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The first big project we took on was redoing the lobby. It's the focal point as guests enter the building, and it was looking slightly dated. So the first major project was updating the flooring to the checkered floors we have right now. We also took out all of the booths around the bar, updated the light fixtures, added bar lighting, and we also put a removable and damaged free wall in front of the mural at the back of the bar.

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that is also now a big focal point and then in addition we added 12 new

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cocktail tables in place of the booths lounge furniture the neon bill of

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sign that is slowly becoming we like to think iconic to the bar back there and

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really just tried to bring modern updates without getting overly modern in the

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The next big project we took on was upgrading the fireplace. Obviously after years of

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wear and tear it needed some love. So we repainted the entire fireplace, gave it a big deep

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clean. Next slide please. So it now is painted white and the inside of the inner portion of the

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fireplace is painted black and we've put lanterns with LED candles inside to kind of

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mimic a fire because it is not fire safe as of today and it acts as a great backdrop for all

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of our wedding clients either for behind their sweetheart table or head table. It's a big focal point

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as well. Next slide please. The next big project we took on was moving out to our ceremony garden we

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call it. We redid the gazebo taking off the lattice around the bottom, repainting it. We consulted

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with Mark, down at Plaza Pains in Heelsburg, to match the gazebo as close as we

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could to the original color. Again, without overmodernizing it, as it is also a

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really big focal point for our wedding clients in that space. Next slide please.

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The other big garden project we did was redoing the stairs. With the help of the

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city, the original stairs had pavers making them very uneven and slightly

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unsafe for our guests in the garden so we read to them to smooth them out. There's two different

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sets of stairs now that are much more functional and safe for guests to enjoy the garden.

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Next slide please. The other main project beyond just doing

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a fresh lighting in the bar was to also add fresh lights throughout both the big event spaces

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and update them as well. Next slide. We tried to lean in to the mid-century modern

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and look a village and declare to update it,

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making it look more modern without, again,

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over-modernizing it, and we do get a lot of feedback

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on this from our clients.

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In addition to adding new lobby furniture, cocktail tables,

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stools, we also made a Vela ADA compliant

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by adding in 26 signs throughout the building

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to properly mark everything.

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So it's safe for all of our guests across the board.

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We also, for our villa brides, created a beautiful getting ready space.

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we added a vanity area, a changing corner, air conditioning, a steamer,

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and lounge furniture.

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So brides and all of their most important people can enjoy the space

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and get ready on-site before moving on to their wedding next slide, please.

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I'm sure many people who have been to the villa over the years are very familiar with the

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spooky basement, so in an effort to also update the space, making it more warm and inviting,

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we redid the downstairs basement. Thank you. We repainted it to match the color scheme,

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going into the groom's den. We also now have the downstairs restrooms fully functional,

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so it also acts as getting ready restrooms for our couples while they're on

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property earlier in the day. Next slide please.

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history, we added in a groom's den, is what we call it in the back portion of our

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downstairs basement, focusing it around the safe. We did take the lock off of the

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safe so it now acts as a fun bar there's a coat rack in there and then we tried to kind of keep

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the aesthetics similar a little bit more of a speak easy look in that space so we now have separate

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areas for both our brides and grooms to get ready on site. Next slide please. Our most recent project

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which we actually just completed this last week was repainting the entire front of the building due

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years of wear and tear and sun damage. It was looking a bit tattered. So again with the consulting

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of Mark Plaza paint, he helped us perfectly color match the paint around Villa. So just the front

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of the building right now is entirely freshly painted.

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Next slide please. And the last kind of major

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update we did was redoing the Villa Shanta Claire website. We replaced all of the photos with new

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photos. We did a staged photoshoot with a professional photographer. We have a live calendar on

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the website that I update frequently with available event dates, so clients of all sorts can go and

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confirm what dates are available when looking to book. We also have pages dedicated specifically to

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weddings, as well as special events, including universities, birthdays, fundraisers, any sort of private

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parties, and there are all sample layouts on there, frequent

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last questions, essentially as much information as we can provide to the community.

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to take us back to here to date.

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Just a couple other pieces here.

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One, the bill has now passed two health inspections with no excuses.

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And that was really important and it was not in shape to do that, so the place is completely

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up to standard for anything you want to do from a mail standpoint.

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Data systems have been updated and also there's sound monitoring systems around the property

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now that we all get remote so we can control the sound, again, to prevent any neighbor issues.

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So here's the kind of summary of what's going on.

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The first, speaking from our perspective, 2023 was just 2023, it was too late to do anything.

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2024 and early, sorry, 2023 and early 2024 were a bit tough for us. A lot of business went away

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when we readjusted who was coming to the bill and how things were being done. The whole repositioning,

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it kind of dropped revenue quite a bit. Not for community events, but for the paying people who

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coming in from other areas. Now we're experiencing a situation where the

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overall market, I don't know if you guys are seeing it elsewhere, the overall

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markets down tremendously. Tourism is down in certain segments. The spend is

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down. People are drinking less. There's substitutes. There's a massive oversupply

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and increased supply in both permitted and especially non-permitted

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eventsites. About 50% of the eventsites in Sonoma County that hold events aren't

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So, again, it's difficult to compete against that, but that's the reality of where we are today in our community.

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So, what we realized we needed to do was make sure that the villa was just a no excuses property.

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When you came and saw it, you didn't have to say, I'll do it because I have to or I can afford it.

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You did it because you wanted to be there.

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And that's what's happening now, people are looking at it and they're going, we like this.

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They love the bar. They like it's clean.

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They like that there's great vendor options for themselves. So that's been done. The city's been invaluable helping us do a lot of things that just weren't working lighting wasn't working air conditioning systems were marginally functional.

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So the city's done a ton also to make again no excuses the place works. It looks nice now.

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Again, have anyone been up there recently, or that's hopefully you feel the same way,

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especially after the recent front painting, it's a nice property, it's an old property,

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but it's a nice property.

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The other piece was we redesigned the bar packages because more and more people are they're

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drinking less, they want different bar options, so that's been done, we still practice full

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responsible hospitality.

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And then the final piece was, well, inflation has killed the event business in Sonoma County

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with increased labor costs and increased overall pricing, we've kept the price virtually the same.

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And that means that there's more and more people shopping, realizing they're priced out of

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this market. And they're finding the villa exists and they're saying, whoa, I can still have a

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really nice event in Hillsburg. I don't have to, again, make excuses and I don't break the bank.

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So we're actually finding pre-COVID, 80% of our clients came from outside of California.

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Host COVID, 80% of our clients are coming from inside of California.

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And the California tourism council has similar issues.

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There's just been a major change in who's coming to the Bay Area and who's coming to California.

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We're now finding where the villa used to be almost exclusively a Sonoma County or a Heelsburg site.

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We're now seeing people from Silicon Valley and San Francisco finding out about it.

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And after they're touring all the facilities down there at those prices, they're coming

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back saying, wow, I still can get married.

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I just have to go 60 miles or 80 miles north.

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So we're happy with the results.

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It's just starting to work now.

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And we're looking forward to continuing.

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And then we're happy to answer any questions you possibly might have.

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Hello, so as part of the agreement that we have with the City of Hillsburg, we are supposed to offer a certain amount of events for the City of Hillsburg, for the school district, for the American Legion together, there's 13 free events that we offer a year.

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We are doing events like in 2024 for the Heelsburg Fire Department.

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We did a dinner for them.

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We do the City of Heelsburg employee luncheon and the annual senior dinner.

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We are doing the senior dinner and other senior events for the high school and then the

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American Legion does their annual crab feed.

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And then in addition to that, we do 20% discounts to all of the residents of

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Heelsburg, which can be a lot. We do a lot of, or a few weddings for them. And then we do like a Wilbur Ellis trade show for them.

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And then on top of that, we do a big discount, 50% to 70% for nonprofits in Hillsburg.

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And we kind of open that up to a few other areas up here in the area as well, but we have

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done events for community child care resource center, for the Boys and Girls Club, co-wanis,

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pancake breakfast, the list is long.

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So, all together, I would say, in 2024, there was approximately about $46,000 in savings that we've provided towards the community.

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In 2025, we did similar events, a lot more in the area of the nonprofits.

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We doubled the amount of savings for all of these people and did about $72,000 in savings for all of these groups.

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For 2026, we have about $26, $27,000 so far towards events.

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And we're, you know, we want to do more, we want to do more for the city of Hillsburg because they have five events that they're allowed to use.

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We don't use all of them just because maybe dates aren't available, but, you know, come to us early, we want to do as much as we can for the community.

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Same thing for the school district, they have more available to them.

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We've started to combine a little bit, like for the American Legion, they're helping the

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Kuwanis Club, so they allow them to use one of their free events rather than a discounted

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event.

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So basically we just want to say that we encourage all of the nonprofits and just other community

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people to come and talk to us and we want to help and we want to see what we can do to get

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more involved.

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gladly provide services, and as far as these buckets go, we're completely flexible.

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If the five runs out, we're happy to move it around.

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There's no firm lines like that.

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We work with Mark very closely, and if he needs something, we'll do whatever's needed.

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But the biggest piece that this says is, I don't know how we can do it, but we could maybe

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do it together to try to get ourselves to get the community to use the property, because

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there's effectively free sight fees and free events that aren't being taken advantage of.

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We're glad to provide them.

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The bill was also nominated for the first time and I think quite a few years as the best

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wedding venue category in Heelsburg.

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We're going to find out on the ninth.

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So stay tuned.

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Hopefully it will win.

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And that will again help the marketing, help the perception we can use it for paper click advertising

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to try to drive more awareness of the property.

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And that's something we've not been able to do yet.

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But this could help a lot.

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And final slide please. Again, the property works. We're working with Simone Wilson trying to do a lot of local advertising right now.

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There's venue tour folders for you guys to take a look at if you'd like afterwards.

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We did memories of the villa. Everyone had a problem there. Everyone went to a dance there, but they did it 20 years ago or 15 years ago. And to the extent we can work together to try to get some visibility to let the community know that this is a really viable property. It's clean, safe, affordable, and nice. We would like that because it only builds the business for the community and it builds the reputation and the things we need to help build our part of the business.

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That's the goal we'd like and any ideas anyone here has at any time in the future we'd

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love to work with people on that and the last thing is working with Mark and his team has

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just been incredibly easy, very cooperative and we look forward to many years of doing that

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together with everyone and the final slide is the chamber is working with us and this Friday

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kind of sounds funny for 115 year old property but there's an open house and a ribbon cutting

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to try to get some visibility in the community for the property to get people to start to take advantage of what this is and to use it.

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And one of the things we're hoping to get some attention is we're going to be serving the type of alcohol that was served in 1910.

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So I don't know if you guys are allowed to do that four or five o'clock, but you're all more than welcome.

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And we hope you come and take a look at it, but it starts at 11 o'clock in the morning.

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Any questions we can possibly answer for anyone?

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Thank you so much for that presentation.

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Mark, did you have more to say before we go to questions?

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But thank you, we do have questions, I'm sure.

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I'll be very quick.

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Next slide, please.

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So what's next?

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We're continuing to work with milestone, great relationship.

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They're making improvements, they're investing their own dollars.

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The city's investing money as well to continue to take care of it.

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Continuing to support those local organizations.

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Community comes together and they make memories.

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and thanks to the support of Senator McGuire, the state assembly bill 105 this year contained $1.5 million to assist the city in improving the bill and modernizing it, taking care of it.

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So, that's been signed by the governor, we still have to learn about the allocation plan, how that money's going to be passed to the city.

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We do know that one of the expectations is that there'll be improvements to the kitchen.

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That was kind of where this started from at the senior appreciation dinner and

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we'll be following up with city council in the future about how that process moves

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forward in terms of funding and what those potential projects are that could be

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considered for the villa. So we're excited about the future.

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We're excited about the past and we appreciate the partnership with milestone

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events groups. So thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you so much and thank you Milestone for all the work you guys have been doing.

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It looks beautiful and really impressed. Does council have questions? Council member Haley?

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which can get really when it's packed when we're doing the senior dinner, any kind of speeches or you're

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doing an auction, it's just really loud, is there anything that can be done to improve

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the acoustics?

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The answer is yes, we're meeting with Mark and his team tomorrow at 10.30 in the morning,

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and we have our list, and sound is one of them, it kills us.

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It's a system probably from the 1970s, and the speakers are whole, where they're placed

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is different than where we might want them. The board is just, again, there's too many

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dials and not enough knowledge on how to operate it. So one of the things we're going to be

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doing is adding this sound is a critical component to addressing. We know that. We just need

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some help and some money to help us do it. Anything else we can answer? Any other questions?

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Council Member Kelly? Yeah, I just wanted to echo those sentiments. I think when I do talk to folks

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about venue selection for whether it's fundraiser or other community events, the sound and sound

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deadening. Or even if it's not just for announcements, it's just how loud it gets with the echo. It's

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really a tricky space to kind of control sound and do some sound deadening. So I would love to see

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those improvements happen. And then one of the other things I was curious about, we've had a number

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of food entrepreneurs and at one point maybe was during COVID or before we had a young woman

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who was running a cheesecake business leasing kitchen space there and selling her cheesecake out of

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that space and and one of the barriers to using the space was that there wasn't there wasn't a walk-in

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there is a large refrigeration space so I'm curious if that I know probably Monday through Friday from

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6 a.m. to 4 p.m. is the least used time at the villa, but it would be a time that food business owners would be interested in potentially using or leasing that space. Is that something that you guys would be at all interested in or off, you know, we've done it.

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Jamie's actually done it. We've had that cheesecake company work at the villa, but again, everyone has to bring ice chest in.

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You're exactly correct. That's another issue with Jamie's working on now is a plot of our recommended improvements to the kitchen.

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We're going to share it with the city and then the city can make you know their adjustments and we can go out to bid with all this to correct it.

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But we have inadequate refrigeration.

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We have inadequate sound and we totally agree.

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Okay. Great. I think I'm just knowing what some of the other opportunities to utilize.

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the facility might be for community benefit and what we've heard from residents who are starting off

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their small businesses. They're not ready to yet, you know, open a restaurant, but they would love to

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look for commercial kitchen space to lease. And so because that is such a great community asset and

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maybe isn't being used during those hours, that could be another potential source of revenue for you

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all if we were able to do those upgrades. So we're all good with it. Thank you. Again, thank you again

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for working. We have more council member Edwards. Not so much a question but from one of the

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caterers who started their catering career develop back in 1993 using that

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kitchen and seeing the improvements and where you've come and you know quite

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frankly it was a great kitchen to work in. It was one of the better

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kitchens that were available for caterers back then at the time to utilize and

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rent out and so it's nice to see you're doing it's nice to see that you are

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looking for that because there's not a lot of rental kitchens in the county that

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are available and it's really helpful to get people in our community who want

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want to start a business, you know, one of the things about catering is that most people

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start illegal because they don't have the capital to build out and as they build their

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business, then they expand. So I think that having that opportunity for them to expand

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legally and start out would be great. So thank you for all you're doing and really appreciate

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it.

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No, thank you.

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First of all, you're here.

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Thanks. I'm just thinking about when I first met you, I was on the Parks Commission and

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It was a big change for the place, and obviously was concerned to see what would happen, and I just want to share that these improvements really surpassed my expectation to them really pleased to see that this partnership has been so successful.

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So thank you for that, and the future looks really bright as well, so that's great.

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And, you know, you probably remember four months of my mind with making sure that it remained accessible and affordable to our local nonprofits and community users, and I'm really pleased to see that that's been a central focus.

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So, that's really important to me and a lot of people here.

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Of course, as you know, there's a lot of nostalgia and a lot of love for that place, so it's great to see that you've given that attention.

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So, thank you.

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So I just have one question, one major change that's happened up there is the opening of

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the Fitch Mountain Preserve, and I just wanted to get your feedback in terms of positives

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and negatives, negatives, possibly parking, pressure, or something like that, but I haven't

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seen it myself, but yeah, so just let me know if there's been any talk about that as you

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you know, improving the property in terms of its marketability or anything like that or

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I don't know.

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That hasn't had any impact, in fact, we haven't even thought about that, it might be

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worth thinking about, we just haven't thought about how to tie in the, if there's enough volume

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of people using that, ready to have a commissary or action like that, we just haven't thought

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of it.

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But we will.

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Again, thank you and you guys also dramatically have exceeded our expectations and working

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initially with Jeff and Mark, you know, we hope for the best and it was exceeded. So thank you.

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Thank you. It's really gratifying to see the relationship has gone so well. I know it's just

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been three years and Villa was kind of in a mess, right? So thank you for all your efforts and

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what you're doing and what you're going to continue to do. And I hope that we can, we'll get some

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creative ideas about how to get business to the villa because it helps us to not not just the free

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events, right? So yeah. Anything you want to collaborate on, we're happy to meet. Yeah, thank you.

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So moving on, we have a Zero Waste Sonoma presentation, Leslie Lukax, Executive Director,

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Zero Waste Sonoma. Welcome Leslie. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council. I'm going to be giving

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a presentation on what zero-way snowman has been up to for the past year. So that has been

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presentation mode. I will share with you next. Zero-way snowman is a joint powers authority,

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and so we represent all 10 jurisdictions here in Snowman County. And we were founded in 1992

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to really make sure all of our member jurisdictions are in compliance with various regulation coming

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down from the state on how to divert materials from landfill. Our primary responsibility is

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that compliance and reporting to the state, as well as education outreach, zero waste programming,

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household hazardous waste material management, and our organics program management. Next,

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our mission is to empower personal action in waste reduction and materials management by implementing

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practical solutions to protect our natural resources next.

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And one of our biggest tools for doing that is our website.

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We receive close to 150,000 reaches on our website.

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1,500 Heelsburg residents have actually used our website in that last year.

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And it's one of our biggest function is people can type in, where do I recycle this?

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Or how do I compost this? And our website tells you how to do that.

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Next, we also are engaged in the community and in 2024 did 171 outreach events, 12 of

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those happening here in Healtzburg, an outreach event may be household hazardous waste

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collection, mattress collection, e-waste collection events in the community.

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Next, and we also produced the Zero Waste Guide that is basically a print version of our

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website on how to recycle and compost and properly dispose of various materials, and that

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guide is in both English and Spanish next.

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And speaking of doing outreach in Spanish, we do a lot of our outreach community either

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in person.

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In Spanish, we are on three different Spanish radio stations, and we have direct business

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to Spanish speaking or direct outreach to Spanish speaking businesses as well.

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Next. The big move for us is we can't recycle ourselves to zero waste. We know that. We really

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have to work upstream and reduce in reuse. So we've been investing a lot in what we call

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reuse and repair fairs. We just signed a agreement that we're going to be hosting in a repair

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fair in every single jurisdiction this next year. And it's going to be coming to Heelsburg

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in January 24th, and what a repair fair is is you can bring products like lamps and we have fixers there who will fix it for free.

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We also do knife sharpening, we've done closed swaps where people were bringing clothes and then people can go shop for free.

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So it's really a way to give products a second life and just make it free event to the community next.

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We also operate on the household hazardous waste facility and so what that is is as consumers

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we bring a lot of toxic products, products under your sink, maybe products for your pool

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and if there's some left over what do you do with that.

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We are the agency that collects that and we dispose of it properly.

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We're open free to the residents Thursday through Saturday and we also do a collection event

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and each jurisdiction every single week.

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We rotate it throughout the community.

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We also have a rover, if there's like maybe

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an elderly person can't, doesn't have the means

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to actually drive their household toxic products to us.

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We will come to your house and pick it up.

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We also have a reuse program

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because sometimes we receive toxins

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that may be half full or more, but they're still in good shape.

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So we have a whole reuse where you can pick up

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these materials for free.

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and then we blend paints that we received. So we kind of blend it to an off-white-ish,

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a peach-ish, you know, purple-ish, and a green-ish color. And that paint is free to the community,

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and it's also a great paint for the... I can't think of the right word, but it's just free paint

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that you can use in your community. And next, for a great graffiti statement. I mentioned the EWACE

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collection events. We did 14 throughout the community in 10 free mattress collection events

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because we all know we don't want mattresses to be on the side of the roads. We're all sick of

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seeing that type of debris so we try to offer that for free to the community. Next, we did something

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that was state of the art that had never happened in the state of California. Solar panels are banned

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from the landfill, but there's really no plan on how to manage them. They just tell us you can't put

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in Atlanta Phil so we applied for a grant and we were able to host 12 free events throughout the

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community to collect residential solar panels and we received over a thousand panels through that

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grant that were just sitting in people's backyards they didn't know how to manage these solar panels.

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We also tested them to see if we can...

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Reuse, so we just gave them to habitat for Humanity Restore as well as a couple of farms so that it could do on farm solar projects and a high school who used it for their engineering program. Next. We did invest and purchased four acres to construct a new household houses waste facility. This is located right off the one-on-one freeway in Shiloh. We just finished the 100% design of the facility this last month. And we hope to be in construction maybe the next

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next year after we go through the permitting process.

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We also plan to, in the future, do harder recycle products at the facility that includes

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solar panels.

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Now that we have more information on how to manage it, mattresses, carpets, possibly container

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recycling.

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Next, one of the biggest laws that we've been focusing on is SB 1383.

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It's a very prescriptive law that requires organics from being diverted from the landfill.

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your city is in compliance of all those regulations, we did have counter cycle come down and take a look at all of our jurisdictions and so we did pass in terms of meeting all these standards next and we work closely with your haulers.

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We also make sure that your businesses are in compliance and do citations if they're not, but we really try and make it something that it's voluntary that they comply with next.

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Next, one of the greatest things that we did is we received four different grants totaling

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over $3 million on an edible food diversion.

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This was an edible food that was making its way to the landfill, but now we are feeding,

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we've coordinated to feed people in need and next slide.

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To, for one of the grants, actually, we rescued over 330,000 pounds of food that it would

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actually make it go to the landfill and now feed hungry people next.

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We have many compost hubs, one actually here in Healtzburg, over at Badger Park and

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that is free compost that we take back and we give it to the community and it's next

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to the community garden if anybody wants to pick up free compost next.

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And anybody who purchases 20 cubic yards or compost or more, we actually give them a 10%

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rebate. So we oversee the green bin at your home. It gets exported out of the county to be turned

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into compost and we just want to make sure that that compost is being purchased and putting back

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on the soil where it's a great soil amendment. Next slide. In speaking of that, I mentioned that

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the organics is going out of county. We are actually working with the county to bring a compost

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facility back in town. It's right now being cited at the airport where that red

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square is. We finished the 30 percent design. It's going through the permitting process right now

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and it'll process about 65,000 tons of organic material a year. We manage over 100,000 tons

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so this will take care of a big portion of that organic material and we'll manage it locally and

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we could put it put it back out to our ad community and just keep this in county system.

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Next, and one of the last things we did is a model construction

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or model construction and demolition recycling ordinance.

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We do know that a significant number of C&D material

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does make its way to the landfill.

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we're working with the jurisdictions to adopt this model

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and just really highlight making sure

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that this material is diverted from the landfill.

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Next, and I'm going to close on zero waste week.

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So we do a lot of education on zero waste, but zero waste week is next week.

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And this is in reverse in that we actually work with the community that they host their own zero waste events.

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And so this could be tours of the landfill, tours of the compost facility, working with the libraries to do education on zero waste.

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And we have over 50 events scheduled, actually over 50 community partners now.

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And so it's this big week where we just really concentrate on promoting zero waste.

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There's one event happening in Healdsburg, and that's on the 16th.

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That's put on by Farmed of Pantry at the Mason Street Community Garden, and they're going

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to bring all the tools to decorate free, reusable totes, and then they're going to fill up

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that tote with free produce.

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And that's it.

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Thank you. Thank you for that. It's amazing what you guys do. And you have a limited staff, too, as I recall, right?

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Yes. So, thank you for that. Do you have questions? Council member Norton?

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Yeah, I wanted to find out on the e-recycling. I realized that having a cell phone for many years,

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I have a drawer full of dead cell phones. And I have been trying to go through and find out how to

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So when somebody brings the e-waste, what happens with that?

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Does someone need to be worried about the data on a computer or on a phone to bring in?

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That's kept me from bringing it in.

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No, we and the company that we contract with to manage the e-waste clears all of the data on the devices.

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That's part of the agreement that they need to make sure that it's cleared.

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And that's actually very serious to us that that happens because people don't want information.

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Yeah, you know, you you end up collecting these things because you don't want to use the data

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So I really appreciate that and I had a question on plastic bags

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The ones I was kind of disappointed when I had a bunch of them I was ready to go to the recycling at the local

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waste

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Facility and they said no it goes in the trash

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Is Safeway grocery store the only place to take those for recycling?

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There's other places that take film plastic, like I know Home Depot takes it on our website.

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If you type in what to do with film plastic, it'll tell you all the locations in

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snow and candy that takes film plastic.

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But yes, that's a problematic product to the recycling system because the

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recycling, the material covers the facility that actually separates the material out.

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Just the film plastic gets stuck in all the rotators and it's just really problematic.

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All right, thank you.

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questions? No? Yes, no. Well, thank you again, Leslie. We really appreciate that update. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. And one thing I do think big, John's does recycling of plastic bags. Yeah, okay.

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Okay, so next step, city manager. City manager K. Thank you, Mayor. I have a couple of market

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calendar updates and then I wanted to provide a little bit more information about one project in

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In particular, first off, fire department already mentioned, but it was a while ago, so I'll

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just reiterate the open house, fire department open house, this coming Saturday, a great

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chance to interact with the fire department, also a great chance for people who have been

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curious to see more of the new station up there.

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So we hope to see a lot of folks out there.

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That's this coming Saturday, the 11th.

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The next day is the Hillsburg Crush put on by the Boys and Girls Club on the Plaza, not

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normally mention non-city events here but that's noteworthy first off because we I think we have a

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great partnership with the Boys and Girls Club we're really excited about the renovation that

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they're preparing for for their facility here in town and also the council may recall when you

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approved the events calendar or this year 2025 just about a year ago we almost completely

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implemented a policy that would only have city-sponsored events on the

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pausa and not those that close off the pausa and we made one exception

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recognizing that the fully family community pavilion might not be ready

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this coming weekend and could impact the crush to allow the crush an additional

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year there on the pausa that proved pressure because we're getting there with

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the pavilion but when I walked by this morning not quite there so that event

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we'll continue on the pause of this year, but just as a reminder that is a practice that we're

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phasing in, I guess I'd say, and you will see next month and November the events calendar

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for the upcoming year, so there'll be a chance to talk through that a little bit further, but the event

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is there this coming year, and we hope it's a good one.

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One other event to note is the following weekend,

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the Halloween. This is a city sponsored event prepared and I think the 18th always fun to see the

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bets in their costumes great celebrity judges will be keeping things honest out there so always a

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fun event and I know the mayor will be the MC I believe once again this year so I look forward to

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seeing everybody out at that also and then of course I won't give you the whole holiday event to

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run down just yet, but it's coming.

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So we'll have those dates to you shortly.

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So I wanted to talk a little bit more about

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just one project in particular.

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We shared with the council last week

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that I wanted to share publicly

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that the Sajil Hills Affordable Housing Project

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has received state low-income housing tax credit funding

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for their phase two.

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And that was in the amount of $22.5 million last week.

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We'll take that.

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Another really good example of how we leverage this council put money, but surely not $22 million into that project recently and it's another really great example of leveraging our investments and piecing these projects together.

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Phase two is an additional 41 affordable units and a managers unit serving between 30 and 60% of area meeting income.

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instruction is looking to begin next year probably about April once we get

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through the rainy season and can start grading so that will be the second half

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of this project phase one not that long ago we were at a groundbreaking for is

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48 units so combined these two are just about 90 units of affordable housing

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there'll be a community building there'll be some trails I don't know some of

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you live right up there in the area but for the rest of us I actually went up

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this afternoon to take a look and it is really progressing.

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There are buildings framed out up there.

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So I encourage you all to a little,

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with the dead end, it's a little perilous right now

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to drive around, but it's worth it.

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The project is just making really, really good progress.

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So you can only imagine how far along the buildings for phase

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one will be once we're doing a groundbreaking next spring

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for the second phase, but I just wanted to share that.

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I know that's for some of us that's kind of tucked away

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and you have to make a point going up there.

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But 90 units of affordable housing is a big deal.

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Obviously, this is, we believe,

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in total a $60 million investment in affordable housing,

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which we believe to be the biggest investment

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in affordable housing in the city's history.

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So it's worth the drive up there,

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and I just wanted to congratulate everybody involved

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in sticking with it and pursuing funding.

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So we've got two, both phases fully funded and ready

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to move and phase one is really coming along quickly.

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So great news, that's all I have.

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I am happy to take any questions.

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Thank you for that.

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Does anybody have questions for, yes?

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Ariel.

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Wonderful, exciting news about phase two being funded.

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And I had a question you, you know,

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for your comments about drive up there and check it out.

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So I was very happy to be hiking up there this weekend.

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And the roads are still closed, even though the road

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ways complete, and I had gotten that question from a couple residents at Enzo, and otherwise,

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when the road will be opened again. So, is it possible that the construction can continue on

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the sites there, but that the roadway is actually open for people to be able to use the roadway,

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whether it's for pedestrian or automobile or both? Because I imagine that construction is going to

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be there for a while. Yeah, I may call on a friend on this, but what I will say is my understanding is

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It's not the construction that's keeping the road closed so much as it's the completion of critical infrastructure related to the trail and lighting that would make it safe to traverse.

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So it's not waiting on the construction of the affordable housing per save. It's some of those associated pieces of infrastructure.

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At this point, I'm not sure if those will be ready in advance of finishing phase two. I hope so.

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So we're trying to accelerate that.

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You might recall there's also a little bit of a complicated shared responsibility on

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the trail because some of the funding for phase one included trail construction.

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So we're working through that, but it's getting some of the additional infrastructure in

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there lighting in pedestrian, which has been the trigger for opening the road.

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So hopefully it will be, it's certainly something I'm anxious in trying to push.

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Hopefully it will be well in advance of finishing the housing, but it's not necessarily just

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keeping people away because there's construction.

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I will say the construction is a little messy right now,

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so it's a little hard to pass through, as you saw.

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Understood.

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I guess I will just echo the community concerns

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that I've heard from all of the new people living

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on the north end of town that they were wondering

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when they can use that place for walking around.

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And I know it gets them, it's on us on the infrastructure side

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for lighting and sidewalks, so then hopefully we can talk

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about where that gets phased in, and then with the park improvement, the park trailhead

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improvements, where does that fit into the timeline of now that the housing is moving forward?

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You mean, you mean the ridge, the Hildberg Ridge? Yes.

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That is a piece of our design package for phase one of Summer Salt Park.

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It is, I think, was tentatively as a bit alternate. It's one of those pieces that we're going to have

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to see how the costs come in and how much a phase one we can do, but it is going through a design

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process right now. So ideally we'll be adding additional, one of these days we will, but ideally

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as part of phase one of the park, we'll be able to add that, but it's in part going to be a funding

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question when we see how everything comes back in phase one and what those costs are. Got it. And then

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for phase three of the housing that we didn't talk about today, is there any, did that's the first sale

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units. Anything happening with that? Not that I have, I'm checking with Steven and we do

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not have an update for you on that. And those that's like another was the whole thing 118 units

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as planned or 108. I remember they're being 8 and they're sorry Steven. 110. So we are at 90 units

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of 110. Okay, well that's a lot. A few more to go.

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Anyone else? Questions? No? Okay, thank you, Jeff. So we'll move on to public comment on items on the consent calendar and non-agenda items. This time, set aside, you receive comments from the public regarding matters of general interest, not on the agenda, but related to city council business pursuant to the Brown Act, however, the city council cannot consider any issues or take action on any requests during this comment period. We have anyone who would like to make a public comment at this time.

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If you would come to the podium, I'm not seeing anybody okay, so we'll close the public comment section.

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I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar.

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So moved.

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Second.

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We have a roll call vote on that please.

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Council member Edwards.

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Yes.

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Council member Hagley.

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Yes.

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Council member Kelly.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Herod.

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Yes.

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Mayor Mitchell.

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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And so we do not have any public hearings tonight, old business.

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We have the L&M Village Quarterly Update, Housing Director Steven Sotomayor, and

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reach for home director Mara Ritzlike.

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I think we'll see beyond who's who.

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This will be joining us on Zoom.

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Okay, great.

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Thank you.

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Give her a chance to come up here, but Steven Sotomayor, Housing Director, and

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this is the L&M Quarterly Update for the quarter one, 2025.

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I'm going to jump to the next slide.

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There we go.

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And I'd like to welcome Margaret Slyke,

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Executive Director of Reach for Home.

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Hi, thank you so much.

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Thank you, Mayor Mitchell and City Council members

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for having this update tonight.

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As you can see, this is an overview

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of what we're going to cover.

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And you can go ahead and move to the next slide.

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So I'm just going to start out by saying

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because of the success of the LNM

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And thanks to the encampment resolution grant through the state and through also a partnership with Sonoma County.

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We are now at 47 units of interim housing in Northern Sonoma County or through Northern for Northern Sonoma County residents.

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And so there's the 22 units at the LNM, which you're going to hear an update about.

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And then the rest of the units we're calling our interim housing scattered sites.

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And so I just wanted to point that out that because of the model at the LNM and because it's working so well, and because of the investment, the city of Hillsburg and Sonoma County and private donors have made we are able to have been able to expand that.

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The other program outcome is that in 2024, we launched the Keep People House Tomeless Prevention Program and just a very brief update on that.

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Over the last year since launching, we have spent over $61,000 and we're the Northern Sonoma County Hub for that program.

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And we were able to help 60 individuals in 23 households in northern Sonoma County with a couple more that just got approved between when I submitted this and today and we're starting our second year of that pilot program and that program is being administered by

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costs and then there are hubs across the county and Reach for Home is the northern Sonoma County hub.

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It helps people who are about to lose their housing state in their housing and it includes case

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management as well as direct funding for rent and utilities and those sorts of things.

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The point in time count, I'm going to actually talk a lot about on the next slide.

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And then as far staffing updates go, Reach for Home is currently fully staffed.

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We don't really have any current staffing updates.

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We did recently add a support of services assistant to help case managers with appointments

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and different things like that so that they have more time to spend with the participants.

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This was seed money we received through a private donor, but it does also help the LNM and our

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keep people housed program. The other thing I'll point out on this slide is Russian river keepers are

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continuing, we have money set aside for them until the end of June next year to continue

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to help us keep the river clean and free of unauthorized access. They did install no

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trust pass signs over the last few months that we purchased and they installed and they were

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just recognized at our annual fundraiser for the synergy that they have had with Reach for Home

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through the Encampment Resolution Funding and Housing over 40 people and they removed over 200,000 pounds of trash off of the river and they continue to do so and will continue to do so.

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Definitely through the end of next year but we're actually looking at expanding our partnership and making it easier to work together.

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or doing applications to help with

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encounters that might pop up and clearing areas

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that are within the river shed

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or that would flow to the river,

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which is pretty much anywhere in Hillsburg, really.

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So we're looking at expanding that.

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Next slide.

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All right, so the point in time count,

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this is a single day count that happens every January.

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It is required that the county do it every two years

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because of the HUD funding they receive. But we do it every year in the county.

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So it's something that I think has happened every year except for maybe one during COVID for several years.

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And so it's just a single snapshot of one day.

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However, what makes this year different and unique is that we this year have our by-names list

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that has been going on for over three years where we have everyone we know of

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In Northern Sonoma County on a list, we know who they are by their name, what needs they have, and where they're located, that sort of thing, and we were able to take that list this year and match it up against the point and time count to see what the variance might be, and that variance was within two or three people.

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So we know that on a daily basis, we can tell how many people are in northern Sonoma County,

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including Kieldsburg, who are unsheltered. And we know what they need, where they're

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out in the process, and where they are as far as vulnerability and those sorts of things.

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So that was really a big accomplishment, because a lot of times the point in time count is used

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as a way to measure things, which is fine.

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It's a good checks and balances,

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but we now have information on almost a daily basis

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that's just as accurate, if not more accurate.

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So the by-names list will start to be more

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of what we talk about and the point and time count

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is something that will help verify that,

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which I think is a really good place to be.

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If you look at this data, what it's going to show you

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is that the LNM Village and the interim housing programs are working.

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Those numbers are increasing while the unsheltered population is decreasing.

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And so that means that more people are going into interim housing because of that expansion I was talking about.

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And fewer people are on the streets, literally homeless.

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You can see the numbers here.

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Homeless and Healdsburg decreased from 50 to 29 individuals of the 29 individuals, 17 were sheltered at the LNM Village.

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And then, like I said, homelessness in northern Sonoma County decreased from 152 to 91 individuals.

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But what that equated to was an over, let me see here.

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00:52:59,830 --> 00:53:11,050
I had it. It was an over 58% reduction in homelessness and 41% overall if you include the sheltered individuals.

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So this is a huge accomplishment to the City of Hillsburg, the Sonoma County, and everybody who

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has played a role in making this a priority within the city. Those are big numbers and they don't

630
00:53:27,610 --> 00:53:33,310
often and we have to keep the pedal on the gas. So I'm going to turn it over to Stephen for the next

631
00:53:33,310 --> 00:53:39,670
slide and then I'll come back in in a minute. Sure and just to add to this, you know, this reduction

632
00:53:39,670 --> 00:53:45,690
if you look year over year, we've seen a significant reduction starting with the ONM village.

633
00:53:46,130 --> 00:53:52,930
If we go back in time and look, you see that it stays pretty static. What really is kind of adding to

634
00:53:52,930 --> 00:53:57,990
this here is that the Olinem Village operations have provided a place actually to place people.

635
00:53:58,850 --> 00:54:02,970
And then you combine that with the Encamat Resolution funding, which gave reach for home

636
00:54:02,970 --> 00:54:08,190
additional funding to focus on the Russian River area, also the cleanup and the ability

637
00:54:08,190 --> 00:54:13,410
to expand outside of the city limits and to Cloverdale and Windsor, be able to open up

638
00:54:13,410 --> 00:54:19,190
the cafeteria house and other programs that added additional support, including our victory

639
00:54:19,190 --> 00:54:24,510
three studios and apartments, which offer 11 units that can also be used for individuals

640
00:54:24,510 --> 00:54:28,310
transitioning out of the LNM, or a need of supportive housing.

641
00:54:29,110 --> 00:54:33,730
That combined with outreach, of course, our core team, and please social services team,

642
00:54:34,350 --> 00:54:39,790
making contact and directing people to services, and then the other supportive service investments

643
00:54:39,790 --> 00:54:44,690
that we make in the daily operations for reach for home and outreach for operating the

644
00:54:44,690 --> 00:54:50,930
three studios in apartments as well as the shower ministry at St. Paul's Church all play into a system

645
00:54:50,930 --> 00:54:56,610
of care than northern Sonoma County that's actually achieving results, which is, you know,

646
00:54:56,710 --> 00:55:02,090
interestingly we were just contacted by the Turner Center out of Berkeley who was doing a study on

647
00:55:02,090 --> 00:55:08,530
interim housing in San Francisco and the Bay Area and they've wanted to include the L&M village as

648
00:55:08,530 --> 00:55:14,230
part of that practice seeing that the success that we've had in how we're working among different

649
00:55:14,230 --> 00:55:19,370
groups to coordinate this effort. So it really goes to show that when you get something started

650
00:55:19,370 --> 00:55:24,570
around in-term housing and you continue in that momentum that you can start seeing the results

651
00:55:24,570 --> 00:55:31,150
over time. And I'll hand it back to Margaret after that. Thanks and the last thing I'll say about

652
00:55:31,150 --> 00:55:37,650
the previous slide is and about the point time count is since January we are now at around 50

653
00:55:39,130 --> 00:55:43,550
unsheltered individuals not counting the people in our interim housing program that literally

654
00:55:43,550 --> 00:55:49,570
unsheltered. We're down to 50. Our goal is to be at functional zero by the end of 2026

655
00:55:50,130 --> 00:55:56,850
and we're seeing a path to that. We're seeing a way to get there. The next steps that we're all

656
00:55:56,850 --> 00:56:03,970
going to want to do as a community and in coordination is to really look at what our inflow looks like

657
00:56:03,970 --> 00:56:09,170
and what our outflow looks like and define what that means and what it looks like. And now we're at a

658
00:56:09,170 --> 00:56:14,750
number where that's going to be something we'll be able to do because it isn't such a big number.

659
00:56:15,310 --> 00:56:19,650
So how many people are coming in and becoming homeless? How many people are getting housed?

660
00:56:20,090 --> 00:56:24,970
So we need to look at that and then the last thing we want to also look at and define while we're

661
00:56:24,970 --> 00:56:30,210
kind of continuing towards functional zero is what is our threshold for functional zero.

662
00:56:30,770 --> 00:56:36,510
So, and this can change over time, right? But for now, what would that look like? Could we get down

663
00:56:36,510 --> 00:56:42,030
to five and functional zero means homelessness is rare and brief and that when someone becomes

664
00:56:42,030 --> 00:56:49,250
homeless, they can be housed or in an interim housing program within 30 days. So it all just depends

665
00:56:49,250 --> 00:56:56,030
on kind of where we land as to what that number might look like. Baker's Field, California is a great

666
00:56:56,030 --> 00:57:01,050
example. Their threshold a few years ago was three. So we're going to just want to kind of see what

667
00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:07,290
that looks like for us. As far as the LNM, these numbers are where we're at since we started

668
00:57:07,290 --> 00:57:16,050
the program November of 2022, so they're cumulative. And we are over a hundred participants

669
00:57:16,050 --> 00:57:23,570
served since November of 2022. And you can read the data here, but I would say that the biggest

670
00:57:23,570 --> 00:57:33,870
piece of data within this is that over 86% of people who have been a part of the LNM or are

671
00:57:33,870 --> 00:57:40,650
expanded scattered site interim housing program have either stayed in interim housing or have moved

672
00:57:40,650 --> 00:57:50,990
to permanent housing. So and then of that what 14% that hasn't, about 90% have returned to homelessness,

673
00:57:50,990 --> 00:57:56,630
While the others went to other places, I think one went to a state mental health hospital,

674
00:57:57,270 --> 00:57:59,390
and maybe one or two went to jail.

675
00:58:00,010 --> 00:58:05,970
And some stuff like that, but 9% is about 9% is a return to homeless rate, and that is

676
00:58:05,970 --> 00:58:11,790
a really low rate, and 6% is an extremely high rate to keep people housed.

677
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:15,340
Next slide.

678
00:58:17,060 --> 00:58:20,640
Our occupancy by race and ethnicity really hasn't moved.

679
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:26,540
We continue to represent the community that we serve, and so there really isn't new data here.

680
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:32,400
It's just a reminder that we're serving the people of the community, and we do that by having

681
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:40,400
over 50% of our staff by the angle, and over 80% of our staff are BIPOC, Black Indigenous people

682
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:46,280
of color, so we can meet people where they are with a culturally appropriate trauma-informed care.

683
00:58:47,660 --> 00:59:02,420
next slide. And this is just a reminder of the services that we offer at the LNM. Not much has changed, although our interim housing supervisor is going through her alcohol and other drug certification.

684
00:59:02,420 --> 00:59:22,320
We did have a county employee that was a part of the encampment resolution funding but also part of the project home key funding that was at the LNM one day a week and he was alcohol and other drug certified and he was repositioned somewhere else.

685
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:29,580
So we felt that it was important that we have that on staff and she took it upon herself and was proactive and is working towards that training.

686
00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:36,080
So that would be probably the only update here is that we're still offering it, but she's getting certified for it currently.

687
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:38,440
Next slide.

688
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,040
And I'll turn it back to Stephen.

689
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,060
So as you can see, the home key funding has been spent.

690
00:59:46,460 --> 00:59:51,340
We've been largely working off of county operating, but currently.

691
00:59:51,340 --> 00:59:57,080
that contract is also closed. So on September 17th we submitted a

692
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:11,780
In that, we requested $999,101 for fiscal year 25. With that NOFA, it is retroactive, so eligible

693
01:00:11,780 --> 01:00:17,260
activities that are taking place this year, can be enreimbursed through that. We also submitted

694
01:00:17,260 --> 01:00:23,080
two additional year budgets as part of that NOFA, under the guidance of the county, saying

695
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:30,600
that future funds may be awarded or supplemented to this NOFA to also provide funding for interim

696
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:36,380
housing. We'll hear back on the results of this. The NOFA published that this would be announced

697
01:00:36,380 --> 01:00:42,340
with an October and then it needs to go to the Board of Supervisors afterwards for final approval.

698
01:00:42,660 --> 01:00:47,240
But we expect to hear back this month whether or not we were funded through this notice of funding

699
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:47,720
availability.

700
01:00:53,870 --> 01:00:59,810
And then our challenge is really haven't changed much. There was a lapse in county

701
01:00:59,810 --> 01:01:06,590
operational funding, which we're working on through Measure O additional interim housing units.

702
01:01:07,830 --> 01:01:14,490
We've seen the success with interim housing, so looking for more interim housing is important.

703
01:01:14,810 --> 01:01:21,050
Also, the other thing that I think I've reported on before is that the scattered site interim housing

704
01:01:21,050 --> 01:01:27,930
is with the Encampment Resolution Funding that's ending next June, and we were hopeful

705
01:01:27,930 --> 01:01:31,970
that people would have vouchers and be able to kind of flip those to permanent supportive

706
01:01:31,970 --> 01:01:37,070
units by now, but because there aren't vouchers available, that's not going to be possible.

707
01:01:37,570 --> 01:01:44,130
However, a NOFA went in for Measure O in partnership with the cities of Windsor and Cloverdale,

708
01:01:44,130 --> 01:01:48,270
but it's for all of Northern Sonoma County for those scattered sites as well.

709
01:01:48,270 --> 01:01:53,730
So we're waiting to hear if we get the funding for that, if we do, then we would have another

710
01:01:53,730 --> 01:01:57,170
year of funding for all of those scattered sites.

711
01:01:57,470 --> 01:02:01,850
But additional interim housing units are always a challenge and then permanent supportive

712
01:02:01,850 --> 01:02:02,310
housing.

713
01:02:03,150 --> 01:02:05,130
And our opportunities remain the same.

714
01:02:05,830 --> 01:02:12,690
We have, I think, the latest opportunity has been the measure of O-Pathways to sustain

715
01:02:12,690 --> 01:02:14,110
ability to fall on the side.

716
01:02:15,750 --> 01:02:18,130
And next, I think that's it.

717
01:02:18,130 --> 01:02:21,670
And just a huge thank you and questions and discussion.

718
01:02:22,230 --> 01:02:27,550
Well, we actually do, if we can pull it up, we have a video that was produced by Reach

719
01:02:27,550 --> 01:02:33,930
for Home for their fundraiser, which took place last weekend, and that we would like

720
01:02:33,930 --> 01:02:37,910
to share with the council talking about the L&M Village, it

721
01:02:40,630 --> 01:02:41,370
will be just one second.

722
01:02:57,870 --> 01:03:05,090
I was definitely lost, hopeless, and scared, and Reach for Home definitely helped change

723
01:03:05,090 --> 01:03:05,290
that.

724
01:03:06,850 --> 01:03:12,690
I was probably about four or five months pregnant when Reach for Home got us into an apartment

725
01:03:12,690 --> 01:03:14,470
over at the Victory Apartments.

726
01:03:15,530 --> 01:03:21,410
Amanda called me and I remember talking to her and just almost being in tears just really

727
01:03:21,410 --> 01:03:24,970
felt like I actually had real help for the first time in a long time.

728
01:03:26,110 --> 01:03:31,370
And then probably about three or four days later I got a phone call from Amanda and she

729
01:03:31,370 --> 01:03:32,870
was like, can you guys move in?

730
01:03:33,890 --> 01:03:36,070
They have been there since my son was born.

731
01:03:36,490 --> 01:03:38,850
They've been super supportive, like a family.

732
01:03:40,210 --> 01:03:42,810
If I had never gotten in touch with preacher home,

733
01:03:43,350 --> 01:03:45,350
I would most likely still be living on the river

734
01:03:45,350 --> 01:03:47,590
in a tent struggling to survive.

735
01:03:49,530 --> 01:03:50,650
Every day is different.

736
01:03:50,950 --> 01:03:53,670
You don't know what the person is going through

737
01:03:53,670 --> 01:03:54,450
that you're gonna see.

738
01:03:54,730 --> 01:03:57,170
They're either dealing with something very traumatic

739
01:03:57,170 --> 01:03:58,410
and I'm gonna be there

740
01:03:58,410 --> 01:04:00,170
or they had a great accomplishment

741
01:04:00,170 --> 01:04:02,930
and we're both going to be super happy.

742
01:04:03,310 --> 01:04:06,110
I feel like as a team, we all come together

743
01:04:06,110 --> 01:04:10,230
and make sure that what the participant gets is like

744
01:04:11,030 --> 01:04:15,770
from all of us as a team, not just from one of us.

745
01:04:16,690 --> 01:04:19,090
Having someone to connect you to those resources

746
01:04:19,090 --> 01:04:21,550
makes a huge change in their lives.

747
01:04:22,110 --> 01:04:24,850
If I'd never gotten in contact with Reach for Home

748
01:04:24,850 --> 01:04:28,390
or showing that they were here, it would not be good.

749
01:04:29,250 --> 01:04:32,090
I kind of realized that I had to change something.

750
01:04:32,290 --> 01:04:34,790
I was the only person that could do that in my life.

751
01:04:34,790 --> 01:04:37,870
I couldn't just keep like being upset by the things that happened to me in my past

752
01:04:37,870 --> 01:04:41,930
because I couldn't change those, but I could not have to stay in that situation

753
01:04:41,930 --> 01:04:43,210
by just changing myself.

754
01:04:44,650 --> 01:04:51,010
Opening up the LNAM has impacted Hildesburg, unshielded community in a way that Northern

755
01:04:51,010 --> 01:04:52,850
Sonoma County hasn't been supported before.

756
01:04:53,130 --> 01:04:56,450
There's a place that people are allowed to come and they can hang out.

757
01:04:56,450 --> 01:04:59,170
They have a safe space, people that they can talk to.

758
01:04:59,510 --> 01:05:02,790
I've seen a lot of our community that didn't know the resources,

759
01:05:03,090 --> 01:05:06,430
so having them come into the L&M and giving the opportunity to

760
01:05:06,430 --> 01:05:10,490
grow has also impacted our community in a positive way.

761
01:05:10,950 --> 01:05:11,210
I'll

762
01:05:13,860 --> 01:05:16,740
be, you know, past three years and then I got back on my feet

763
01:05:16,740 --> 01:05:21,400
to where I need to be steady, you know, grow, be the person you want to be,

764
01:05:21,940 --> 01:05:23,440
and never stop them. You just keep going.

765
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:28,760
The man that Daniel is today, we've seen him go through almost every program

766
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,300
that Reach for Home has to offer.

767
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:35,220
And every single step along the way Daniel has chosen himself

768
01:05:35,700 --> 01:05:38,880
and chosen to participate and engage and grow.

769
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:43,990
Since 2020, Reach for Home has decreased homelessness

770
01:05:43,990 --> 01:05:46,990
by over 60% in Northern Sonoma County.

771
01:05:47,410 --> 01:05:49,010
Our goal is to reach functional zero.

772
01:05:49,870 --> 01:05:54,110
I wanted to share my story today so that I could give back

773
01:05:54,110 --> 01:05:56,210
to the people that have given me so much

774
01:05:56,210 --> 01:05:57,610
and that is Reach for Home.

775
01:05:57,610 --> 01:06:04,730
because of them and I have my family, my son, I have a place to live and I have an opportunity to have a future.

776
01:06:30,180 --> 01:06:41,400
So with that video, I would just love to say just thank you to the City Council and to the City of Hilsburg for making all of that possible and just we really appreciate you.

777
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:49,020
Thank you. That's very inspiring, bring tears to my eyes and I appreciate that.

778
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:55,380
Does council have questions, comments, council member Edwards?

779
01:06:56,340 --> 01:07:01,800
Yes, it's nice to see that you're moving and yet sad that you're still having the permanent placement issues.

780
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:17,380
How is the voucher program looking? Is it, I know that we budget cuts and affecting, is it now, is that on top of the challenge of finding landlords or how is that situation working for permanent supportive housing?

781
01:07:18,740 --> 01:07:25,980
Yeah. There are project-based vouchers for new places opening up. For example, once Dry Creek

782
01:07:25,980 --> 01:07:31,300
opens up, we'll have a couple of units there that will be project-based vouchers.

783
01:07:31,780 --> 01:07:36,900
But individual vouchers where you can use them anywhere in the community for market-rate rentals,

784
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:43,240
those we don't foresee happening for another three years. There's no mention of them and I don't

785
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:49,240
believe they'll probably get put into any budgets and those are the ones that are tricky

786
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:53,480
because we have people in those scattered sites who are going to need those to stay in them.

787
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:58,180
All right, and Matt, and I just wanted to know if we had an update on the Russian river,

788
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,340
I know you've got the Russian river keepers cleaning it up. I know last time we had a few people

789
01:08:02,340 --> 01:08:06,620
still on the river. Do we still have those out there? What's the status of that?

790
01:08:07,340 --> 01:08:13,020
Yes, the two people are still there and we were hopeful last week that they maybe

791
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:20,300
We're going to make a change because they were cited by the sheriff and I believe by the fire department.

792
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:27,200
I think there were two different public service entities out there ticketing them and they did reach out to us for help.

793
01:08:27,820 --> 01:08:32,500
And we did encourage them to come to the LNM and believe they're considering it.

794
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:39,880
We're just, we need that enforcement to continue to help them come in and help us.

795
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:49,320
help, you know, to help us help them. We kind of need that partnership, as well as where we are, but we are at the same status quo as we were before with those.

796
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:56,740
Now, is there any help with the, you know, because ticketing and finding it's just kind of a spiral down and makes people worse when they're down?

797
01:08:57,140 --> 01:09:04,360
Is there a way that they get help and reduce fines if they do come in or that still follows them as an impediment to them going forward?

798
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:13,700
No, as a matter of fact, we've already offered for us to help them with all of those and with letters of support once they're in our program.

799
01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:18,400
And so that that hope is definitely there. We just need them to take the help.

800
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:23,280
So we're kind of using the stick and the kind of pulling the man as I know it's been difficult.

801
01:09:23,580 --> 01:09:24,820
We've been talking about it for years.

802
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:30,980
It's been a while. So yes, we're doing whatever we can to help them make it make the choice to come in.

803
01:09:30,980 --> 01:09:31,740
All right, thanks.

804
01:09:31,820 --> 01:09:33,080
And I seem to progress on that.

805
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:34,880
Must be your hair.

806
01:09:36,380 --> 01:09:42,280
Yeah, you know, I just want to acknowledge the tremendous amount of work that you and

807
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:46,920
your team do to approach this goal of functional zero.

808
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,700
You know, there's a lot that goes behind the scenes and we get a little glimpse of that in

809
01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:52,040
the video.

810
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,060
But I just, it doesn't happen automatically.

811
01:09:55,280 --> 01:10:00,600
I know you guys are really putting a ton of effort into this, and I'm grateful, I think

812
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:05,820
community is tremendously grateful for those efforts. So thank you. It's really

813
01:10:05,820 --> 01:10:10,640
just so important. I saw that video before and I saw it, you know, again tonight, and it took

814
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:16,840
me up again. It's just, it's really poignant to see what's happening there. I have a quick question.

815
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:24,740
I just noticed that the steepest decline in homelessness was in the unincorporated areas and I just

816
01:10:24,740 --> 01:10:27,540
wondered if you had some insight into why that happened.

817
01:10:28,660 --> 01:10:34,980
Yeah, well most of the Russian River area in Healdsburg on the SIR property is considered

818
01:10:34,980 --> 01:10:42,040
unincorporated or at least a huge part of it and it gets a little wonky because you

819
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:48,440
could be standing in one place and it's city and then next it's waterway and then it's

820
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:56,060
county and so a lot of that is actually Healdsburg and then we also have some unincorporated areas

821
01:10:56,060 --> 01:10:57,900
is we serve right outside of Cloverdale

822
01:10:57,900 --> 01:10:59,900
that also could be impacting that number.

823
01:11:00,100 --> 01:11:03,940
And then there's also some unincorporated patches

824
01:11:03,940 --> 01:11:05,480
in the Windsor area.

825
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,300
So we serve that whole squawth,

826
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,680
but this year, a lot of the river accounted

827
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:13,160
for that big drop, too,

828
01:11:13,680 --> 01:11:15,120
because it is unincorporated.

829
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:16,440
Thank you.

830
01:11:18,350 --> 01:11:19,410
You also remember Haigley?

831
01:11:20,170 --> 01:11:20,670
Any other questions?

832
01:11:23,290 --> 01:11:25,390
Yeah, I had a couple of questions.

833
01:11:25,390 --> 01:11:37,050
And first, you know, just going back to kind of the inception of where all this was coming together and then where we are today is just incredible.

834
01:11:37,630 --> 01:11:49,650
Especially when you think of the conversations we had about, you know, people sleeping in parklets and where you had some property owners beating people others saying, no, we don't want people sleeping here.

835
01:11:49,650 --> 01:11:54,910
we need a solution to a whole Facebook thread about a shopping cart and whether we should

836
01:11:54,910 --> 01:11:56,290
ban shopping carts in downtown.

837
01:11:57,370 --> 01:12:03,890
So this is a completely different world that we're in now in terms of where heelsburg is

838
01:12:03,890 --> 01:12:05,230
and what we've been able to accomplish.

839
01:12:05,550 --> 01:12:11,970
So I just, I mean, I'm very grateful for everything that you do and what you've done.

840
01:12:12,930 --> 01:12:23,130
and to kind of follow up on that is once we get to functional zero and we've talked about

841
01:12:23,130 --> 01:12:25,190
this in the past is the what's next.

842
01:12:27,830 --> 01:12:33,970
If you go back to that slide, we're looking at almost a million dollars for one year to

843
01:12:33,970 --> 01:12:35,010
operate the property.

844
01:12:36,010 --> 01:12:43,030
It's not sustainable, especially in this current financing, you know, the way funds are

845
01:12:43,030 --> 01:12:44,070
drying up everywhere.

846
01:12:45,030 --> 01:12:50,970
And so, you know, we had the conversation about how it's hard to get people off the river

847
01:12:50,970 --> 01:12:57,230
that have been living on there for 30 years, and, you know, you're excited to start pivoting

848
01:12:57,230 --> 01:13:04,130
the focus to abuse mother that just lost her place and it's a lot easier to get somebody

849
01:13:04,130 --> 01:13:10,990
back in the housing that hasn't been living on the river. So I guess what you know I would like to

850
01:13:10,990 --> 01:13:18,770
plant to see that we start looking at what's element village 2.0 and you know what can we leverage

851
01:13:19,430 --> 01:13:25,690
related to the smart train and being within that zone higher density housing where the focus is

852
01:13:25,690 --> 01:13:30,750
shifting and now we have some income restricted units and some other things for that site because at

853
01:13:30,750 --> 01:13:31,390
at the end of the day.

854
01:13:31,930 --> 01:13:34,370
I know we have obligations with the project home key,

855
01:13:34,910 --> 01:13:37,330
with certain amount of obligation,

856
01:13:37,610 --> 01:13:38,930
was it four years left on that?

857
01:13:39,350 --> 01:13:41,510
We have a 15 year obligation.

858
01:13:42,190 --> 01:13:44,090
Okay, so we have a few years left on that,

859
01:13:44,210 --> 01:13:47,750
but the way things move at government speed,

860
01:13:48,030 --> 01:13:52,230
I think it is worth it to start formalizing that vision

861
01:13:52,230 --> 01:13:55,790
of what L&M can be.

862
01:13:56,510 --> 01:13:58,790
We've seen what it's done,

863
01:13:58,790 --> 01:14:09,110
But I think once we're getting to functional zero, we're looking at funding streams and how they change and the end of the day we have a great site right there.

864
01:14:09,830 --> 01:14:16,230
I'd curious what your thoughts are as we look toward the future beyond functional zero.

865
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:25,060
Well, I can talk. I can take the first piece and then Stephen can chime in.

866
01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:31,680
First, when we get to functional zero, it's not all just going to go away.

867
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:38,220
We really need to make sure that we stick with the people who we have housed,

868
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:44,880
because all of the people minus just a very few handful are chronically homeless individuals

869
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:50,960
that have been in Heelsburg, we're talking about people who have been unsheltered for 20 years and longer.

870
01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:56,980
So keeping them housed is, you know, not going to be a...

871
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,100
Members and years and years in order for them to not return to Hillsburg on sheltered. So, we have to make sure that we do that. And then also, like you said, the people who are about to lose their housing. I mean, obviously we're going to focus on that. Steven and I have also had some conversations about, you know, does the LNM village, you know, is there a way we can get permission to make it into, you know, permanent supportive housing as a part of that transition, you know, through functional zero.

872
01:15:29,740 --> 01:15:42,560
But I think we have our hands are not going to be empty with lack of task or need for housing, because we're not going to be, we're never going to be zero homeless.

873
01:15:42,940 --> 01:15:49,240
Like we're always going to need an interim housing place. It's just maybe not going to need to be 22 units.

874
01:15:49,980 --> 01:15:54,620
But Stephen can also chime in because I know he has some visions for it as well.

875
01:15:54,620 --> 01:16:17,520
I think that, you know, as we approach that number, it's a conversation that we would have to talk to the state about, but the site itself with its zoning and the proximity, as you mentioned, definitely has been on my radar as a potential redevelopment for affordable housing that can incorporate both uses, but how that exactly would work with the existing home key covenant.

876
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:21,220
And we're not quite at that point to have that conversation with the state.

877
01:16:21,380 --> 01:16:26,660
I think definitely as we move forward, the shift becomes more towards prevention and

878
01:16:26,660 --> 01:16:32,880
prevention work, which Reach for Home already does to ensure that the influx into

879
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,780
homelessness is prevented so that we're not building up additional encampments.

880
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:43,980
But also still maintaining shelter space because that's been a very successful tool in ensuring people get more permanent housing.

881
01:16:43,980 --> 01:16:58,380
But that site does have the ability, you know, to house more units than that are currently on there and could potentially be a good look at maybe making an affordable housing mix with permanent supportive or some kind of use like that.

882
01:16:58,540 --> 01:17:06,760
But I think that that's probably something that as we get closer towards, you know, the five year mark would be something that we would engage the state with.

883
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:26,320
Thank you. I think I just want to make sure that as we're having conversations about the development of that area that we're kind of keeping that in mind that we have this, this site that, you know, we got state money given to us that now we own that site.

884
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:29,460
So it's a real opportunity. Thank you.

885
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:36,520
Councilmember Kelly. Thank you. Well, I just want to echo the sentiments

886
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:46,020
of congratulations and really blown away by your success rate of keeping people housed.

887
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:55,180
I think, you know, we oftentimes, what is Supervisor Corolley said, don't let your aim for perfection

888
01:17:55,180 --> 01:18:00,280
get in the way of good or something like that we have of course it's not a perfect site and

889
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:05,360
sometimes we hear nitpicky comments from people in the community or push back about things that

890
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:12,920
haven't gone exactly perfectly but the success rate of keeping people housed being in the 80s come

891
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:17,500
I mean there are cities there are organizations their success rate of keeping people housed is like

892
01:18:17,500 --> 01:18:24,340
30% and they are jumping for joy that they are keeping 30% of their folks into housing after they

893
01:18:24,340 --> 01:18:29,700
come through transitional or interim housing. So the fact that you are in the 80 percentile

894
01:18:29,700 --> 01:18:35,520
of keeping people housed and on the housing spectrum is insane. No wonder Berkeley wants to study

895
01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:40,460
you. I mean that is amazing and we should be so, so proud of the work that Reach for Home is

896
01:18:40,460 --> 01:18:47,620
doing in this community. And I think Council Member Higgley said it really well. We were at a place,

897
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:52,180
very different place. I would say that for Heelsburg, we were at like a crisis level of homelessness

898
01:18:52,180 --> 01:19:22,080
When we first had this conversation before LNM opened, I know that's maybe laughable compared to the crisis of homelessness happening in other communities across the region, but it was the most visible homelessness that we had ever experienced in Healdsburg and we had people sleeping on mattresses in the plaza on a regular basis people coming into town and and kind of really unable to find shelter for weeks on end and it was a huge issue for people in our community and we're just not seeing that anymore people are getting housed and staying housed and that is thanks

899
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:25,620
to this partnership and thanks the work of Margaret and her team at Reach for Home.

900
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:31,100
So I just want to, you know, echo the congratulatory comments and say that we really,

901
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:37,200
we know that we can't take our eye off the ball, that if we stop supporting this work,

902
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:43,380
that we will see challenges again in the future. And so, as Councillor Brahagley said, you know,

903
01:19:43,480 --> 01:19:50,140
what is, what does LNM 2.0 look like? Is it creating more permanent supportive units on site in

904
01:19:50,140 --> 01:19:54,920
In addition to the interim units on site, is it another, you know, scattered site project?

905
01:19:55,540 --> 01:19:59,920
How do we ensure that, you know, we're seeing a lot of data around seniors and seniors

906
01:19:59,920 --> 01:20:04,380
becoming the largest growing population of homeless in our region?

907
01:20:04,740 --> 01:20:10,920
How are we ensuring that we're creating interim housing solutions for seniors who, you know,

908
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:15,140
don't have access to units and when we're having conversations about market rate development,

909
01:20:15,140 --> 01:20:17,800
moving forward or other types of development moving forward?

910
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:24,060
how do we ensure that the affordable units in maybe future senior living have units for our

911
01:20:24,060 --> 01:20:29,260
senior population that you know need to be housed. So I think those are really exciting conversations

912
01:20:29,260 --> 01:20:34,280
that we now get to have the space to have because of the successful work that you guys have done.

913
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,800
So congratulations and really looking forward to keeping those conversations going into the future.

914
01:20:42,520 --> 01:20:46,520
Thank you. I just wanted to ask about the Sanju Hills Development. Are there

915
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:49,680
Is there some interim housing units there coming our way?

916
01:20:49,940 --> 01:20:51,780
No, there's none planned for that site.

917
01:20:52,100 --> 01:20:54,240
Okay, but there are for the dry creek comments.

918
01:20:54,500 --> 01:20:55,240
Dry creek, yes there are.

919
01:20:55,500 --> 01:20:59,120
Okay, and anything else in the pipeline there?

920
01:20:59,500 --> 01:21:03,140
We have the, well we still maintain the scattered site units

921
01:21:03,140 --> 01:21:07,480
that are accessible, but mainly dry creek is the one that's coming forward.

922
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:08,720
And how many are there?

923
01:21:09,660 --> 01:21:11,840
Margaret, it was eight.

924
01:21:12,900 --> 01:21:38,920
Well, I think it's eight or nine and I think that one thing I'll point out is this is the first time I've been involved in something like this. I don't know how frequently this happens with housing developer, but two of those units that are going to be at dry creep, we're going to be set aside specifically for people who are falling into homelessness or an imminent danger becoming homeless.

925
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:54,780
And so there will be two units that will be able to use through our referral network from that keepable house to program if they're in northern to know my county and there's no way they can afford the rent where they are and it's not going to be helpful to just pay their rent for them.

926
01:21:55,180 --> 01:22:04,180
There will be two units there that will help and that's going to be kind of a pilot that I think would be really interesting to see is that another way we can keep people from inflowing.

927
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:07,500
That's good to know. Thank you.

928
01:22:07,700 --> 01:22:08,100
The front.

929
01:22:08,660 --> 01:22:08,780
Okay.

930
01:22:09,300 --> 01:22:11,720
So I'll open this up to public comment.

931
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,540
Do we have anyone who would like to speak on this topic?

932
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:18,660
Seeing no one here to come forward.

933
01:22:19,020 --> 01:22:20,000
I'll close public comment.

934
01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:23,320
And just thank you all for this.

935
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,460
And I want to echo what everybody else has said.

936
01:22:26,620 --> 01:22:31,520
And I am also excited about the concept of the LNM2.0.

937
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:38,120
I mean, you know, that'll be a real progress when we get to that point, so thank you very much both of you.

938
01:22:38,820 --> 01:22:39,680
Thank you.

939
01:22:41,100 --> 01:22:46,940
Okay, so we'll move on then to Stephen State where you are, right?

940
01:22:47,700 --> 01:22:49,180
1408 University Street,

941
01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:54,920
that's street.

942
01:22:59,810 --> 01:23:04,890
Okay, so Mayor, members of the Council, Stephen Sotomayor, once again,

943
01:23:04,890 --> 01:23:11,330
coming with Disposition Direction for 148 University Avenue, we can jump to the next slide.

944
01:23:12,730 --> 01:23:15,990
In this presentation, I'm going to go over the background of this property.

945
01:23:16,570 --> 01:23:21,990
Townsville's taken action previously on this related to a deed restriction that was a part of

946
01:23:21,990 --> 01:23:27,810
the transfer of this property to the city. We will go over a little bit about the zoning development

947
01:23:27,810 --> 01:23:36,530
and constraints, and then ask council to direct staff to give a direction on how we should proceed next slide.

948
01:23:37,470 --> 01:23:44,510
So we're asking today to either direct staff to just maintain ownership of 1408 University Street,

949
01:23:45,170 --> 01:23:48,970
initiate compliance with the California Surplus Land Act for potential disposition,

950
01:23:48,970 --> 01:23:51,550
which I'll explain a little bit further into the presentation,

951
01:23:52,130 --> 01:23:55,750
or obtain further analysis prior to taking action next slide.

952
01:23:56,370 --> 01:24:05,570
I was going to joke to say that I had the oldest property except the bill of presentation I think took the cake on that one, but starting back in 1957,

953
01:24:07,390 --> 01:24:11,730
Cecil Gondlin and Claire Gondlin conveyed this property to the city by grant deed.

954
01:24:12,530 --> 01:24:15,550
That grant deed restricted the property for use.

955
01:24:15,890 --> 01:24:21,330
Manip's municipal purpose is specifically for a fire station or substation.

956
01:24:21,330 --> 01:24:30,490
On January 22nd, the City Council accepted that gift for use restricted to a firehouse

957
01:24:30,490 --> 01:24:31,490
for municipal use.

958
01:24:32,290 --> 01:24:37,910
In December 1970, with the passing of Cecil Gauntlin and Claire Gauntlin, this was transferred

959
01:24:37,910 --> 01:24:45,270
over to the Shriners Hospital for children who maintained stewardship over this with the

960
01:24:45,270 --> 01:24:46,530
interest in the deed restriction.

961
01:24:48,190 --> 01:24:53,150
In 1989, the city took a look at this and they said, hey, we got this piece of property.

962
01:24:53,330 --> 01:24:55,350
Let's take a look at its suitability for development.

963
01:24:55,850 --> 01:25:00,470
There was a geological study, which really found the site was unsuitable for a fire house

964
01:25:00,470 --> 01:25:01,990
or any other municipal purpose.

965
01:25:02,810 --> 01:25:09,150
And then, come along December 12, 2023, we began looking at this again specifically when

966
01:25:09,150 --> 01:25:13,890
we were looking at city property that might be used for affordable housing.

967
01:25:13,890 --> 01:25:19,530
we went through the inventory of everything and we found this one property but noticed

968
01:25:19,530 --> 01:25:24,450
that it had a deed restriction and I have to say that Griselda Virial from our housing

969
01:25:24,450 --> 01:25:32,790
department was in the depths of the county's archives to research this and define this information.

970
01:25:33,850 --> 01:25:39,170
I mean it was like the Indiana Jones vault when they were hiding the arc to be able to find this

971
01:25:39,170 --> 01:25:45,890
but she did a great job of really spearheading this initiative and we reached out to the

972
01:25:45,890 --> 01:25:50,770
Shriners to begin the conversation to remove the deed restriction or to find out what they

973
01:25:50,770 --> 01:25:56,450
would be willing to do around that. As you can see that took a little bit of time but during that

974
01:25:56,450 --> 01:26:02,590
we conducted an appraisal report and then finally in February 14th the Shriners signed the Termination

975
01:26:02,590 --> 01:26:08,910
Agreement and quick claim deed which removed that restriction and then on March 17th we asked the

976
01:26:08,910 --> 01:26:14,290
council to approve that agreement, which was passed under resolution 18 2025.

977
01:26:15,310 --> 01:26:21,050
And then in July, we went and we did a little bit more research into this to look at what could potentially be done with it.

978
01:26:21,210 --> 01:26:25,990
And part of that is looking at the easements as you know, the gauntlet water tower sits above there.

979
01:26:26,150 --> 01:26:28,290
We have public utility easements that come through.

980
01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:35,850
We have the Pacific telecom and telegraph line that goes through there, which seems very archaic, but is handed off to AT&T.

981
01:26:35,850 --> 01:26:46,030
But we did that easement exhibit and further in this presentation I'll be able to describe a little bit about how that impacts the property next slide.

982
01:26:47,490 --> 01:26:54,150
So the property is a vacant city lot. It's about 1.23 acres direct access to university street.

983
01:26:54,630 --> 01:27:00,550
It's got a significant slope to the property and you'll see in photos that that's very easy to notice there.

984
01:27:00,550 --> 01:27:07,050
The geotechnical study really determined that the soils are not really usable for a municipal

985
01:27:07,050 --> 01:27:13,970
purpose and there's a lot of constraints related to the geological and basically the slope

986
01:27:13,970 --> 01:27:16,430
of the property along with the easements.

987
01:27:17,310 --> 01:27:23,850
It's for the most part, it's bordered by residential, the churches on the other side as well as a

988
01:27:23,850 --> 01:27:27,630
little piece of county property that abuts the top of the property.

989
01:27:28,270 --> 01:27:28,550
Next slide.

990
01:27:29,530 --> 01:27:36,810
The zoning for this property is R1-12,500 so the minimum parcel size would be 12,500 square feet.

991
01:27:37,730 --> 01:27:41,670
It's a low density residential which supports about one to three units in anchor.

992
01:27:42,410 --> 01:27:46,670
One thing to note, it's on the hillside overlay district, which adds additional requirements,

993
01:27:47,390 --> 01:27:54,690
which means that any lot on there needs to be a minimum of 6,000 feet and with a lot with of 60 feet.

994
01:27:54,690 --> 01:28:00,750
But that also requires geotechnical and slope stability reports, grading, building constraints

995
01:28:00,750 --> 01:28:05,210
on slopes, and higher development costs come with that type of activity.

996
01:28:06,570 --> 01:28:12,270
And so in general, this parcel is a little bit technically difficult to work with, but

997
01:28:12,270 --> 01:28:13,830
not impossible, next slide.

998
01:28:14,990 --> 01:28:19,990
The main challenge here that we have along this property, as you can note, is the easements

999
01:28:19,990 --> 01:28:21,350
that run through this property.

1000
01:28:21,890 --> 01:28:26,850
You can see that a public utility easement runs along the border, doesn't mean that there

1001
01:28:26,850 --> 01:28:30,550
wouldn't be a ability to access that, but it would require some negotiation.

1002
01:28:31,290 --> 01:28:35,450
The one that's the most difficult in here that we're looking at is the Pacific telephone

1003
01:28:35,450 --> 01:28:41,750
and telegraph easement, which, like I said, sounds very old, but it's handed off to AT&T.

1004
01:28:42,130 --> 01:28:44,730
And that one almost bifurcates the property.

1005
01:28:45,430 --> 01:28:49,830
As you can see, that splitting this property out makes it a little bit more difficult and how

1006
01:28:49,830 --> 01:28:56,010
you would arrange that and then we have the private water and sewer easements that run along

1007
01:28:56,010 --> 01:29:02,830
there as noted in yellow. One thing that was as we looked at this and we can jump to the next

1008
01:29:02,830 --> 01:29:09,050
slide in this as well. We did look at this site from the standpoint of what we could do with it and

1009
01:29:09,050 --> 01:29:13,690
in fact the church that was next door actually was interested in taking a look at it for potentially

1010
01:29:13,690 --> 01:29:18,590
housing development, but what we've kind of discovered is that being able to split out

1011
01:29:18,590 --> 01:29:24,270
this site or to get any kind of yield that would be more than one or two units is very

1012
01:29:24,270 --> 01:29:32,310
difficult. The first part is the zoning that we have, even with SB 9 urban lot splits

1013
01:29:32,310 --> 01:29:37,130
and being able to split it out, maybe out 80 years, it still adds a level of complexity

1014
01:29:37,130 --> 01:29:42,890
that would be for an affordable housing project almost cost prohibitive with a very low unit

1015
01:29:42,890 --> 01:29:47,610
yield. It would be very difficult to make something like that work, especially in a

1016
01:29:47,610 --> 01:29:54,270
for sale type environment. In general, you know, staff after looking at this and

1017
01:29:54,270 --> 01:29:57,030
consulting with, you know, architects that

1018
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,860
And realistically, that this site is really suited for about one and maybe two most, at most single family homes that would be buildable on that site based upon the constraints that we have next slide. So for the first option, the city could choose to maintain ownership of the property at 1408 University. Forgo the surplus land act process, which is what we're required to do if we choose to dispose of the site.

1019
01:30:29,860 --> 01:30:35,380
either through sale or any other kind of transfer of the property.

1020
01:30:36,080 --> 01:30:41,280
And continue to evaluate future municipal or community serving uses, but as mentioned

1021
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:47,700
before, the constraints that are on that site make it generally not usable for municipal

1022
01:30:47,700 --> 01:30:48,480
facilities.

1023
01:30:48,860 --> 01:30:53,840
And then for affordable housing, it would be very cost prohibitive with a very low unit

1024
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:54,240
yield.

1025
01:30:55,260 --> 01:30:59,660
But in case the council chose to take a look at this and hold it for maybe in the future

1026
01:30:59,660 --> 01:31:02,640
use that might come down the line, that's one option that's available.

1027
01:31:03,500 --> 01:31:04,060
The next slide.

1028
01:31:05,660 --> 01:31:12,380
Option two is what staff would recommend to Council as the best path forward for this

1029
01:31:12,380 --> 01:31:12,840
property.

1030
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:16,560
And that would be to initiate compliance with the California Surface Land Act.

1031
01:31:17,260 --> 01:31:22,940
This is for the purpose of selling or otherwise transferring the property and what we would need

1032
01:31:22,940 --> 01:31:28,180
to do is if the Council chose to go this direction, is that staff would go and prepare the documentation

1033
01:31:28,180 --> 01:31:57,880
and come back to Council with appropriate resolution to begin this process, but we would declare the land surplus at a public meeting through a resolution and conduct the required sequa analysis of that, then we would be required to issue a notice of availability with priority given to affordable housing and I think here is kind of a catch all that we could put it out as part of this process and anybody that was interested statewide affordable housing developer could say, you know what, maybe I could make this work and they could bring forward a proposal

1034
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:04,580
And that might be the best way if there wasn't affordable housing use to get the best in the most creative proposals through the process.

1035
01:32:06,400 --> 01:32:18,280
So once those go out, they also go out to open space, they go out to parks, they go out to a list of various government agencies that might find some use for this property, qualified buyers must respond in writing.

1036
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:24,940
The surplus land process ends if no interest is received within that 60-day period.

1037
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:28,960
If somebody is interested, there's a 90-day negotiation period.

1038
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:31,660
We must negotiate in good faith.

1039
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:36,620
If there's no agreement that comes out of that process, then we are free to sell the property

1040
01:32:36,620 --> 01:32:45,960
on the open market and be able to apply the funds back to the city for different uses under

1041
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:54,240
municipal uses. We notify HCD, they govern this process. We've done this before with 155 dry creek.

1042
01:32:54,640 --> 01:33:01,060
We've done it for Sajio Hills. The state will look at our rationale. And for those two properties,

1043
01:33:01,060 --> 01:33:06,700
we declared that they were not subject to the surplus land act because they were for affordable housing.

1044
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:11,900
In this case, if we did want to sell it, we would have to go through this process and provide HCD

1045
01:33:11,900 --> 01:33:19,400
with all the documentation of what we done and then we are free to market this on the open market

1046
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:24,020
and see if there's interest from a private buyer. Next slide.

1047
01:33:28,600 --> 01:33:30,100
And so option number three,

1048
01:33:30,460 --> 01:33:36,660
of course, would be to ask staff to come back with any additional information or to ask questions

1049
01:33:36,660 --> 01:33:45,310
that staff could return to should the council choose to do so. Next slide. So the fiscal impact,

1050
01:33:45,310 --> 01:34:13,990
So originally this property was conveyed to the city at no cost by removing that de-districted restriction back in March on March 17th, we actually increased the flexibility for future use of this property and then if it is sold, the property disposition may generate a one time revenue for the city, which would be determined upon the market and what somebody is willing to offer based upon the site and the different constraints that are on there.

1051
01:34:13,990 --> 01:34:15,230
Next slide.

1052
01:34:17,730 --> 01:34:21,810
So back to the recommended action, which I think we've gone through a few times here,

1053
01:34:21,950 --> 01:34:26,870
and I will go to the next slide, which are questions that the council may have.

1054
01:34:27,110 --> 01:34:31,250
And as you can see, here's the sloping site itself as you look at it.

1055
01:34:32,750 --> 01:34:33,730
Thank you for that.

1056
01:34:33,990 --> 01:34:39,410
It's always interesting what we find we have decisions to make.

1057
01:34:39,830 --> 01:34:41,030
Do we have questions from council?

1058
01:34:42,650 --> 01:34:43,110
Are you?

1059
01:34:43,110 --> 01:34:44,850
Do you have a recommendation?

1060
01:34:46,390 --> 01:34:52,690
Yes, I think my recommendation after having looked at this for affordable housing development

1061
01:34:52,690 --> 01:35:00,110
and other uses would be to put it through the surplus land act and market this for sale

1062
01:35:00,110 --> 01:35:04,150
if no interest comes in from affordable housing developers to that process.

1063
01:35:04,370 --> 01:35:09,390
I think that the funds generated out of it could greatly support affordable housing initiatives

1064
01:35:09,390 --> 01:35:14,930
As we move forward, as you know, we are short of land for future development.

1065
01:35:15,250 --> 01:35:21,370
This piece would have been nice if it was available for such purposes, but based upon the constraints,

1066
01:35:21,530 --> 01:35:28,750
it's not, and potentially those funds could be used to find a site that would actually yield more units and match more

1067
01:35:28,750 --> 01:35:33,010
our traditional fiscal programs that we get through the state or the federal government.

1068
01:35:34,110 --> 01:35:34,790
Thank you.

1069
01:35:37,630 --> 01:35:38,370
Vice Mayor Harry.

1070
01:35:40,190 --> 01:35:55,250
If we do get to the position where we have sold the property, would there be any sort of discretion on our limitations on how we could spend that money within the housing category?

1071
01:35:56,690 --> 01:35:59,850
Within the housing category, I don't believe there would be.

1072
01:35:59,850 --> 01:36:14,730
When we removed that restriction, it was indicated and get quick lane deed was that towards affordable housing initiatives was one of the mentioned policy directions that we had in there.

1073
01:36:14,910 --> 01:36:17,250
So I think it's pretty broad and how it can be applied.

1074
01:36:18,010 --> 01:36:18,610
Okay, thanks.

1075
01:36:20,650 --> 01:36:23,070
Council member Haley, you want to make comments or wait?

1076
01:36:24,510 --> 01:36:25,070
Okay.

1077
01:36:25,690 --> 01:36:26,810
Council member Edwards.

1078
01:36:26,810 --> 01:36:32,690
Yeah, based on your review of this property and so forth, I'm getting the impression that

1079
01:36:33,590 --> 01:36:39,370
complicated means that the final product that would be on that would be a rather expensive project.

1080
01:36:40,470 --> 01:36:45,710
Does that fit in? I'm thinking that that would be if I look around at other hillsides that have been

1081
01:36:45,710 --> 01:36:52,890
developed, those are rather large homes, expensive homes with no yard space because of the cost to develop

1082
01:36:52,890 --> 01:37:01,050
about that? Is there seismologic issues with the property as far as land side with clay

1083
01:37:01,430 --> 01:37:04,210
that we got in that far into it or we just did a basic study?

1084
01:37:05,410 --> 01:37:09,930
The geotechnical report talked about the soil stability is something that had to be mitigated.

1085
01:37:10,290 --> 01:37:15,030
I would imagine that it's part of the due diligence whoever wanted to buy it, we look further

1086
01:37:15,030 --> 01:37:20,910
into that. But definitely with the hillside overlay, we require geotechnical reports as part

1087
01:37:20,910 --> 01:37:27,910
of that development and I think that what you would find is that it would be pretty significant

1088
01:37:27,910 --> 01:37:34,890
to mitigate that steep of a slope. So you would probably find a larger house or maybe potentially

1089
01:37:34,890 --> 01:37:40,390
it could be split into two but the easements also play a big role into that and how you would access

1090
01:37:40,390 --> 01:37:46,050
the property with those easements and not build over those easements. So it would be a significant

1091
01:37:46,050 --> 01:37:51,730
design challenges. We learned as we tried to look at it for affordable housing. So the soils

1092
01:37:51,730 --> 01:37:56,630
themselves would have to be whoever bought it would have to look into that. I'm familiar with

1093
01:37:56,630 --> 01:38:01,750
the soils that can ruin a dream. And then I'm guessing the PT&T are the telephone lines that go

1094
01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:08,750
across? Correct. Yeah. And that's now AT&T. AT&T still recorded as PT&T but assumed by AT&T.

1095
01:38:08,910 --> 01:38:14,070
And that could be undergrounded or it needs to stay above ground through there. I believe if they

1096
01:38:14,070 --> 01:38:15,850
we're to develop the site that would have to go under.

1097
01:38:16,450 --> 01:38:16,930
Okay, thank you.

1098
01:38:18,820 --> 01:38:21,600
So I'll go ahead and open this up to public comment.

1099
01:38:22,860 --> 01:38:25,200
That's seen anyone come forward, I'll close it,

1100
01:38:25,500 --> 01:38:28,160
and bring it back to Council Member Haigley comments.

1101
01:38:32,950 --> 01:38:33,470
Thank

1102
01:38:36,250 --> 01:38:37,690
you for the presentation.

1103
01:38:40,150 --> 01:38:43,150
The slope of the property and how it sits

1104
01:38:43,690 --> 01:38:47,850
does present some challenges that also opportunities.

1105
01:38:48,630 --> 01:38:52,010
But before I say anything, I think it's really important

1106
01:38:52,010 --> 01:38:57,770
that we thank the gauntlet family and I want to make sure that we treasure and appreciate this

1107
01:38:57,770 --> 01:39:02,710
generous gift that was given to the city of Heelsberg so that years later, decades later,

1108
01:39:02,810 --> 01:39:08,630
we have this opportunity to leverage that to something that's going to be a real community benefit

1109
01:39:08,630 --> 01:39:15,870
and you go to the original intention with that it was, you know, for municipal firehouse they were

1110
01:39:15,870 --> 01:39:20,150
thinking about the city of Heelsberg down the road. I'm assuming back then there wasn't much

1111
01:39:20,150 --> 01:39:36,270
north of Pal Avenue. So this was the north, you know, obviously things changed, but I want to make sure that we acknowledge and appreciate the intention behind giving this property to the city and future generations.

1112
01:39:36,270 --> 01:39:41,290
that to me is a big responsibility that it's not, okay, let's just sell it, here's some cash.

1113
01:39:41,670 --> 01:39:43,450
Just don't let out and do whatever you want.

1114
01:39:43,650 --> 01:39:56,710
So my thoughts are, you know, that I agree with you, go with option number two, proceed with the sale and this position.

1115
01:39:57,170 --> 01:40:04,450
But I think it's really important and for me personally, I would want some restrictions on those funds for some very specific purposes,

1116
01:40:04,450 --> 01:40:08,970
which we have the city have shown that we've been very good at, which is leveraging those funds.

1117
01:40:09,610 --> 01:40:17,670
Whether it's acquiring other property, the piece, the trance that the lenders or

1118
01:40:17,670 --> 01:40:23,250
the borrowers need to be able to finish their affordable housing projects.

1119
01:40:23,930 --> 01:40:28,590
And we've been able to lend that money out, we have some loads out that we'll get paid.

1120
01:40:29,070 --> 01:40:34,030
I think I really want to restrict those funds.

1121
01:40:34,030 --> 01:40:43,510
So it's not thrown into pay for operating expenses or we just talked about reach for home a million dollars for one years to operate that.

1122
01:40:43,670 --> 01:41:00,050
I want to make sure that these funds are separated out so that we know that this gift from the very generous family decades ago continues to give and grow and support our community side.

1123
01:41:00,050 --> 01:41:05,170
I think those are my main thoughts on how to approach this.

1124
01:41:05,290 --> 01:41:20,410
The second part is how I want to make sure that on the sales side that we don't put undue restrictions on potential buyers of people that are looking to develop the site so that we can maximize the value of this gift that was given to us.

1125
01:41:21,890 --> 01:41:24,910
And so those are my thoughts. Thank you.

1126
01:41:25,250 --> 01:41:26,730
Thank you for that.

1127
01:41:26,730 --> 01:41:27,350
Thank you, Mayor.

1128
01:41:27,690 --> 01:41:28,050
You concur.

1129
01:41:29,370 --> 01:41:35,610
Yeah, I concur, too, that a gift was given to a 67, 68 years ago has been with the city,

1130
01:41:35,610 --> 01:41:40,290
and I hope that we can put it into a project that, in another 68 years, we can look back

1131
01:41:40,290 --> 01:41:43,310
on, say, this gift really helped us get a good project going.

1132
01:41:43,410 --> 01:41:45,850
I think that that's important and really appreciated.

1133
01:41:46,070 --> 01:41:51,490
In fact, encourage other residents to see that we carry enough that they would kind of

1134
01:41:51,490 --> 01:41:53,010
need the same thing going forward.

1135
01:41:53,150 --> 01:41:56,610
So I think it's important that we set the example that the city is very responsible.

1136
01:41:56,610 --> 01:42:00,130
when we get these gifts given to us and we appreciate it.

1137
01:42:00,170 --> 01:42:05,170
So are you a proving option to the recommended action?

1138
01:42:05,650 --> 01:42:09,770
Absolutely, because keeping it, it's nice that it's there, it's a little open space, but

1139
01:42:09,770 --> 01:42:16,090
I think that their intent looking back was to help the community, and I think that using

1140
01:42:16,090 --> 01:42:21,530
that money for future affordable housing projects fills that intent of giving back to the

1141
01:42:21,530 --> 01:42:21,870
community.

1142
01:42:22,570 --> 01:42:24,410
Ms. Mayor, do you have comments?

1143
01:42:25,170 --> 01:42:32,670
I just like to echo that this is just another example of tremendous generosity we experience

1144
01:42:32,670 --> 01:42:36,950
in the elsewhere all the time and it's important that we don't take it lightly.

1145
01:42:37,270 --> 01:42:44,470
So I appreciate Council Member Hagley's comments and I'd like to make a motion to direct

1146
01:42:44,470 --> 01:42:49,310
staff to initiate compliance with the California Surferless Land Act for potential disposition.

1147
01:42:49,850 --> 01:42:50,130
Second.

1148
01:42:50,130 --> 01:42:58,300
can we have a roll call vote please? Councilmember Edwards? Yes. Councilmember Haigley? Yes.

1149
01:42:58,620 --> 01:43:05,020
Councilmember Kelly? Yes. Vice Mayor Herod? Yes. Mayor Mitchell? Yes. Thank you very much for that.

1150
01:43:05,340 --> 01:43:14,200
We look forward to the next step. Thank you. Thank you. Okay so now we go to appointment of a new planning

1151
01:43:14,200 --> 01:43:19,980
Commissioners, the Equatorina Allen, do you have something there? Is this April? No? Okay.

1152
01:43:20,300 --> 01:43:23,820
I have a very short presentation for you.

1153
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:26,940
Why I pull it up.

1154
01:43:29,880 --> 01:43:31,420
Okay, so the recommended action

1155
01:43:31,420 --> 01:43:38,000
this evening is to appoint one applicant to the Planning Commission for a term to expire June 30th,

1156
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:45,500
2027. A little background, the deadline to apply was August 28th. Seven applications were received.

1157
01:43:45,500 --> 01:43:59,280
two applicants withdrew before their interviews were conducted, the Subcommittee interviewed five people on September 19th and September 30th, and I'm going to pass this to the Subcommittee to finish.

1158
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:05,500
And that Subcommittee was Council Member Kelly and Vice Mayor Harris. Okay, who wants to speak for.

1159
01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:13,840
So, I wanted to thank all of the applicants, we had seven great folks who stepped forward

1160
01:44:13,840 --> 01:44:15,620
and expressed interest in this role.

1161
01:44:15,900 --> 01:44:22,900
We conducted five interviews, many of whom clearly did their homework and really were excited

1162
01:44:22,900 --> 01:44:24,760
and eager about this opportunity.

1163
01:44:25,400 --> 01:44:29,680
And I will say now, in case any of them are watching, what we always say during the interviews

1164
01:44:29,680 --> 01:44:35,340
which is true is that we do see these vacancies come up so often, whether it's, you know,

1165
01:44:35,340 --> 01:44:39,920
this case where someone moved outside of city limits and is unable to continue to serve on the

1166
01:44:39,920 --> 01:44:44,700
commission or when the terms come up which we have more coming available I believe next summer

1167
01:44:45,460 --> 01:44:51,300
that we really encourage folks to reapply and to be involved and to come to the commission

1168
01:44:51,300 --> 01:44:57,000
meetings and actually listen and learn from what's happening at the commission now so that when they

1169
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,820
That said, we did have one of the applicants who really stood out to us as someone who not

1170
01:45:06,820 --> 01:45:15,400
only will represent the city with great professionalism integrity but also really was well versed

1171
01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:20,400
in a lot of the existing projects that will be coming before the commission with some

1172
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:26,980
of the land use issues had reviewed and studied the general plan and specific area plans

1173
01:45:26,980 --> 01:45:34,480
and really we feel confident and we were unanimous and it was clear in our decision that we

1174
01:45:34,480 --> 01:45:38,500
think Christine Chadlick would be a great addition to the planning commission.

1175
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:50,600
And so yeah, thank you for those comments. It just said that it was pretty clear to us that she

1176
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:58,980
We will be able to hit the ground running and make a lot of wise and meaningful contributions

1177
01:45:58,980 --> 01:46:04,220
to the planning commission, which is not to say that the other applicants didn't present

1178
01:46:04,220 --> 01:46:07,160
really great qualities.

1179
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:15,600
And so once again, for anyone listening, as is often the case, we've had to pass on some

1180
01:46:15,600 --> 01:46:19,300
of folks who would really contribute well to our community,

1181
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:23,840
and we hope that they will find another opportunity to do so.

1182
01:46:24,060 --> 01:46:28,340
But congratulations to Christina Shadleck.

1183
01:46:29,600 --> 01:46:35,300
She's, if we so approve, it's going to be a great addition

1184
01:46:35,300 --> 01:46:35,940
to the planning question.

1185
01:46:38,940 --> 01:46:42,460
So if we have no comments, I'll open this up to public comment.

1186
01:46:43,820 --> 01:46:46,020
So you know when coming forward, we'll close it.

1187
01:46:46,020 --> 01:46:53,660
and entertain a motion. I move that we appoint Christina Schadlick to the Planning Commission to fulfill the vacancy.

1188
01:46:54,120 --> 01:46:54,800
I second.

1189
01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:57,660
We have a roll call vote on that, please.

1190
01:46:59,980 --> 01:47:01,280
Councilmember Edwards. Yes.

1191
01:47:01,740 --> 01:47:03,060
Councilmember Higley. Yes.

1192
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:04,520
Councilmember Kelly. Yes.

1193
01:47:05,020 --> 01:47:06,140
Vice Mayor Herod. Yes.

1194
01:47:06,460 --> 01:47:07,340
Mayor Mitchell. Yes.

1195
01:47:08,160 --> 01:47:12,020
So congratulations and thank you to this subcommittee for that great work.

1196
01:47:12,140 --> 01:47:15,880
I know that's a lot of time of your time, so appreciate that.

1197
01:47:15,880 --> 01:47:18,720
And now we have to point another subcommittee.

1198
01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:21,220
We'll go back to right, Secret Green Allen.

1199
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,500
Yes, another very short presentation for you.

1200
01:47:25,260 --> 01:47:28,120
The recommended action is to appoint a City Council subcommittee

1201
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:30,820
to interview the applicants for the Arts and Culture Commission.

1202
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:35,700
The deadline to apply to the Arts and Culture Commission was September 11th,

1203
01:47:35,700 --> 01:47:39,000
and we received two applications by that deadline.

1204
01:47:40,140 --> 01:47:41,760
And I'm happy to answer any questions.

1205
01:47:43,360 --> 01:47:51,000
comments anyone volunteers right okay I'll volunteer anyone else

1206
01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:57,700
I'll do it okay does

1207
01:47:57,700 --> 01:48:03,020
every do we do we have to vote on that yes yes please so I always do we need to go to

1208
01:48:03,020 --> 01:48:09,380
public comment public comment yes I was ready to make an open it to public comment and now

1209
01:48:09,380 --> 01:48:13,900
we'll close it to public comment I moved that we appoint a subcommittee made up of

1210
01:48:13,900 --> 01:48:21,040
Councilmember Edwards and Councilmember Haigley to review the applications for the vacancy on the Arts and Culture Commission second

1211
01:48:21,840 --> 01:48:35,880
We'll call Luke, please. Councilmember Edwards. Yes. Councilmember Haigley. Yes. Councilmember Kelly. Yes. Vice Mayor Herod. Yes. Mayor Mitchell. Yes. Thank you. And thank you for volunteering you guys. I appreciate that. I feel like your look was

1212
01:48:37,540 --> 01:48:39,720
It was, sorry about that.

1213
01:48:40,880 --> 01:48:44,660
So now we're on to new business which we have done.

1214
01:48:45,400 --> 01:48:50,920
And council reports on matters of interest occurring since previous regular meeting expense

1215
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:52,320
reimbursement reports.

1216
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:53,720
It would like to start us off.

1217
01:48:56,900 --> 01:48:57,300
Nice to meet you.

1218
01:48:57,700 --> 01:48:58,600
That's kind of a long list.

1219
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:04,680
It's been a little while, it's been a little while, it's just completed the week without

1220
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:10,260
driving challenge, which was pretty great. It was nice to be out on the bike. I did

1221
01:49:10,260 --> 01:49:15,980
omit to a couple of car rides, but most of the meetings and appointments and errands,

1222
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:21,500
I was able to accomplish walking and biking. In fact, I finished up, even though it was over

1223
01:49:21,500 --> 01:49:26,940
by walking in the evening tonight. I happened to coincide with both my kids getting their license,

1224
01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:31,620
so they're going to pick me up tonight. Anyway, that was a great experience. I'm glad

1225
01:49:31,620 --> 01:49:35,640
of the on the biking community primarily

1226
01:49:35,640 --> 01:49:39,320
and public transportation people put this event forward.

1227
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:43,440
So that we can kind of do some hands-on research

1228
01:49:43,440 --> 01:49:47,340
on non-automobile transportation.

1229
01:49:48,680 --> 01:49:51,660
Boss Creek cleanup was a fantastic turnout.

1230
01:49:52,100 --> 01:49:54,340
Great cleanup, excellent event.

1231
01:49:54,620 --> 01:49:57,660
We'll probably be celebrating that here soon.

1232
01:49:58,020 --> 01:50:00,260
So no need to go into that,

1233
01:50:00,260 --> 01:50:08,060
but I definitely enjoyed it. I went to the Sunday rally, celebrating the potential solar projects in

1234
01:50:08,060 --> 01:50:14,400
Hillsburg and it was exciting, it was inspiring and looking forward to seeing more in that direction

1235
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:21,340
as time goes on. Visited the art fair had a lot of great conversations and it was just a beautiful day

1236
01:50:21,340 --> 01:50:28,840
in the plaza for art and community. I also did the library advisory board meeting.

1237
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:40,100
So it's kind of a recap on the changes there and some sort of internal changes in how that group is going to operate, which was exciting.

1238
01:50:41,060 --> 01:50:50,640
The design Heelsberg event was a number of different events that happened in Heelsberg and they happy to report had a great turnout.

1239
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And tons of people come to Hillsburg, many of whom stayed here or just visited and went to the

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variety of different meds at. It was quite a few different things that they did, talks,

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01:51:02,760 --> 01:51:07,540
tours, and so on. I was lucky to get a sneak peek at the Foley Center, which was pretty awesome.

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So we can all look forward to that, but that was part of it.

1243
01:51:11,980 --> 01:51:19,060
A reach for home fundraiser, very meaningful, don't need to touch on that too much since we had

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01:51:19,060 --> 01:51:25,660
presentation tonight, but I was glad to be able to participate, also participated in the

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01:51:25,660 --> 01:51:33,120
word family blood donation event at the fire department. So they had a great turnout,

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01:51:33,120 --> 01:51:41,400
so really lovely to see everybody in the community come out and donate blood on behalf of their child

1247
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:49,400
and grandson Liam. Went to the Marcy Basera school fundraiser at the high school the other day,

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01:51:49,580 --> 01:51:55,220
huge turnout for that too, really vibrant scene there that I think back when I was in high school

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01:51:55,220 --> 01:52:00,760
and the continuation school was out on the outskirts of the main campus and now they're very

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01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:06,160
deeply integrated. It's thriving community, it's doing great things for great kids and so I was

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01:52:06,160 --> 01:52:11,780
happy to participate in that. He goes for high school football game, disappointing outcome,

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01:52:12,380 --> 01:52:19,360
great time, great weather. I had to see a lot of fun to build there and then also had

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01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:23,380
a chance to go to the planning commission meeting, which was interesting to attend. Every

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01:52:23,380 --> 01:52:26,300
once in a while, I get to pop in on one of those. So, there you have it.

1255
01:52:27,140 --> 01:52:28,700
Thank you. Ron, do you want to go?

1256
01:52:29,620 --> 01:52:35,260
Yeah. I went to a really very heartfelt event for the individual family support network.

1257
01:52:35,260 --> 01:52:42,580
work that they had, and it really ties into the senior week our homeless and comments

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01:52:42,580 --> 01:52:49,800
that Councilman Kelly made that the fastest growing homeless segment are women, seniors.

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01:52:50,940 --> 01:52:56,660
And it's really heartbreaking to see that these women have been supporting their families

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01:52:56,660 --> 01:52:59,840
their whole life and then feel that they're a burden and end up on the street.

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01:53:00,460 --> 01:53:04,440
And so it's nice to see that they've got a good program working for that.

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01:53:04,440 --> 01:53:11,440
There were another member, a number of council members from other cities that were attended this, so I think they'll have good support going forward.

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But I attended.

1264
01:53:14,040 --> 01:53:15,080
Thank you for that.

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01:53:16,280 --> 01:53:17,220
Council Member Hengley.

1266
01:53:18,860 --> 01:53:21,480
Yeah, a couple things I wanted to report on.

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01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:29,720
I attended the Business Alliance Sonoma County breakfast in Santa Rosa where Eddie Cummins from smart was the guest speaker.

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01:53:29,720 --> 01:53:35,920
and if I miss anything up, you can fill in the gaps, but a couple things that I wanted

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01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:42,040
to kind of report out that really, I mean, we're all getting excited about the smart

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01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:48,780
train coming, but what he, there are a number of things that he pointed out and he used

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01:53:48,780 --> 01:53:56,040
the term, the Windsor effect, and that's, you know, really changing, you know, which stations

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01:53:56,040 --> 01:54:02,200
are the busiest stations where it used to be this is where I might need your help, it's like in

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01:54:02,200 --> 01:54:08,780
Petaluma and now the Santa Rosa South station is the made downtown is the busier one and it's

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01:54:08,780 --> 01:54:16,080
kind of shifted things in terms of where the demand is. The other interesting stat was he touched

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01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:23,100
quite a bit on how since COVID and working from home and everything else and we've seen this with

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01:54:23,100 --> 01:54:29,140
the freeway kind of the hub up around the carpool hours, where people's work schedules

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01:54:29,140 --> 01:54:31,460
are not the same as they've traditionally been.

1278
01:54:32,160 --> 01:54:37,900
All the plannings, you know, typically been nine to five jobs and how do you accommodate

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01:54:38,560 --> 01:54:39,180
around that.

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01:54:40,160 --> 01:54:48,080
And, you know, the peak use for the smart train is actually the 223 in the afternoon train,

1281
01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:53,100
which was, you know, some of those are really interesting things.

1282
01:54:53,240 --> 01:54:55,400
Here's, we kind of look at different things.

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01:54:56,400 --> 01:54:59,240
The path has had over blank users.

1284
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:00,540
I think the number is a million.

1285
01:55:01,160 --> 01:55:01,700
That's not, yeah.

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Million users.

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And I think I want to keep highlighting that

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01:55:06,060 --> 01:55:07,980
when it's going to be great to have the train here.

1289
01:55:08,060 --> 01:55:09,680
But to be able to just, you know,

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01:55:09,740 --> 01:55:11,740
bike and have that access, a direct shot,

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01:55:12,020 --> 01:55:13,980
that's often, you know, over the highway.

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01:55:14,120 --> 01:55:17,080
Those are like some really big things that are going to have a big impact on us.

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01:55:17,700 --> 01:55:23,720
locally here in Yieldsburden. And then for seniors, you know, I asked a question

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01:55:23,720 --> 01:55:28,340
about, you know, the seniors and students have been free. Is there a, you know,

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01:55:28,420 --> 01:55:33,420
plan to kind of phase that out as, you know, things go along. And one of the

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01:55:33,420 --> 01:55:38,040
things he mentioned with the seniors was the biggest barrier for them riding the

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01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:43,760
train isn't so much paying, but it's the technology. Like don't make me use an

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01:55:43,760 --> 01:55:51,760
app. So there's some interesting things that I'm, you know, so anyway. And then the final thing that

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01:55:51,760 --> 01:55:56,200
somebody asked a question about the diesel trains and really the future is an electric for those

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01:55:56,200 --> 01:56:02,180
trains. It's really looking at hydrogen, which kind of brings me to my next report out, which is

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related to the Lodi Energy Center and the hydrogen hub and just want to give a quick little update.

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So as everybody knows, heelsberg is a participant in the NCPA's Lodi Energy Center,

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01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:19,140
which is currently among the cleanest and most efficient gas-fired power system in the nation.

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01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:29,580
The Loda Energy Center is a shovel ready hydrogen project which will extend the life of the plant by transitioning to a hydrogen blend,

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01:56:29,580 --> 01:56:35,680
then ultimately 100% hydrogen-powered electricity generation, which is going to be huge for California.

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01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:42,420
The Innovative Loday Energy Center Hydrogen Project would use reclaimed water, which is right next to the property,

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01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:47,800
and curtailed otherwise wasted renewable resources like excess solar to produce the hydrogen.

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01:56:48,060 --> 01:56:54,780
So California has a real big problem where we have so much solar that it is just wasted in the middle of the day.

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And so having a hydrogen project, we'd be able to harness that energy that would otherwise just be wasted to create and generate hydrogen.

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This was a big part, the Lodi Energy Center hydrogen project was a Tier 1 project in the

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01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:18,360
Arches California Hydrogen Hub which was awarded $1.2 billion in federal funding through

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01:57:18,360 --> 01:57:23,580
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of that $35 million in federal funding was

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slated specifically for the Lodi Energy Project and this is something that we've worked on

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01:57:28,340 --> 01:57:31,920
I'm going back to DC multiple times over the last four years.

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The grant funds were intended to support the acquisition of an electrolyzer to create

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01:57:38,320 --> 01:57:40,280
hydrogen at the Lodi Energy Center.

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Last week, the Department of Energy revoked funding for several hubs, including the grants

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01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:52,400
for the arches and funding for the Lodi Energy Center Hydrogen Project as part of a widespread

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01:57:52,400 --> 01:57:55,240
termination of clean energy projects across the country.

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01:57:55,240 --> 01:58:01,100
This is a very important project for the city of Heelsburg and our region as it continued

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01:58:01,100 --> 01:58:04,980
to transition to predominantly clean energy resources in California.

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So what I want to add is we're confident that the Loda Energy Hydrogen Project will go

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01:58:12,220 --> 01:58:18,100
forward in the future and NCPA will continue to diligently explore opportunities to work

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01:58:18,100 --> 01:58:20,620
with policymakers to support this critical project.

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01:58:20,620 --> 01:58:33,620
So, like, with anything in government, we've had the, you know, our aquifer storage and recovery wells, you know, things kind of go, and I think it's really important when you're looking at something that the key work here is shovel ready.

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01:58:34,620 --> 01:58:43,040
We're way farther down the line at the Loda Energy Center than a hypothetical project that still has to go through the permitting process.

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01:58:43,040 --> 01:58:56,780
And then finally, this is kind of a related note, but assembly member Chris Rogers, he is going to be hosting a, he's the chair of the select committee on climate innovation.

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And he's going to be hosting one of his committee meetings here, hearing at the city council chambers.

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01:59:04,600 --> 01:59:26,960
13th or 14th, I think he's working with staff to kind of nail that down, and the topic will include green hives, so that's something that we're going to be able to have this discussion here, so that would be November 13th or 14th or whatever our staff figures out what the, what the day is and what works, so that's it from my report. Thank you.

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Thank you for that. I'm always impressed that you're so optimistic always, and I hope

1331
01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:36,780
you're right. I have to be. Yeah, I know. I hope you're right. I'll remember Kelly.

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01:59:37,100 --> 01:59:43,880
I'll be quick. So I attended the FOSCRETE cleanup, another amazing community event. The Cubs

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01:59:43,880 --> 01:59:50,660
Gouts troop really showed up big and really proud of their efforts this year, led by, I don't

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want to give away this view, not that anybody is still tuning in at this hour, but it was

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01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:57,080
is also wonderful to see one of their true.

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Council members who was involved with the group so he was able to join us as well along with so many members of our our department team who gave the safety talk and others. So thank you for our city staff for being there. And I was able to attend the Alliance Medical Center annual event where I saw Councilmember Higley and I just feel like we have such a gem of a clinic here in Healdsburg that we should be so proud of. It's a city-owned site as well and so really just remarkable work that they're doing in support of our community.

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and was able to attend the State Boatino Community event

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that Locienne hosts every year

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02:00:36,300 --> 02:00:38,820
and the statistics and information they shared

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is remarkable, it was a very uplifting event

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02:00:41,040 --> 02:00:43,880
they brought into nationally recognized keynote speakers,

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one of whom started Voto Latino

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02:00:47,020 --> 02:00:49,120
and she grew up in Geyserville

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02:00:49,120 --> 02:00:50,620
and it's like a nationwide organization

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02:00:50,620 --> 02:00:55,420
that has advised presidents and really impactful work

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02:00:55,420 --> 02:00:57,840
and she's from our community, which I had no idea.

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02:00:58,460 --> 02:01:16,840
Also attended the blood drive and donated blood at the fire department in honor of the word family attended the reach for home annual event and the YWCA annual event and somehow found time to also go to SETCA today one of the projects that we approved was the $500,000

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02:01:19,160 --> 02:01:22,260
for the drag creek road interchange design.

1349
02:01:22,640 --> 02:01:23,800
So that's something we've been talking about.

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02:01:23,940 --> 02:01:25,660
We put forward in the last funding cycle.

1351
02:01:25,920 --> 02:01:28,740
And then today it was officially awarded

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02:01:28,740 --> 02:01:29,780
and is moving forward.

1353
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:30,980
So that's kind of the phase,

1354
02:01:31,340 --> 02:01:34,340
phase zero, not even phase one of that project.

1355
02:01:34,340 --> 02:01:36,460
So exciting things to see moving forward.

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02:01:37,100 --> 02:01:37,620
Thanks.

1357
02:01:38,060 --> 02:01:38,360
Awesome.

1358
02:01:38,640 --> 02:01:39,500
Lots of good things.

1359
02:01:39,960 --> 02:01:42,320
I also attended the reach for home fundraiser.

1360
02:01:42,460 --> 02:01:43,860
And I got an email today.

1361
02:01:43,860 --> 02:01:49,180
I think they said they raised about $215,000 at that event, so that's good.

1362
02:01:50,740 --> 02:01:54,020
YWCA fundraiser at McRosty Wine, we had never been out there before.

1363
02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:54,880
Wow.

1364
02:01:55,540 --> 02:01:56,460
If you haven't been, go.

1365
02:01:56,680 --> 02:01:57,240
It's beautiful.

1366
02:01:58,040 --> 02:02:00,660
And it was a really, I think it was a successful event.

1367
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:03,840
Madeline is the one who put that on.

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02:02:04,760 --> 02:02:12,940
I also was able to welcome the participants in the Design Heelsburg's reception at little

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saying on Saturday. So that was nice. A lot of really great people and creative people and

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02:02:20,290 --> 02:02:25,040
that was just one of their many events. It was right after they did the Foley Pavilion thing,

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I think. So that was fun. And then I'm heading tomorrow to Long Beach for the League of Cities Annual

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02:02:31,680 --> 02:02:38,840
Conference. And the week after that, I'm going to Sacramento for my second California Department

1373
02:02:38,840 --> 02:02:42,040
and if consumer affairs veterinary medical board meeting.

1374
02:02:42,700 --> 02:02:44,620
So hopefully I'll know what I'm doing

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02:02:44,620 --> 02:02:45,800
when I get there this time.

1376
02:02:46,360 --> 02:02:49,560
So, and then don't forget the costume parade.

1377
02:02:49,740 --> 02:02:52,440
I'm the MC, Jeff's gonna be one of the judges.

1378
02:02:53,100 --> 02:02:55,540
I think Jason's gonna be one of the judges.

1379
02:02:55,900 --> 02:02:59,560
So, I think Talia as well.

1380
02:02:59,960 --> 02:03:01,780
So it should be a fun time.

1381
02:03:02,180 --> 02:03:04,000
It's the best event of the year, I think.

1382
02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:17,740
and I'm not at all biased, but yeah, so that's it, and so with that we can adjourn the meeting at 832 or 3.