try to get some of the projects done. Sculptor Jam, called for the mural for the Poma art. 468
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Did… didn't we change that due to budget, or was it… We did, right? Wechanged it due to budget.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, we were using the planning director at that time. We do have new planning staff, sothe planning techpersoncould theoretically do it. It's during the day, would not be overtime or anything like that. We could limit it to… 470
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, their second meeting would basically be, like, their work plan. So, the first meeting would be public art andall that,the second one would be the work plan, so… and it would be, in my understanding, based on my conversation with them, it would be limited staff.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Similar to Climate Action Committee. Can I ask how long thesemeetings are? Usually hour, hour anda half. They're… they're explicit, they don't go…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Maybe 2 hours at the most, but they don't go beyond that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just thinking from a staff perspective, doesn't it make more sense to lengthen the meetings so they can get more work done than to add new meetings, just for…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It just…
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SebastopolCommunityCulturalCenter:makesensefromorganizing? Dependingon what time their meetings are scheduled, it could theoretically run into overtime for… if they go after hours.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: What do you mean? You mean because of the time it's scheduled? I'm with the… I'm thinking the same thing. I don't understand why we need to do… increase the frequency when…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If we added a half hour… 478
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. I would like to increase their hours and let it be flexible. They can either add to this or have another one, because sometimes you have things that you need to go back with, and two months is, like, forever, and you've forgotten, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Or at least that's me, because I forget things. But, like, next month, you know…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I feel like that's reasonable, but if we cap the hours, it's kind of… kind of nice, but I would be for a limited increase. 481
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm sorry. Sorry, go ahead. I would actually like to see the work plan. Maybe I spaced out. I don't think I've ever seen a work plan. I don't think I've ever seen a goal. It's like, so I'm a no for all of this until they decide to agendize something to really let us know what is their plan, what are they doing, and by when. 482
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I will tell you that, 483
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This isthe first yearthey've done it. I instituted it for all the planning… the Planning Commission already does theirs, but we're doing one for design review, climate action, and the Public Arts Committee. 484
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, they will be coming to the City Council for review of those work plans. They're working onthat right now, so this is the first year they've ever… any of these committees, other than Planning Commission has done a work plan.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Vice Mayor. Yeah, I'd like to support their request. They used to meet here at the Youth Annex, and they've moved to City Hall now, so I know that has saved some costs there. But they know best what they need in terms of the frequency of their meetings, and so I would… Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: like to support their request. And then, if they need to cancel a meeting, they can just cancel it. You know, it doesn't mean they have to meet every month if it's not necessary. But it seems to me that they… I think they were meeting
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: four times a year? I believe it used to be quarterly… quarterly. And that's just… to me, that's just not enough. So, I would support their request.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, we could bring this back when they have their work plans done. Because I'm a no-two until we have a better idea, and in the interest of time, I'm just trying to figure out how to expedite this more, because if we know we have one no vote, it's not unanimous, so I'm just thinking we need to start moving 489
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: quicker through this, otherwise we're going to be here till midnight. I just want to do a quickvote. CouncilmemberCarter? 490
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No. Councilmember Hinton?No. Councilmember Zolman? No. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: MayorMcLewis? No. No. And then I did want to show you on this page, there are items that we took out of the, the goals from last year, and they are part of our day-to-day values that we're doing, so the supporting of the community event with city sponsorships. You see those coming forward with the City Council. We are also bringing a policy back on that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Continual cleanup of graffiti,and thenthe cleaning of the sidewalks, and then we do have the land acknowledgement on all city agendas. So, some of those goals from last year are the tasks we pulled out as those are now day-to-day.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Second now is the public safety. This is where, one of the items cameup is the traffic, or the Joe Bajota Trail CorridorSafety, and this is from Councilmember Carter.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I believe?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I guess this is my opportunity to pitch it, but, Dota Corridor trail, safety needs to be a lot better, because my kids use it, and it still feels unsafe. It's part of us, and I think it has something to do with 496
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't want to, you know, speculate too much, but I think it's incredibly important for active transportation near Sebastopol. 497
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Councilor Hinton. How… how much of the trail is ours versus the county?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can… I think… I would actually only be talking about the city's version.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'd sayusually the police officers know. 500
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we could look to maintain more, but the actual area right around the trail where you're looking at line of sight.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's not what was explained to me before in the past, is that… I just want to clarify, just because I was told that the vegetation on the one side that's closest to the city, at least in a part of that area, is ours, because… So I just want to make sure, because I've heard different…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, as far as the vegetation and the maintenance of it, that's not really my purview, but I know the area that's within the city limits that we enforce
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: is… goes… once you hit the main trail from the one that goes behind the hotel there, it goes down to the… the longest bridge, we call it the second bridge, the long wooden bridge. So as far as the county right-of-way and the vegetation, that might… that's a different issue,probably, from your perspective. 504
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I'll just say what was explained to me by, 505
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: by Dante and a variety of other folks was that the space that's on the side where the, trucking com… you know, the… where, 506
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, behind the feed store and all of that, that whole area, they said that is all of ours, all the way up to the trail. So you're saying that's not… That's absolutely ours. The area right along the trail. So, like, as you're looking at line of sight or blackberries that might be against the trails, it's just a corridor along the trail that's the county's. That property is absolutely ours, yes, that's very… Okay, I just wanted to be clear, because that's an area that…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Until maybe the last year, it was really neglected for a long time and has had a lot of…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Furniture, and it's a dumping ground. 509
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It is on one of my priorities to look at maintaining that area, because it's a mosquito.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Got it. So I'm supportive of that. I avoid… I've had… I don't even walk through Dota there, because I don't feel safe. Go ahead. So I believe in the past, volunteers have organized, I think, thanks to Mr. Diedler here, organized volunteers to clean up that area.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I also have an agenda item about the care of the wetlands.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I'm not sure if that's within the wetlands, but maybe the two could be… maybe there could be some kind of a plan created for that. I think… I'm just gonna put my own thing in there. I just… it also requires earth-moving equipment. That… I've seen it back there before when Public Works was there last year. 513
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Literally with them trying to clean out all the vegetation and the furniture.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: is… it feeds to the Laguna, so it is technically part of the Laguna. I'm meeting with some folks from the foundation tomorrow to walk that area along with… look at some other things, and talk about what we could do in terms of maintenance. I know there's some progressive, like, grazing options that we can do, potentially, to keep… just keep them out of thewaterway, but they're very effective at things like blackberries. So…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'll have more information about that shortly, but we are looking into ways that we could maintain that area and be compliant with respecting theLaguna.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And just a piece of information, we had someone that… I had someone email me several months ago. She's actually part of that program with the grazing, and she lives here in downtown Sebastopol. I can always refer her to you, too, as well, because she has volunteered to help figure that out. 518
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, that would be great. I wanted to kind of understand how that logistically would work with the LagunaFoundation, and kind of our obligations around the wetland space, and then kind of look at pricing of what that would look like. I'll just forward the information to you, and you can take it from there, but who else had a comment?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.Are we supportive, CouncilmemberCarter? Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Hinton? Yes. Councilmember Zolman?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, Vice Mayor Maurer, budget dependent, yes. 522
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And Mayor McLewis? Yes. Okay, that is a5-0. The next one is similar to the one that we've already talked about. It is increasing foot patrols downtown, basically to focus on keeping, drugs out of town. You were all supportive on the last one. Oh, I'm sorry.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember… Councilmember Hinton? 524
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, I'm just saying, we're at 2-2, and we got a lot of goals. Are we… we're not gonna make it. I'm just curious if we're… should we be moving faster, or should we be doing… I'm moving as fast as possible. People have comments.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just… we're gonna run out of time. I'm just pacing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Your microphone is on. The foot patrol, I don't know what that means, because… But the foot patrol…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Is… is it solely related to homeless issues, and… 529
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: intoxication, drug use. If so, we already have HART, we also have the West County Community Services. If that's where that's going, then yes, I tooam interestedin having staff time
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sort that out.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because I am the homeless liaison to our county programs, and while the Director of Public Works has said that the HART program will be continued, I still don't know how that meshes up with what we're paying West County Community Services, honestly. I don't know whether they're duplicating efforts, I don't know if one is deferringto the other, but I would like some time and a staff report. 532
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to… flush this all out, because I'm in the middle of it, and I'm still not even clear.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I personally am supportive of more foot patrols, so I'm just gonna say, so that we can move along here.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm sorry, I thought you were just doing thumbs up.

Yeah, I'm just doing thumbs up, I just generally agree. I just wanted to add really quick, too.

So, yes, that comes back as far as the budget, that conversation information for that, for the homelessness. This is also more about… we've had a lot of complaints about thefts, we've hada lot ofcomplaints about graffiti, we've had a lot of things, so we fear… so, one of the options is community policing.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then to have them out in the community, not… not specifically just homelessness, but, you know, walking around the plaza, being out in the community, meeting with the businesses, things like that. Yeah. 536
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. And I'm supportive of that, because our police chief was supposed to come back in April, like, this is April, talking about the Citizens Program and the increase in community policing, and I've not seen anything. So, if increasing the foot patrol is related.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to the Citizens Program, Academy, Community Policing, then I'm a yes. If it's not, I'm a no.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. So, and yes, that item is coming back. Well, it's been… It has been on the agenda. It's been on there, and it just keeps getting pushed. 539
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, for this item specifically, it's increasing the control… I just want to be clear that it's not something that we are doing, it just keeps getting pushed because it's not finished.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, increasing foot patrol, councilmember Carter? Yes.Councilmember Hinton?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not sure about increasing. I'd like to see the plan, so if it comes back, I'll say yes to it coming back. 542
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? 543
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: similar to Councilmember Hinton, I'm interested in seeing a plan to address all of it. I'm not interested in receiving something that's, like, increase my budget, because I want to see more officers walk up and down Main Street. 544
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I'm sorry, go ahead. Go ahead. I just want to ask a quick questionabout generalities and specifics, like, 545
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are we just kind of keeping it general, and you're going to come back with things that address a lot of our specificconcerns? Yes. So, if we're saying yes to the task of increasing foot patrol for not just, you know, homelessness, but community policing, things like that, if the Council's in support of this, we will, as a task, bring back
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: require, you know, requests as far as, you know, like I said, the Community Service Volunteer Program, where we're at with that. 547
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then as part of the budget, we do have two separate items as far as contracts for homelessness services, so… 548
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I wouldn't get too specifics, but I do believe that, keeping this as a priority is good, and then we can bring back recommended actions by the police department when they bring the report back.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, having said that, Councilmember Carter? 550
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Mayor, Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? Yes, and I want to point out that this can merge with number 5 and number, number 3 under the public, input, just…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Correct? Yes, that is correct.And I also just want to remind everyone, these are not being approved tonight. They're just coming back. These are… we will be bringing these back, but these are what your priorities are coming back. So, specific tasks will be coming back, so
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just want to make that clear. 557
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… so yeah, so number 3 and number 5 would be the same, so we just had the… the 5.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Trafficenforcement and speed control, this is what we talked about, where we were going tohave staff come back with, 559
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The radar sign for one, but then also ways of increasing, you know, visibility and traffic enforcement. 560
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Inthecity?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, Councilmember Ricarder? Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I thought… oh, sorry. Oh, no, I just… we need to vote on it again, even though we voted on it earlier? Well, this is also now about, you know, traffic enforcement,visibility of ourofficers on the street. This isn't just specific to theradar sign, but the radar sign is coming back, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes, there's a general idea, and we'll sort it out later. Okay, that's fine, I just, I'm just trying to, like… 564
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Streamline this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,Councilmember Carter? Yes. Councilmember Hinton?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? Sorry, so this is about the trafficthing? I thinkI spaced a minute. Yeah, so we were talking about the radar sign earlier, it's about that, but it's also about more visibility. Okay, yes. Okay. I have an affirmation that we're affirming thecommunityexpressed interest. Yes, and Mayor McLewis?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes. I mean, I'm sorry. 570
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah.Yes. And Council… andVice Mayor Maurer? ViceMayorMaurerand MayorMcLewis,therewego.Okay.Okay.And then,forpublic safety, this was just comments from the public about general satisfaction with the current services, so there is no, this is not a task or anything like that, but we just wanted to… If we can't vote onthat?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No jokes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, this next one is prioritize public safety through programs and initiatives that assist to the Council, preparing for major disasters. 573
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This isfinalizing our Emergency Operations Plan. This is also conductingtrainings forCity Council and City staff, andespecially forthose staff appointed tothe EOC, and this is also relative to item 12 below regarding the county free trainings.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I would recommend keeping this as a… 575
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: A priority, so we can finalize our action plans. 576
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter? Yes.Councilmember Hinton?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.Councilmember Zolman? Yes. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes.MayorMcLewis? Yes.Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is the one that we just discussed, which would be where we're at on the volunteer programs. 579
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So this is similar to the item… 580
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The two items above, so we had 5 on that, so I don't think we need to go back through.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We'll show that as a 5. The next one was exploring, evaluating industry's best practices and public safety delivery models, identifying potential, opportunities to adopt and expand capacities, including focusing on staffing strategies and limiting reliance on overtime. 582
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is a continued… this is basically for recruitment purposes. We have been doing active recruitment. We are, getting almost fully staffed with the policedepartment. We have…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Applicants and backgrounds. So we are focusing on the staffing to be able to reduce that overtime.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Question.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. Question. Since these are all carryover projects that…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just wondering if we could do a block voting on this, like, or somebody could say, well, I don't, you know, I don't want to carry that forward, or canwe just go… Youmean disagree by exception? Yeah. Yeah. 587
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I mean, I would agree to carry over all of these, so I just think in the interest of saving time, rather than going one by one, since they're already goals…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If there's something somebody doesn't want to have happen, maybe we could pull that one out.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I agree. I was thinking the same thing. 590
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes. Okay, so I will go ahead and read the remaining ones that are being carried over. Exploring ways to address the homelessness, pursuing at no additional cost or low-cost solutions to homelessness. 591
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That includes some ordinance that we had talked about before, working with the county on resources, and then the SAFE program. 592
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Updating, finalizing the Emergency Operations Plan, which we just discussed.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm continuing to work with the county on the community emergency response team andthecounty free offerings that they're doing. Getting the infrastructure for the Emergency Operations Center down at the police Agenda Item Number 1
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department. We've done the feasibility study, now we are coming back with the budget for the generator itself.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The Coalition of the Housing and keeping the county, or review… Keeping theCounty Agency, or review of nonprofit,or changing thelead agency, and we do have Councilmember that is on that committee, so these are all continuations, if… are there any issues, wanting to pull any off? 595
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Question onthe SAFE program? I didn't think we werepart…can youdefinethatprogram?Therehasbeen no… 596
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No movement on that moving forward. 597
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So we just continue to review it, but it is extremely expensive to do it. I thought it was millions of dollars. It is. So we continue to review programs, that's one of them, but it's not a recommendation that we move forward with it.

Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I will see no issues, so then I would, believe that we need to go into infrastructure.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So number 3, for everyone who's following along, Goal3?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Do you want me to read them, or do you want to read them? I can go ahead. The first one isthe Apple Blossom Trail. 602
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And this is from Vice Mayor Maurer. 603
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, thank you. So, this trail has a definite plan, and it hit a few roadblocks because there was resistance at the Luther Burbank Farm, there was resistance at the Burbank housing, and
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we have resolved the prop… we have resolved and gotten buy-in from the Laguna Farm folks, sothey agreed. And the way… where we did that is that the path would go around the farm, so there is a… 605
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: access road. So instead of going through the farm, it goes around the farm, and they agreed to this plan.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then, the owners of the cemetery, the owners of the church, they've all both agreed.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: that the trail could go through the property. So, then I was there a couple weeks ago, and I'm looking at… so the… the seniors at the Burbank Housing, they were… a few of them were opposed to this. 608
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But when I looked at… at it, so there's a one-way road, so it comes in, it's a two-way road, and where the one-way Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: starts. You could put a small bike path right there, and it only goes for, like.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: 30 feet or something, and then that would take you right to the parking lot, which would take you to the access road. So… 611
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: bicycles or people walking would not be going around their whole property. They would just go through onto that bike path, and then back that same way. So, I haven't discussed this with them. I do intend to see if I can get their buy-in on that, because if you allow cars.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to go to the farm, you should allow bicycles.

They're not losing any parking, nothing, nothing like that. So, I'm hoping that they will agree that that would be a good solution, because you're also directing 613
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the bicycles and pedestrians just ride along the road, not going all around their property. So I would… I am willing to… well, Phil and I had browned up on this, and I'm willing to meet with the Burbank, people again and just see if I can get their buy-in.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Otherwise, there would be no resistance. 615
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… so part of the school is that we'd have to spend $35,000 for a feasibility study.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Is that all our expense? And then… 618
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because I understand developing the trail is… is going to be… So, so we're not, approving a budget. That was just an estimate that was provided. The city, if the Council want us to review what this would be to bring it back as far as the budget was, that's what the goal is tonight. The goal is not approving the 619
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the study, it's just us to bring it back, because we need to determine what that is, if that is actually 35, or… So, I think the 35 is referring to a desktop study, which we were hoping is… Well, so I have another… I'm not done. I have another. So, because the two budget
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: many folks are also brown-acted on this issue. I would only feel comfortable supporting this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: if this came back to full council before a recommendation was made by the Budget Committee, so we could literally see what it's going to cost to support this idea. Not just have it get in the budget, and then we get… get it… I want to have it in advance in a separate agenda item. 622
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If we're gonna move forward on this, because I… I have heard, as the representative for SCTCA, we got it in, and they continue to say it's, 623
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: what is the word?Aspirational goal, and so I have a lot of hesitation that the city would put money out for something that couldn't be accomplished.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I know maybe there's no guarantees, but I don't want to…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't want to spend money and have it just be… 626
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: As a former council member said in public comment, another study sitting on the shelf.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Right?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The $35,000 comes from Tony Bertolero. She… she had a…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, and keep in mind, we may take the projects in steps anyway, but
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'd support at least looking at it and getting it. 632
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, the Council could either support 633
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the staff to looking at bringing this back as to what the cost would be, or you could take it off the goal and bring it back as aseparate agenda item. So I have a question. If this is going to, excuse me, staff to assess this. 634
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Who is assessing this? I'm just trying to figure out, is this one of our consultants that we're paying a lot of money for, and they're assessing it all? Or, like, who is it that's… is it… is it our engineer, or is it…I would have to ask Oriana who would be doing the, so Oriana would be doing it.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Our Public Works Director. 636
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Soyou already have something? I'm sorry, it's playing music out there, that's why.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, yeah, Tony Bertolero had gotten some pricing to look at this feasibility of the Apple Blossom Trail last year from WTrans, and it would kind of look at where the private property intersections are, kind of what the traffic flow is, and if it's a feasible alignment to move forward with, and that $35,000 was the price of that. 638
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: last year. So the first stepwould be to kind of look at that, potentially in light of this realignment, and see if there's anything that needs to change from what she asked them to price.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then get some, new pricing from WTrans to do the feasibility, would be the first step.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we could bring that to Council for review. And I have the same thought of it would need to come back to us. Go ahead, Councilmember Hinton. Yeah, so when you say that
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: My mind goes…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Tony Bertolari Alero had it, blah blah blah. But it was never budgeted. No. No. It was never in our budget, we never agreed to it, it was just a pie in the sky, this is what it could be from W-Trans.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And so you'd go to WTrans and see if that's still the cost, and then we'd have to come back to full council, and we'd have to decide whether we want to spend it. Yeah, that's correct. She just asked for a proposal of what that cost would be, so I can revise the pricing and then bring that to you for further evaluation. 644
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I'm okay if we want to change this vote to being… we're going to bring this back to Council.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Instead of having it be a goal, but the goal would be to bring it to Council.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's an agenda. Yeah, the goal would be to bring it back as an agenda. So does that mean we're putting this on our goal list, or we just have two council members who are agreeing that they're going to bring back an item? That's the question I have.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So it doesn't… oh, go ahead, sorry, go ahead. 648
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, I mean, I support it as a goal, because it's just like, I've heard a lot ofcommunity input, I've gotten lots of calls, lotsofemails. I definitely support it as a goal, what's following Councilmember Hinton's thought, because the two on the budget have Brown Acted, I would want whatever
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We'redirecting staff to do to bring it back to us for our consideration, and making sure that we're not getting locked into something that maybe we could push off expense on someoneelse.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, and I'm… I'm of the same thought. I… I just don't, you know…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm in full support of the full council knowing everything about this, yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so leaving it as a priority, with it being a separate agenda item, Councilmember Carter? Yes. CouncilmemberHinton? 653
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes for the goal. Councilmember Zolman? Yes for the goal. Vice Mayor Maurer?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes. Mayor McLewis? For the goal in coming to the full council. Okay. So, the next item is the Gravestein Trail development. 655
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so what I'm actually asking for is about 10 hours of time to get this to… since most of the gravison Trail, the way I see it, is largely part of the state and the county, I just would like to get it into Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: parks and open space, or ag and open space with the county, so… and it must be initiated with the city, so I'm just looking for 5 to 10 hours of their time to start that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm sorry, probably because I'm getting tired, but what didyou say? I have the same thing, I didn't understand. Like, whywe would want to pay money to convince a county to egg an open space to do what you would think they would be mandated to do anyway, so I'm confused.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I had the same question. 660
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So this… the project, I've talked to Parks and Ag, or Ag and Open Space, and the project must be initiated with us.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We have a small, very small portion that's in Sebasopol, and a largeamount of it is in thecounty, and it's there. What project? Gravinstein Trail upgrade. No, no, I understand where, but what do you want to do to it other than a bathroomupgrade?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, that's a separate… that's the next item. 663
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That would have built the trail. 664
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, okay, I'm just trying to understand, to prioritize Laguna Wetlands include possible bathroom upgrade. It's all in one little line, that's why I'm trying tounderstand. The bathroom is separate, that's Laguna Wetlands. 665
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This isa totally different thing. 666
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Oh, I see. Nevermind. Sorry, I moved on.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We have… I had two twos. Okay, I see what you're saying, sorry. This was split per, Councilmember Bauer earlier, so to speak. Yeah, I know, I had two twos, that's why, I'm sorry. That's why I got confused. Go ahead. 668
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Do Ineed to elaborate further? 669
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just want about 10 hours of time to put this into the count… the county's… Q.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'll defer to Councilmember. So, as I sat on that board for 6 years, I'm just curious where this information has come from, and if it's been verified, because I don't think that's how the process works. 671
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I did attend meetings every month for 6 years on Ag and Open Space, so I… I… if I… I just want to do the… the ask. I'm… Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I think we have representatives, 3 of them from 3 cities, and mayor and council members, and what…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I would be fine with somebody verifying, but I don't think that's how it works. Let's take thehow it works out. I'm just asking for 10 hours. 674
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, we're not approving staff time tonight. We're approving the goal. We'll bring the task back, because the Council will need to come back to discuss the staff time. So, the item tonight, is this a priority for the…as a whole, for the Council to review the Gravenstein Trail development, and then we would bring a task back as to…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I mean, my feedback on this is we just are supporting the other trail that's mostly in our city, and 677
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I would… I would like to stay in that trail lane, at this point, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's where I sit. Most of this is in the county, so… Okay, so… so you're already a no, I mean… I'm a no, on this one. So, can we just take a vote? CouncilmemberCarter? Yes.Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, so I support the Gravenstein Trail development, but I just think with our budget constraints, it's probably better to just do one, rather than doing both, but I would really support…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter to walk this to the county, and to actually… and I'd work with you on this if you wanted. We could actually really clearly define that trail,and thentry to get buy-in from different stakeholders. 680
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just think that Apple Blossom trails farther along. 681
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so this is… this… I'm gonna ask the question about to keep this onas a priority?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.Councilmember Hinton?No. 684
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Zolman? No. 685
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: MayorMcLewis? No. Okay. Next one is to prioritize looking at a wetlands preserve, including a possible bathroom upgrade. Oh, there's that one. Sorry about that earlier.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I'd like to represent this, because it's my item, but I'd like to find what I… where I did the write-up on it, because, 688
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it wasn't just… anyway, it's really to work with staff, to take a look at the Laguna wetlands, not a study at all, but just to do a walk, to look at where does it need care.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because it's… it's… to me, it seems like it's not prioritized, and it's not cared for as much as it could be. 690
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then to talk with, talk with staff about connecting with the Little League in terms ofhaving
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: maybe an upgrade to the bathroom, but baby steps toward that, to find out, can that bathroom be open duringthe daytime? Because there isn't a bathroom in the Laguna Wetlands Preserve. This is a preserve, people come hiking there. There isn't a bathroom, and there should be a bathroom that's open during daytime hours, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This request for this is just to start the process of havingadiscussion with staff.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to see, you know, what's needed. And it could be a long-term goal, it could be first a short-term goal to identify the needs of better care for the Laguna,and then figuringout
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the issues with the bathroom could be unfolded, but and I'm willing to do the work on that, too, with Steph. 695
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Would you like me to explain your goal to read it? Yeah, please. Sure. Work with city staff.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to prioritize clean of the… to prioritize calls of the Laguna Wetlands Preserve, including working with the Little League onthe possibility of upgrading the existing ball field bathroom, better overall care ofthe Laguna wetlands. 697
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Daytime access to public bathrooms in their short term, and thencould be within budget, working with staff and volunteers. 698
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: In support of the bathroom upgrade, if possible. I have a question.Why doesn't this fall under, like, with the Laguna folks? 699
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Why does it fall to thecity? Well, it's in the city… it's within the city boundary. No, I understand that, but I'm just saying that we have an organization that is totally dedicated to… they're not prohibited from coming in the city, are they?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just asking, because I… I think the issue is, and trying to remember from when my kids played ball, is that the ball people only keep thatbathroomopen when there'sballgames,right?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's… and so it was closed. Can I… and I'll speak to that, because when it was open, we had transients that were going to the bathroom in the sink and all of that, so that's why it's locked. So that is for the ball kids, and then, I guess…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Maurer is suggesting… 703
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Either expanding that, remodeling that, or having an additional… Starting with a discussion about what can be done. 704
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Councilmember. So, as I understand this, it's… the first stop is going to be, like, Ann McGell, to talk about, like, share goals around whatever it is that you would like to do to help the area. 706
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Is that sort of what you're thinking about? Because otherwise, I don't want this to be another soccer field thing. Like, it seems like there's a natural partner, and if the first step isn't that, then I'm not really clear on what we're doing. Yeah, I have spoken with them, and they are open to partnering with the city on different projects.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… but in this particular case, I think it is the care of the wetlands. You know, one, see, Brent… what's his name? Robert Brent?Brent Reid said, he was talking about using goats over there in the Laguna. 708
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to help care for it. But… so they have ideas, but I think it alsoneeds to be communicated with staff.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can I just say, philosophically, I'm supportive of this, but realistically, right now, I'm not. Just because we have an organization, we have a limited budget, and knowing the whole bathroom issue and why I ended up locked up in the first place, I personally,just forthe sake ofmoving on, I'm not supportive tonight for that. 710
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,so we have one… no? Councilmember Carter?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are we supporting the whole wet… yeah, yes, the whole wetness. Councilmember Hinton?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, Council… not narrow enough.

Councilmember Zollman?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, I'm still very unclear about why we can't just work with a partner. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? No. Okay. Next one is the creationof atraffic ad hoc.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Committee? Sothis is another one ofmine, and I'm proposingthis as a response to the survey and all the public outcryabout traffic. And, I know it's a challenge, the traffic that we have inSebastopol, but 715
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: there were things that the city has done in the past, where the city asked Caltrans to put a sign up at Occidental Road 716
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: directing people to go to Santa Rosa, Instead of coming through town.
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SebastopolCommunityCulturalCenter:Samecould behappeningdown atLana Road, just a simple sign. Maybe now, Caltrans might…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Be willing to do that, since they are prioritizing, safety.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Rather than speed. So, I don't know. I don't know what can be done, but I thought it would be a good showing if the Council pulled together a trafficad hocthatcouldaddresstrafficand parkingand etc. 720
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I know thecity already has a traffic committee, so this would be just adding two council members to that. 721
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And I know that's a big ask, since we have limited staff, but, what committee is that forthe city?We have a staff committee that we talk about when we have issues come up.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It's not a council committee, it's just a… it's just department heads. Okay, go ahead. So, I'm not really gonna support it, because I want to support the idea through an existing channel.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so we have one… No, you said you do breathing. Could Imodify it, then?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, gotcha. I'm sorry. Can I… can I modify that, then? Could… could we ask the existing trafficcommittee to see if they could get a sign on Occidental directing people to go to Santa Rosa, instead of… if they, you know, instead of coming
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Through tone.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We can make an ask, but I will tell you the last time that we made the ask, they said no, but we can make an ask, and we can report back, we can take it off of this and report back to theCouncil what there was, because their concern was diverting traffic andthen their road maintenance and cost forthere to take care of their own roads. How many years ago did you make that ask? 727
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It's been a while, I would probably say at least 10 years. Yeah, I would support making that ask. I would just say I'm not supportive of an ad hoc with council members and everything. We all have many other commitments. So, just so we're clear, Councilmember Carter?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Wasn't no, correct? 729
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, if I'm voting on the committee, no. Okay, Councilmember, Hinton? No. CouncilmemberZolman? No. Vice Mayor Maurer? No. Mayor McLewis? No. Okay. So, number,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: 4s, roads, and potholes, that can be into our continuing priorities of resurfacing and potholes. Parks and public spaces, including Ives, some of the comments that I had read were regarding, like, our ADA pathway, making it more accessible.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then… but there was also some about, you know, events and…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Things like that. So, we already have this, these in our priorities.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. I have something to add whenever you're… Yeah, bike and infrastructure trails, so the trails we just discussed. 734
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Bike infrastructure, we include those, like, into our… our…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: projects, when we have some, we've done Benedet Avenue, so, those are the priorities, so I would say that these are, you know, just being reviewed as we go through our projects. Sidewalk and pedestrian safety, we did discuss this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then water and sewer infrastructure was high.

This would, again, be incorporated into our wastewater plans, our infrastructure, our sewer plan, our welfare update, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: those are already merged. My recommendation is to accept 4,5, 6, 7, and8 as to priorities that are already ongoing withcity staff. I had to clear… I needed to clarify something. I agree.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, Ijust want to clarify something first. So, with the parks and public spaces, one of the questions I had is about completing the ADA sidewalk there in the parks. Does that… is this where a priority needs to be put in? 739
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I believe that's on our work plan already, so… That's why I wanted to clarify if that is still… so I'm looking here. Yeah, do you know where the completion is on that? The ADA pathway for export? The full plan, not just part of it, but the full… I'm sorry, summer?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: For the whole shebang? 741
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's what I want to make sure. 742
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: They're currently designing the Phase 2, which is from the bathroom to the Center for the Arts parking lot, and we stopped them there just in deference to what's going on with the Calder Creek project, because that… where that alignment would continue the rest of the way would have to get ripped out if we do that Phase 1 of the Calder Creek.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Correct me if I'm wrong, we have no estimate for when that's going to befinished, correct? Correct.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And so my concern is, is regardless of that, we have people with ADA issues that still need to get to the park, regardless of what our timing is. So I personally want to advocate that weneed to finish that and honor,I mean. 745
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it's something we… we should… we should be doing, regardless. So we're completing it to the ADA, stall, so that folks can drive to the ADA stall, and they'll have full access to the park from where we're stopping the Phase 2. 746
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, either way, I just… I personally just think that… and thenthe other question I have is about finishing the fence. 747
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: thewhole shebang? So, I don't believe… we were doing the first phase. Don't believe we've budgeted yet for the secondphase. 748
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, we had some preliminary budgeting that I pulled out for this meeting, and to cut budgets, to do the next phase for the same reason. It will be about $100,000, and if we're potentially going to be removing that in the next couple of years.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: wanted the Council to make that choice if we're going to spend that money. Well, but we don't know that's going to be in a couple years, because we've been saying that for a decade, for however long it's been. 750
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I personally just am advocating for those two things, because I just think that we need to get some of these things done, and the fencing with this
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SebastopolCommunityCulturalCenter:urbanlegend of finishingtheCalderCreek project.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I personally want to advocate. We want the park to look nice now, not 20 years from now.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I don't know if anyone's with me on that, but that's what… what I wanted to clarify, because I wasn't sure in that… in that piece there whether or not…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just a general, yeah. 755
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not sure which part you're trying to pull out. 756
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are you… I'm not trying to pull out any of these, I'm trying to clarify and get more detailed on. I'm advocating for us to… 757
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, make certain that whatever ADA needs to be finished, that it's finished. I see,but it's on the list. 758
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Well, not comp… no, it's not. It says ADA Walkway in Ives Park.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It's number 16. Right. That's the Phase 2, so that's to the Center for the Arts, portion, so if we're going to do it the rest of the way, we would want Council direction to do that that may or may not
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center:conflict with the Calder Creek project. 761
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Where are you looking at, Sandy, that you're looking at? Oh, you're looking underthe high perform… that's under high performance organization. I was just… Actually, it's city staff. It's… it's… it's… It's item 16, under Goal 3.

Item 16, under Goal3.City staff, new revised carryover projects,88…number 16. 762
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Why don't I not have a 6… I have it going up to 14. 763
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We're under Vole 3. 764
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then I have number 4… 765
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Let me look here, I'm sorry, just trying to get this in order. Okay, so it's number 16, sorry.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So the question I have still is, is just, I personally just want to advocate that it, whether it's under public input or it's here, wherever, it's just the topic in general, whether or not… I just want to make sure that we get it done to its completion and the fence done to completion.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Regardless of Calder Creek, because it's an urban legend in my mind.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Just asking. So, is there support forcity staff to return
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: with additional information as to what it would… for cost for finalizing the 8A pathway andthe fencing for additional sections. Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, I'm sorry. Are we looking at items 9 through17?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No, right now, we're on the parks and public spaces, so one of them could be merged with number 16, which is the ADA walkway in Knives Park.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But the request… Some of them are kind of duplicates, so that's why I didn't know where it was best to bring it up, so that's… Yeah, either here or in number 16, but the request, as my understanding, is to look at 773
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Completing the ADA pathway and the fencing 774
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Regardless of where we're at with Calder Creek right now, the… the grant application and the three… the, that application. That's my understanding.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, I'm sorry. Yes. I feel like we already… 776
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: voted on this and discussed it at a council meeting not too long ago, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sowehave… Are we undoing that vote? Because on the project itself? Yeah, because we agreed to submit the applications for theCalder Creek project, and…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I… I don't know… I think the… That's why we approved part of the fence, and… and not the extra $100,000 that was just discussed, so… 779
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: understand where we are at. I don't have enough information. I feel like we did address this
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Within the last 6 months, and… So we did. We had the concept, we were applying for the grant. We're putting in the upper portion of the fencing. Now, we've done the ADA pathway for certain things. What I'm hearing from the mayor is that
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: When the grant application's gonna come through, or if it's gonna come through.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: my… my understanding is that she's requesting what I'm hearing tonight, is to… is to, regardless of where the grant is, is to… to look at continuing the fence all the way through as one item.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That's… yeah, I mean, I just… I mean, we've received emails about people falling and breaking their arms on… because the path isn't… I mean, we've received emails like that in the past, so that's why, especially with the ADA, I mean, I'm just… it just seems to me that that's…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: our responsibility. 787
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead, Vaxime. So, I support the CUSP grant project, and that does take time. It takes time to apply for these and come back, and I…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not ready to say, go ahead and spend a whole bunch of money on a fence that may be getting taken out, because you're changing the route of the creek there. And same with the ADA pathway. I think I just want to stay within the legal bounds, whatever we're supposed to do with that, and make sure that happens. 789
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But not… not in conflict with the CUSP, grant. So, that's my opinion.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Do you think it was… And theADA sidewalk? 791
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because those are two separate. 792
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm really unclear about how we're voting right now, because I want tovote to support theIvesand a lot of that stuff, but, you know, now we're splitting it into a different thing, and I'm kind of losing it. Sorightnow, for items 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not hearing support for the, fencing, the continuing of the fencing, so that is not included into what we're supporting, which would be the potholes, which we've already talked about, parks and public spaces, we've done… we're doing the ADA, we're…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: For the, you know, we've done that path already. 795
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Bike infrastructure and trails, we review those as we're doing projects. Sidewalk and pedestrian spacing, we continue to do that as it is. We Agenda Item Number 1
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also have the Sustainable Transportation Grant, as well as the PDA, and then the water sewer, master plans that are coming forward. That is what you would be supporting right now.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we'll come back to the ADA when we come to number 16, as far as the additional pathway requests, is what I'm hearing. Is there support for these items that I just stated? Because they're built into our infrastructure and our public works.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So then, to the next items, these are carryovers. 798
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The, grant funding opportunities, we're looking at that. The city asset management system, we're looking at as well for inventories. 799
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Our roadway systems, tracking orders, maintenance activities, inspection programs, delivering the capital improvement program.

We will be implementing the projects, and we'll bring in the CIP back to the Council for approval.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Storm drain plan, the removal of silt from the Calder Creek pipeline.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the CUS grant, the Rotary Centennial Plan, which the Rotary's doing it for Ives Park, the SCTA funding plan cycle for Planning Cycle 2, and then this is where the ADA walkway in Ives Park
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So this, my understanding, though, was just to complete what we currently have, because we didn't know if it was going to be completed by June 30th, correct?Which is why it was a carryover, or is thisthe new section? 803
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It's item number 16, ADA Walkway in Ives Park. 804
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: as a goal, I'm not sure it was defined, but currently we've completed the first section. The secondsection was on our current year's CIP, which will be done by June 30th, and I thinkthe direction is whether or not todo it past the, the candy cap stall at the Center for the Arts.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Right, and I think when this came on, it was a section, too, that we weren't sure if we were going to have it done by June 30th, which is why we were putting it onto a carryover, but it sounds like… We probably won't have it completely constructed by June30th.Okay. It'll be designed and into construction. Okay. 806
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So that's why it's a carryover for that portion of it.

Now we'retalkinga…a new pathway?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just… I just wanted to make sure, because every time I've asked about this, so we're doing this section, we're doing that section, and I just think that
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: this is an ADA sidewalk. It's not because it's just a luxury, and it just seems to me that we owe our residents to have ADA-compliant sidewalk, you know, in our park. So I just wanted… my question was just. 809
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, is it possible to finish that? Everybody deserves to have access to the park, and when we're not doing that, and it's an ADA issue, I don't know, I just have problems with that.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I think most of the public would. 811
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. 812
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just want to vote on all the other carryovers and support that, but, only support the ADD. The completion of the ADA pathway for Phase2? Yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, I kind of… I'm seconding what the Vice Mayor said, can't we just dothis as a block? That's what I did. Iread allof those. I'm just doing the one, the 80… I have to get to the whole voting and moving along now. 814
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So what's before me, or… I'm sorry, not before me, what's before you right now is what I just read, which is the completion of the second phase for the… let me go back, sorry. It is the grant opportunities that we continue to do, the city's asset management system.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: delivering the CIP program for next year, the storm drain removal silt from Calder Creek, the CUS grant.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: applications, the Rotary Centennial Plan for Ives Park, the SCTCA funding plan for Cycle 2, the ADA Walkway in Ives Park, which is the completion of the second phase, and then continue to pursue the trench cut ordinance. 817
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The building maintenance and funding needed for the set-aside for the major components, and then also fleet development. Those are continuing projects. That is what we're here
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I heard, though, that the mayor wanted to add, 819
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the ADA for the third phase, so… 820
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That would need to be a separate… would be a separate… That's what we were talking about. So can we… are we all in agreement for continuingthese?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes. All good. The next, then, would be if you wanted to add a…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: another additional item for the ADA walkway, and whether there's support for that or not.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Question.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. Is this on the current… is Phase… there's a Phase3? I just want to make… be clear. There is a Phase 3, and is it on the current CIP for next year, or is it being held up becauseof the CUS grant? 825
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It is not currently on the CIP for next year because of theconflict with thedesign for CUSP.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can I ask a follow-up? Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. But you said earlier, with Phase 1 and 2, we are ADA compliant, we just, they have to drive in and then get out of the car. Correct. Phase 2 will take us to the ADA parking stall in the parking lot of the Center for the Arts. Okay, so, yeah, thank you. 828
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Otherquestions? 830
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, is there support? 831
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Nope.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay,Councilmember Carter? 833
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No. Councilmember Hinton? 834
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: For the list. For the three. No, for the… this… so the… the whole list continue we did over, the mayor asked to add a new item, so this new… That's what we're voting on, is the new item? The new item. No. Okay. Councilmember Solman? No. Vice Mayor Maurer? No. Mayor McLewis? Yes. Okay. 835
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, the next item now is the… get there… 836
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: high-performance Organization. The first one is to establish the West County Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District, EIFD. 837
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is… the subcommittee has been created.

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hold as of last year, which is why it is back on here for the priorities. So, this is to… if you want to keep this as a goal, and then the subcommittee would return with additional tasks. 838
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. My understanding, the last time this came, we discussed this, that it was gonna go to the Budget Committee in the springs to see what kind of money we had in order to move it forward or not. 839
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: dependent on the budget, so that's my understanding of where it was. And so, I don't, I remember it was more like $50,000 to $70,000, not $20,000.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I don't… I don't know where that $20,000 comes from.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And it seems to me like that that was something we were already moving forward, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm a little confused about why we would vote on that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I… didyou go ahead? Well, I sat on this with Steven. First, Diana sat on it with Steven, then I replaced Diana, now Phil's replaced Steven.

So the county had been funding it, and then the county… we weren't moving forward because of our budget tax…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: measure, and we didn't want to do anything, and so nowthe county stopped funding us, and wegotta figure it out. But, 845
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Phil and I still have on the agenda to meet, and like another goal, I think we should decide if we want to have it on the goal list, not just have it
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I… budget committee make a decision. I mean, I think it's a goal we're working towards with subcommittees. I thought you had said at one meeting that you were going to get the county to pay for that fee. That's what… that's where that was left.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: That you were going to get them to pay for the 20K? Thecounty… the last I heard is we had expired our funds that Linda had provided us, which were $65,000, if I recall from memory.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And that, to move forward, because now we're no longer doing an EIFD with the 5th District, she's moved forward with the 5th District. 849
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we wanted our own project, and so I think we haven't asked her for more money, but
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: she'sgiven us money, and we would have to figure out what the next phase costs. We could always ask, but we would likely have to bear some of that cost. Isn't that what you recall? Yeah, I do, and I would support it,keeping as a goal to have the ad hoc, which we did bless the two of you.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to sit down with her and figureout, like, where we are, because months have passed, and magical stuff could happen in those months. I'm just gonna say, just for sake of time, I'm not supportive of it. I haven't been, ever, so… Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Just for the sake of it, time. 853
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I'm just… I'm just saying what I think, just because, for the sake of time, and it's 8 o'clock. 854
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm not sure if I support the EIFD or not, but out of respect for the fact that this has been a goal and being discussed, and it has an ad hoc committee, I will support this moving forward, but I don't… I just don't know where I stand on it personally, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter? Yes.Councilmember Hinton? Yes. Councilmember Zolman? Yes. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? 856
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: No. Okay?
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processes, and early engagement on operational budget and workforce issues. Yes, this is mine, and as we all may remember, and Mary helped me work this out. 858
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We all voted.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: On sending a letter to the union, both of them, to have an open public workshop to talk about, like, how we can help them meet their goals of paying people what they feel like people need to be paid, but also for us to have nice things in the city, like better parks.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: comments, whatever. To have an open dialogue about what the holdup is, we all authorized me to sign the letter, and all of a sudden. 861
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it didn't get there in time for the last labor negotiations, and I'm still upset by that, but I would like to have us say, yes, we do want them to be outreached to.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to have a public workshop in public and talk about how we're gonna end up, like, accomplishing both goals, get paid what you want, but we also have goals. We need parks, we need better roads, and right now, the two are not coming together, in my mind, so I would like to have
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: staff investigate what could come from that, and let us know whether they're accepting of the letter, or they're not accepting. If they're not accepting, I'd like to know in writing why they're not accepting to come to a public forum and talk this out.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We have not received a response from them. I did do some research. We did send it out in July, so we… and then we re-sent it back out in November.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we have gotten no response. Right, so I would like to have staff Resendcommunication saying, yo.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we do know you got the letter, and yo, what is your response? And if your response is to take a jump, then tell us that inwriting, that you don't want to come to a public meeting to try to work out a win-win for everyone.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can Iask a question? 868
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: from, I guess, maybe our attorney. Isn't that just negotiating in public? Imean, I'm not clear on… I've just never heardof this kind of thing, so I'm just not real clear on…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: what… Well, I mean, I had to put a lot of pressure, but Alex approved the letter that we all signed, so… Yeah, I just… Yeah, I just… well, I'm just saying about the coming together in a public workshop and talking about what they want.

I'm just asking, because I… it just… it sounds like negotiating, and… 870
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… There is a fine line between negotiating terms versus, noticing a
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: meeting under the Brown Act, where you can have an open discussion, and also, as a council, setting a priority to work with labor unions, that's… that's acceptable. You're not negotiating, you know, the nuts and bolts of the terms of the agreement with the labor union. Council would have a discussion, and then Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: we'd… we'd move forward. You're essentially setting policy.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Oh, go ahead, Councilmember Hinton. 874
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: You know, I wasn't sure about this when I came into this, but…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We know that recently, because once we are in a negotiation mode.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We end up not being able to say anything. 877
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And the other side is standing outside with a picket sign. And so, that's a frustrating frustration that I've had, and I don't want it to continue. Our employees are…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: are… are… they're running our city, and we want… I want a great relationship. I… I just…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It's a tough position, because when you work for a private entity, or you don't have union support.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, you get a raise, or you get what the company gives you, and we try to… I feel like the Council, in my 10 years on the Council, has really tried to support our employees, and I don't think that comes through to the public very well, because once we're in negotiation, it's all about 881
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: negotiation, and we can't talk. So, I would be supportive of this goal. I think this summer is a good time to have an extra meeting, just like we have an extra meeting tonight. And,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And not when we're in the heat of negotiation, and so I think it's an aspirational goal, to be honest.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Council. Oh, are you just doing thumbs up? Oh, okay. Did you have your hand up? Yes, I do. So… 884
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I would support
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: an additional meeting, I guess that's what we'd be asking, but it would be an invitation that we've already sent. 886
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Basically. So I think maybe the invitation needs to be clarified about what we're really going tobe talking about. And then… 887
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Then it's… then, just out of respect for, you know, you put something out there, they don't respond, then…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Then let it go.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Imean, I… what else couldyou do? So, I would be supportive of the trying to… to have a discussion, but I also want to have a lot of cla… more clarity about what really we're talking… what's the discussion about, and… because 890
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: they're going to be interested in supporting their wages and their families, and it makes sense, right? That, 891
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So… I don't know what else to say about it, but I'd be willing to give it a shot.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I guess that just leaves me scratching my head, because we're sitting here right now talking about exactly what we want, and we could have, I mean.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: If they've not responded twice, I feel like no response is a response, so I guess I'm just… I hear what everyone's saying, and it's aspirational, but I just… at some point.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are we asking just for them to send the letter again rightnow? Isthatwhat…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, it could also be because we were in the middle of negotiations?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: that they did not want to respond at that time, so, one of the tasks could be, I mean, to keeping the goal, strengthening the relationship. So that… Okay. That's thepriority, right? We can come back withthe task about resending it, we could refine the letter, so that would be myrecommendation. Keep the goal, we'll bring back a task, is what the next step would be. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Councilmember Carter? 898
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.Councilmember Hinton?Yes. Councilmember Zollman? Yes. Vice Mayor Maurer? Yes. Mayor McLewis? Yes. Okay. Next one is… kind of falls under the,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: one of the business listening sessions, so this is Council Responsiveness and Listening to Community Input. 900
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: One of the things we do is the… the business guardian. We did, one town hall and two, or one event recognizing women businesses. It'll be a further goal down the road. This could also be having a town hall. This could be being more responsive, you know, to emails.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But this is one of the high goals as far as getting… listening to the community members and being responsive, so… 902
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't have any tasks offhand, but I just made some recommendations, but, I think it is a goal to
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: To be open and transparent and, you know, listening to the community.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And responding to emails. 905
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are we all good? Nope. Okay. Next one is fiscal management and reducing waste.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is, you know, of course, it is a big goal for us to be fiscally responsible. We are going throughways that we can reduce, you know, nonessential expenditures, making sure that we're getting the best products, making sure that our contracts are responsive to our needs.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So it kind of goes into fiscal management in… 908
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So it's kind of incorporated into our goal, so I don't know if we need to keep it as a separate goal.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I would recommend incorporating it into our financialresponsibilities.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.Next one is the sitting staffing level… level, sorry, the,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: City…staffing levels and filling city vacancies. This is similar to an earlier one. This is supporting our transparency and creating, recruiting, training, and competing for talent.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We have been doing aggressive recruitments. As I stated earlier, our police department, they have, quite a few of the openings and backgroundsrightnow,theapplicantsand backgrounds.Wearegettingfullystaffed with them, other than the one frozen position.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Our Public Works Department is fully staffed. Building and, is fully staffed.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The planning department, we have had issues with recruiting. There have been lack of, applications. We are now on our third recruitment from that. We put it out there,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: widely. I will say, though, I did get some information back from our recruiters, as well as our other cities, that they did just recently do a associate planner recruitment, and that might be a positive. So, we have reopened that already. We're going to reopen the planning director 916
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But we will do requests for planning services right now in case that falls through, but we are continually, too, looking to bring on and train. Our newest employees are, I think.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: create hires, I cannot speak highly enough of how well they're being trained, how well they're doing. They're getting cross-trained, so I think this is a goal we need to keep.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Thumbs up!
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is transparency, accountability, and public trust.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We are committed to increasing our transparency, our accountability, and regaining our public trust. We do everything we can right now to do that. I'd like to keep this as a goal.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Next one is…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Positive… proactively managing the loss of institutional knowledge by documenting procedure, practices, and processes. This goes back to staffing. We are creating continuityof operation plans for ourcity, for city personnel, so that if something happens, someone can come in behind us, so I'd like to have this as a goal.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: municipal code updates. This is looking to our, Muni code, our zoning ordinance, to look at what we can do to, 925
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: update… update the code, first of all, but including new items that are not in there right now, which are, like, a sidewalk maintenance, the turf and water that's a requirement, so I would maintain this as a goal. 926
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Next one is to strengthen development review integration with all departments. This kind of goes into long-term staffing, kind of goes into the item right above it, as far as maintaining institutional knowledge, and also as far as staffing level and city vacancies.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I would… the… there's two goals that could be merged, so we can move… merge these together, but if we can just go ahead and do a thumbs up for the staffing.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Next one is the Citadel Council Protocols and Procedures. I'd like to keep this. We are continually updating our handbook.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is avoiding the builder's remedy.

These are our continuing, the ABAG is a continuing, the SmartGov is a continuing, and Shared Services is a continuing. So these are all carryovers. Okay? Question. 930
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: There's a new law that says you cannot have, nonfunctional turf, and I see you have it listed here. 931
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But so, for example, like, the police department has a lawn, which then would violate that new law, and so does the community center. So, 932
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Does that need to be a goal? Imean, it seems like it's a law, so you have to do it.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It is… it is a lot, but we should also have it in our ordinance as well, because there may be certain areas, correct me if I'm wrong, but there are certain areas that we have to do it, and there may be other areas that we want to do it, so it would be something we'd be bringing
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: theones that we have to do are definitely law. There may be others that we're bringing back that we may want you to consider. 935
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just want to make sure we're compliant with that law. Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And it… just to add to that, it doesn't go into effect untilJanuary1,2027,so…Thanks,Skylar.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then as our, again, everyday values, achieving our staffing, restoring public trust, and improving ourcommunications, and thencrosstraining, which we'll definitely continue to do. 938
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Long-term, financial sustainability… Let me take a break.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Can we take a break? Yes, wecan, if you'd like to. Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sowhat time is it? Let me see here. 941
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Q-toy. Is it okay if we get started, or… Okay. 942
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Alright, we are back for… we are at goal number 5, correct?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We are on long-termfinancialsustainability,goal 5, clean… the first one is from CouncilmemberCarter, Clean Energy Rate Competitiveness, GeoZone Investment.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm just gonna scratch that. 945
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I can't talk about it, and so, like, whatever.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Next one is a pavement asset management. We do have a pavement plan that is already integrated into staff, and we bring the items forward for the streets. So this one is actually duplicated into our city staff goals. 947
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So I'd recommend just going ahead, and we could remove this one as we are doing it already.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, the next one is the reviewing the cost allocation plan and making necessary adjustments.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This is from Councilmember Zolman. 950
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah, as I said publicly, I'm not going to be prepared to pass or to vote on a budget or a CIP plan without something from staff to clarify all the stuff that we heard from the public about theconcerns about the cost allocation plan.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: SoI don't know what theplan is for staff. I know staff doesn't haveone. I would like to send directionthat we have some type of prep 952
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: discussion, and not have it just be thrown in the middle of a budget. Like, hi, your budget folder's in your cubicle, go get it, and then show up, and then I'm supposed to force my way into having a conversation that I don't understand this cost allocation plan. So I want to say that publicly, and see where it lands. 953
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I'm sorry, go ahead. Question. When is the, cost allocation plancoming back to the Council? May 5th. 954
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: May 5th, and so it will be before the full budget is heard. That is correct. So the Budget Committee and the Enterprise Committee have had a presentation on the CAS allocation. There is a recommendation as a placeholder, moving forward as to adjusting certain things for direct charges, such as the city attorney fees, but the City Council will get a full presentation on May 4th before this comes before the City Council… before the Council for a budget.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so I'm prepared to just drop that, but what type of presentation? Isit going to bea fly-by-night, 10-minute thing, and it's just like, and then a jam schedule, or what type of presentation am I going to get? So, it'll… 956
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: be the presentation similar to what the Budget Committee got, which is what we're… what our… what the cost allocation plan was 957
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: is now, which is… and then what we're proposing to do moving into the future, it'll be… it'll be explaining exactly how we're changing it. 958
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, just as a prime example, really quickly, so currently we do, the cost allocation plan is on adopted budget. 959
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We're recommending certain departments come out, like city attorney, they are direct charges, but we're also looking at doing an actual budget versus an expenditures versus the adopted. So you will… we will have itself 960
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: hopefully self-explanatory and transparent as to what those changes are going to be. It is a step-by-step process. We're not changing the entire plan.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then one of the other things we'll be bringing forward is that, as part of that, every 3 to 5 years, we will be updating that cost allocation plan. So, it'll be from the consultant, city staff,and city attorney onthese major… So is it an informational thing, and they're going to be limited to 10 minutes, and we got a pack thing, or how much time do you, and it sounds like maybe the agenda review, have already allocated forthat night? Because I really wouldlike it to be 962
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: A slow process, so we're not feeling rushed. The public isn't feeling rushed, and everyone can walk away with, like. 963
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: you know, things may not have been great, but now we have a plan moving forward, so those are the things I would like to know. I can answer that. I don't… the Vice Mayor, but it… just really quickly, we have set aside, I believe it was 2 hours.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: for this present… for the item to be heard at the May 5th City Council meeting on the cost allocation. So it's not going to be a 10 minutes, here you go. It'll be a back-and-forth conversation, so that we make sure the Council Agenda Item Number 1
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understands exactly what the proposal is moving forward. Okay, then I'm prepared to just drop this.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Vice Mayor? Just to clarify, onMarch the 30th. 966
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the Budget Committee and the Enterprise Oversight Committee, we met together. We discussed, fully discussed this. This is recorded.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It was, March 30th. It would be under the Budget Committee recording, so there is a presentation and all the discussions, etc. So that was a long meeting, too.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yeah. Can I just make, just make a recommendation? I understand you want to drop it, but I think it is a goal, and I think we should keep it as a goal only, because it is… it'll be a yearly, and it's very important to the community, so I would recommend keeping it as a goal.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I'm sure I just didn't want to suck up a bunch of air. Councilmember Hill had her. I'm fine. I was just gonna say, I think we should keep it as a goal, because it's an important one, and, our goals are our priorities, so… I do too. Okay. 970
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.Okay, so all… all five, okay. Yeah. 971
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is also from Councilmember Zolman,and thisisthereviewingof thepension or,otherbenefitfundinglevels. 972
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Because every time we get into budget session, I think I direct it to Ana, I'm like, so…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I've heard past Council members, like, you have a huge thing of, like, if you're not keeping track of your pension and OPEB, you're not doing your due diligence, and I can't even remember what it says, but it just seems like it's just a shot, and then a shot back.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And we're going to get back to you. I would like to have a full-on discussion from
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: whatever expert we have. I don't know who are our OPEB invention experts. I'd like to have them have a solid chunk of time so that we can understand if we're doing right by our investments into our trust that we did set up, like. 976
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't know, two and a half years ago. I want some thorough discussion about whether we're being responsible with looking after that ongoing risk to the city, so that's my thought. I just want to encourage you to keep the microphone closer. People can't hear online when you're this far away. 977
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yes.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Is it me?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Councilmember. Yeah, so this was a huge topic when I sat on the Budget Committee for 6 years, and I sat on a separate committee
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: that analyzed our pension, and when it was going to peak, and how much we should be putting away, and… and I agree, we… we've kind of… I feel like I've completely lost track of it. I mean, I believe it was something I even ran on the first time I ran for office, and…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We're… we haven't been talking about it, we've just lost track of it, so I'd like to leave this on the goal sheet as well. 982
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And as a member of the budget, we do hear about it, but it's not… it's for us, and I wanted y'all to hear it, so I support it. 983
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't think we've done a real detailed review of it, except for, Bob…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Leland, Leland. Leland, yeah, he's reviewed it. So we can have our CalPERS liability, too. So, I think that the priority, I'm seeing full support for the priority, and we'll bring the task back on that.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The next one is public input about balancing budgetconcerns,which goestofiscalresponsibility. 986
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: new revenue generation, such as tourism, the TOT, and this was a goal that was carried over regarding increasing revenue base and diversifying city revenue.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Spending reductions and limiting to consulting costs, and then interest in hotel development to increase the TOT revenue. So these are comments from the public input.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, for the balanced budget, that is always a council priority. Those are built into, new revenue generator. We are currently meeting with Sonoma County Tourism to see, how wecould utilize their effortstheyhave working with us about
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: One, doing their website, making sure all the businesses are updated, but we're also meeting with them separately. 990
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Also, the… I don't have the name in front of me, 991
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: they had just reached out, they're working as part of Sonoma County Tourism, but it was the Chamber. They're also working with us about certain ways that we can increase revenue coming to the city. Hotel development, you did hear from
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Daniele, regarding the Hotel Sebastopol, 993
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Barney Aldridge will becoming in May or June to give an update on his project, so we are continuing to work with them to try to get his hotel. 994
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The first three, again, those are maintaining a balanced budget, so I think those are built into ours, and then the hotel, that is also as part of our economic development, so I don't think we need to restate these, because they are built into our goals.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The new one is reviewing and evaluation… evaluating reserve policies. I do think we need to look at this. So it's been a while since we've looked at the reserve policy, so I think it needs to be a goal. 997
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: technology, this is, looking at what policies or what programs we can do, such as OpenGov and things like that, to bring items back to make sure that there's,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: better communication, better ease of trans… you know, of community members looking at our website, looking at our budgets, looking at our documents to make that more, so I would keep that as a priority. 999
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Striving to achieve cost recovery goals for feebased services, we're reviewing our impact fees, our user fee schedules. We're also looking at,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: How to major… how to… That's a word I'm looking for.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: internal protocols to make sure that we are, billing the cus… you know, billing the developers for the time, and making sure we're doing that routinely, so that is an internal protocol that has been built into place. 1002
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Reducing utility costs by identifying strategies to increase efficiency andsustainability, so working with, like, Sonoma King Power, to see, like, how we could reduce our costs. Conducting a comprehensive community engagementtobuild theunderstandingof cityservicesfinancingandbudgeting, 1003
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: This was a city staff goal, where they would like to, Do some type of…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: promotion on the city website, through our community newsletter, about, How city services work.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it's… to me, that goes back to transparency, communication, and things, so I feel it's a duplicate. So I would prefer to merge that into some… into one of the other goals.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: continue to evaluate the most cost-effective method of providing services with flexibility and economic conditions, including the use of contracted services, shared services, and regular and limited-term employees. Again, this goes back to our staffing, recruiting.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: But, I mean, I want to be honest, we do have to use consultants, we do have to use, you know, services, we may be using 960 annuitants to help out in, you know, short term, so I would like to keep that as a goal. 1008
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Implementing efforts for improved business license compliance and strengthening our code enforcement. 1009
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I know we don't havea lot of staff, and this is a goal, but, you know, as we can, I like to make sure that our businesses are in compliance, so, we're gonna continue to work on this, but I would like to keep it as a goal. 1010
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: The update our financial policies, ensuringthese meet CIRA requirements. That's a goal, we need to make sure our policies match theirs.

Doing the impact fees, which I just said, user fee schedule, and then still working with grants. So…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Those are, in a nutshell, either the ones that have been carried over, or ones that the city staff is recommending. 1012
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Any questions?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Go ahead, Vice Mayor. 1014
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: it seems like there's a lot of new ones there, and that I…I mean, you're part of the staff, you know what the staff can. Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: is capable of doing, you know, so do you feel that these are doable goals? Because there are quite a few new ones here. Yeah, so the priorities, I think they're key priorities.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: We may only be able to do one or two things of them, but I think it's key that we keep those items on there. Okay. So yeah, so I'm not, like, adding a whole bunch of workload to it, I just think that we need to keep those priorities that these are priorities to the city, priorities to the community, and priorities to the council. 1017
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then, so that is the… for financial stability. And then, so for the, our last goal, the economic development, has been requested to continue the economic gardening program. We, as we stated earlier, we did do the one town hall, we did the women's business event.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: It was my understanding that we were looking to potentially do a couple more events this year, so the request is made to carry it over.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: All good?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay. Okay.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then public input, we've talked about this before, strong support for local businesses, limiting the chain, we talked about the formula business, so this kind of goes back to community vitality. Reuse of vacant commercial spaces, like Rite Aid and CVS. Traffic and parking impacts on downtown businesses, this again went back to,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the community survey, we were talking about Sustainable Transportation Grant, the PDA,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: regulating, streamlining our permitting processes.

We're continuing to look at our zoning code and what… how we can streamline certain permits.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So that it has a little bit easier in our community.

And then tourism promotion, health, and development, this is similar to the long-term financial sustainability,so those twoI'd like tomerge. 1026
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Are we all good? Okay, and then carryovers is, exploring additional community events andcontinuing to sponsornonprofits. That is now a part of our day-to-day values and our,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the waiver fees for special events and things like that. Identifying and evaluating strategies to support local businesses, looking at how we can increase more bike racks, looking at how we can have tables out on Main Street without Caltrans.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And, you know, potentially maybe looking at parklets not on city streets, and so these are just ways that we can start working with our businesses. I have a question.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: On number 7, where it says sponsoring nonprofit events, I mean, we've been waiving some fees, but we haven't… is that what you consider Agenda Item Number 1
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: You know, at the point where we can reinstitute that whole long list then. Yeah. So, when we waive fees and all that, they are… it is cosponsorship of that event. Okay. And then the one item that is, on hold is the develop… the economic development strategy until I can get a planning director, and associate planner on staff.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I have a question for everyone. I don't know if you all have noticed that several of the cities are doing State of the City. 1032
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: type of events, Cloverdale, Roanoke Park, I don't know, there's been a variety of them, they're all… it's all… 1033
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Over the last month or two, they've been doing those, where they've brought in someone, and…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: and… and doing an event, I just wondered if at some point, even… maybe this is for next year, but I just thought, wow, that would be cool if we… if we did something as well, and just to help people. 1035
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: to better understand. I think they brought in, like, what we had the other night was one of the economists, and then, they found businesses to sponsor, you know, the food or whatever, and basically they heard from the different city staff from the…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: As faras the state of the different departments and stuff, so… I'm just… just throwing out there, it seems as though quite… there are more cities than I've seen in the past doing that locally, so… 1037
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Sus…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, it's more about state of the City, not really, like, I don't know, yeah.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, I had started working on that in February, and with…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: time and priorities that go… went by the wayside, so we could add it as a,into our communityvitality, we can add ahigh professional staff to add a State of the Union address.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I mean, I feel like our… this is a long list, and we don't have somebody responsible for that department, so I… for me, it's a future idea. Yeah, I don't mean, like, right now, I was just throwing out there, so yeah. To be clear, I'm not… I know we're very limited, but I… it's just an interesting idea that I've seen happening, and… 1042
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I think maybe our residents would appreciate that at some point.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So that is… that is everything that we've gone through.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So we have 60, but some of those will be merged. 1046
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, and we had 68 last year, so, as a comparison.

But again, some of these are… are going to be duplicated, so, we will, based upon what you provided to us tonight,
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, just let me finish really quick, sorry. Based upon what we decide tonight, we will go have staff evaluate any budgetary impacts from these.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: And then we will bring those back. There are certain ones that'll come back as agenda items, and not as part as the budget process. And then we'll bring all of those back together as a whole for Council to reconsider before they dofinaladoption.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Okay, so of those 60, I would like to know at some… not necessarily they have to do it right now, but how many of those are carrying forward,and how manyarenew?
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I don't need to know that right now, but at some point, I would like to know that, yeah. We can do that, because some of those that are going to be merged from the public withcity staff, socould be a part ofthe carryover, because those were some common themes, so we'll get that information out. 1051
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: So, do I have Council direction to go ahead and move forward tohave staff look at the budgetary, and then bringthesecertain items back to the budget committee, and then the ones that were directed to come back as the agenda item, we'll bring those back as agenda items? Yes, you do, andthen we're going to do public comment still, right? Yes, sorry.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: I just wanted to make sure. Yes. Okay, so looks like we have Council Consensus, so this will be, the public comment period for… 1053
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: the goals that were just discussed, if you would like to make a public comment, please, I will come into chambers.

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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Seeing none, I will go out to Zoom if there's anyone on Zoom that would like to make a public comment. 1055
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Seeing none… Public comments closed. 1056
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: All right, so let's see. I just need to make sure we've covered everything. I think. We can adjourn. We can adjourn, yeah, so we're adjourning at 8.46.
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: Yay! Thank you so much, Mary, for your help. Yeah, that was a lot of work on your part to get all that organized, and… wow. Yeah, thank you, and that saved us a good bit from having a…
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Sebastopol Community Cultural Center: A whole lot of other people involved in it, yeah. 1059
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- April 14, 2026
PERFECT, THANK YOU. GIVE ME ONE SECOND. JUST ONE SECOND. SORRY GUYS. OKAY.

OKAY ALL RIGHT IF YOU ARE READY I AM READY. WE ARE READY GOOD EVENING

EVERYONE THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING, THIS IS FOR OUR SPECIAL MEETING FOR OUR WORKSHOP AND LET'S SEE I'M GOING TO WORK ON HERE. IF YOU WANT TO DO CALL TO ORDER.

ROLL CALL. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER
.

COUNCILMEMBER ZOLLMAN

PRESENT

VICE MAYOR MAURER HERE
MAYOR McLEWIS
HERE.

COUNCILMEMBER HINTON IS ON HER WAY.

LET'S DO THE SALUTE TO THE FLAG.

ALL RIGHT LET'S SEE. THIS NEXT PAGE WE HAVE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT WE DO EVERY TIME. GOING TO GO AHEAD AND READ THAT THE CITY ACKNOWLEDGES WE LIVE

AND WORK WITHIN THE UNSEEDED HOMELANDS, WE PAY RESPECTS TO THE PAST

PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THESE PEOPLE'S INCLUDING THE FEDERATED

INDIANS OF SO WE ARE HERE TO DISCUSS CITY COUNCIL GOALS AND PRIORITIES TONIGHT AND LET'S SEE. WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN WITH WHAT WE HAVE OVER HERE? IS THAT WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO START? OKAY.

SORRY WITH THE PROCESS FOR TONIGHT.

WHAT WE HAVE IS, WE DID THIS LAST YEAR AND CAME UP WITH A PROCESS SO I WANTED

US TO QUICKLY TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TONIGHT AND AGREE ON THE

PROCESS AGAIN SO WE ARE ALL CLEAR AND THAT WAY WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE. THE FIRST THING WE WILL HAVE MARY INTRODUCE THE ITEM

AND WE HAVE ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM COUNCILMEMBERS FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ADD ANYTHING TO CURRENT GOALS YOU HAVE IN THE DOCUMENTS SENT TO US. I

HAVE A FEW TO ADD AND WE WILL OPEN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND THEN AFTER

PUBLIC COMMENT WE WILL DISCUSS GOALS THAT ARE SUBMITTED BY THE COMMUNITY

AND COUNCIL AND HAVE FULL DISCUSSION AND AGREEMENT AND THEN WE WILL HAVE

PUBLIC COMMENT AFTER WE ARE FINISHED BUT GUARDING THE PROCESS FOR DIRECTION

OF STAFF ON THE GOAL LAST YEAR WE MOVED GOALS FORWARD WITH UNANIMOUS

SUPPORT SO TONIGHT WE NEED TO DECIDE IF WE SHOULD CONTINUE THAT APPROACH

ONLY GOES WITH UNANIMOUS SUPPORT MOVE FORWARD WE DID THAT LAST YEAR AND IT PREVENTED US FROM HAVING 100 GOALS AND THEN OR WE CAN CONSIDER

SUPPORTING GOALS TO HAVE THREE OR MORE COUNCILMEMBERS SUPPORT SO THAT'S ONE THING. AND THEN AFTER WE HAVE AFTER THE RULES HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AND

DISCUSSED I'M GOING TO ASK IF THERE IS CONSENT OR THE THREE OR MORE IF WE HAVE THREE OR MORE AND WE WILL GO FROM THERE. IF ANY MEMBER OBJECTS WILL TAKE THE ROLL CALL AND FIGURE OUT WHERE WE ARE AT. MARY IS GOING TO DO LIKE LAST

YEAR WHERE SHE WILL HAVE GOALS ON THE SCREEN AND AS WE GO ALONG SHE WILL CALL THEM CORRECT? NOT MISSTATING?

THAT'S CORRECT, THE SHEET YOU WILL SEE COME THE LAST ATTACHMENT IS ALL THE

GOALS SUBMITTED FROM THE COMMUNITY AS FAR AS THEMES AND FROM CITY

COUNCILMEMBERS WHO HAVE RECEIVED THEM ALREADY AND GOALS FROM CITY STAFF

THAT ARE NEW OR HAVE BEEN CARRYOVERS FROM LAST YEAR AND RECOMMENDATION

IS TO DO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR AS WE WENT THROUGH EACH ONE AND THEN KEPT

GOING THROUGH UNTIL WE GOT TO THE END AND AT THE VERY END THE DIRECTION

WOULD BE FOR STAFF TO REVIEW GOALS FOR BUDGETARY ITEMS AND BRING THOSE BACK TO THE BUDGET PROCESS AND TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FULL RENEWAL. SIMILAR TO HOW WE DID LAST YEAR.

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I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LIMIT IF WE DID BY THREES. IT SEEMS LIKE THAT BECAME

ONEROUS FOR CITY STAFF, SO WE COULD START JUST THINKING OUT LOUD WE COULD

START UNANIMOUS AND IF IT IS LIGHT OR WE FEEL WE CAN GO BACK OR HAVE THE TIME WE COULD GO DO THREE OF THEM?

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE UNANIMOUS VOTES PRIORITIZED AND THEN IF THERE'S TIME OR STAFF AVAILABILITY THAN OTHER VOTES COULD COME UP IN THE RANKS. PRIORITIZING UNANIMOUS VOTES TO ME IT IS SIGNIFICANT IF WE HAVE FIVE YES.

IF I RECALL CORRECTLY WE KEPT TRACK OF THE VOTES LAST YEAR AND WE WENT BACK TO THE FOUR. AM I REMEMBERING THAT TO THAT POINT?

WE WENT THROUGH AGAIN I CAN SHOW ON THE SCREEN ATTACHED AT THE END WE

WENT TO THE TABLE SHOWING EACH VOTE EACH COUNCIL MEMBER SUPPORT OR NOT SUPPORT AND RETALIATE UP HOW MANY HAD UNANIMOUS SUPPORT AT THE END. WE DID UNANIMOUS LAST YEAR.

THEY SAY THEY WOULD LIKE TO REVISIT IF WE ARE LIGHT ON GOALS. I WAS SAYING IF

WE KEEP TRACK OF THE NUMBER OF VOTES IF WE GO BACK TO THE ITEMS WITH FOUR

VOTES THAT WOULD BE THE BEST PROCESS TO GO TO THAT
FIRST UNANIMOUS.

THE GOALS ARE GETTING ACHIEVED THAN THE NEXT WOULD BE FOUR AND THEN THREE, TWO. THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION.

YES THAT SOUNDS LIKE LAST YEAR. THAT IS WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR BECAUSE WE SURVIVED HER THAT AND WE WANT TO SURVIVE THIS.

WE WANT TO BE EFFICIENT AND NOT BE HERE UNTIL 10:00 AT NIGHT. JUST TO REITERATE

WE WILL GO WITH UNANIMOUS AND IF FOR SOME REASON WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH

GOALS WE CAN REVISIT FOUR AFTER WE PUT TOGETHER WHICH I DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT
HAVE A QUESTION FOR MARY I THINK IT WAS THE SIXTH. ITEM HERE IN OUR PACKET YOU

HAVE THE GOALS LISTED IN THE VOTES ONE OF THOSE WAS FOR THE MURAL WHICH IS ALREADY BUDGETED SO I WAS NOT SURE WHY THAT WAS GETTING VOTED ON AGAIN.

COMING BACK AS A CARRYOVER. THEORETICALLY THE GOALS WERE ONE YEAR SO WE

SHOULD BRING IT BACK TO BE VOTED ON BUT IT IS A CARRYOVER SO AS WE GO THROUGH

THEN WE WILL SHOW WHICH ARE CARRYOVERS BUT THAT IS BUDGETED, NOT DONE THIS

YEAR WHICH IS WHY WE BROUGHT IT BACK SO IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.

RIGHT AND I'M TRYING TO LOOK AND REFRESH MYSELF. THE CARRYOVERS ARE THE ONES AT THE END RIGHT? CARRYOVER PRIORITIES THEY ARE NOT CATEGORIES THEY ARE

BOLDED IN THE ATTACHMENTS SO WE WILL PUT THEM ON THE SCREEN SO WE CAN SHOW WHICH SAYS TRANSPARENT. I WOULD RECOMMEND GOING LINE TO LINE SO IT IS EASIER AND MORE TRANSPARENT AND MORE EFFICIENT.

OKAY IF WE ARE IN AGREEMENT ON THAT THAT IS THE MAIN THING WE NEEDED.

APOLOGIES I AM TRYING TO MAKE SURE IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE. AFTER THAT MARY TAKE OVER AND START PRESENTING.

AS YOU RECEIVED 108 PAGES THESE ARE THE GOALS RECENTLY THE COUNCIL WHEN WE

TALK ABOUT BRINGING BACK IS A GOAL SESSION TO BRING THE CURRENT SIX GOALS WHICH WERE THE COMMUNITY VITALITY PUBLIC SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHPERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION LONG-TERM FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. LAST YEAR WE HAD ABOUT 68 GOALS. WE COMPLETED SIX, 41 ARE

EITHER COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR OR THOSE RECOMMENDED TO BE CARRIED OVER. THIS YEAR WE DID SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE DID COMMUNITY SURVEY SO WE SEND OUT A COMMUNITY SURVEY AND GOT 240 RESPONSES AND ATTACHED TO

THE STAFF REPORT ARE THE RESPONSES THERE WERE STRONG THEMES AND THE THEMES

WERE PRACTICAL NEAR-TERM OPTIONS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THEN THE ROADS

LOCAL BUSINESS TRAFFIC AND PARKING HOMELESSNESS AND SAFETY AND DOWNTOWN VITALITY THOSE WERE THE THEMES THAT CAME OF THE 236 THERE WERE SOME OTHER

MINOR ONES AND WE TOOK THE TOP THEMES AND BROUGHT THEM FOR CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW. WE PUT THOSE IN THE TABLE AT THE END AND INCORPORATED COMMUNITY COMMENTS. WE REVIEWED THE CURRENT PRIORITIES AND GOALS FROM THIS YEAR. SOME Agenda Item Number 1
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