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Councillor Winsor, water district. Town, council roll call, please. Council member Leap. Here. Council

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member Salmon. Present. Council member Wal. Here. Vice Mayor Potter. Here. And Mayor

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Renoza. Present. And I'm here with our honorary youth mayor of Olin, Renoza, Osegara. And

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now I will read our unity statement. In the heart of Winsor, we stand together bound by the

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strength of our relationships, the spirit of service,

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and the pursuit of shared purpose.

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Consistent with our values of community and diversity,

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we embrace and acknowledge our relationships

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with people in history.

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We honor the land that sustains us,

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recognizing its history, its growth,

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and the development that shapes our modern community.

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Through careful stewardship and planning,

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we build a town that balances progress

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with preservation, ensuring Windsor remains

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a place of belonging, goodwill, and unwavering purpose.

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It is our commitment to respect cultures, make space for connection, honor history, and

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create a deep appreciation for our whole community.

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Honorary Mayor, can you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

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Yes.

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Oh, it's Pledge of Holdings.

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That's it.

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That.

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The United States of America.

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And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God in the visible with liberty

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and justice.

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You did a great job. Thank you very much. And now I'd like to ask if there's any changes

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to the agenda? No changes that I'm aware of, Mayor. All right, perfect. And now I'd like to report

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out of a closed session we had on September 2nd. There was a conference with our legal counsel on a

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A couple of items, so please bear with me.

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We have an existing litigation with bourbon and birdies

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investigation LLC versus the town of Windsor.

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There was another existing litigation

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with Evergreen Windsor, MHP LLC versus the town of Windsor

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at the Sinema County Superior Court,

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conference with legal counsel for another existing litigation,

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Evergreen Windsor and HP,

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town of Windsor with the United States Court

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of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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and then there was an anticipated litigation initiation of a litigation

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pursuant to paragraph 4, subject of section 54956.9, one potential case.

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The closed session adjourned at 907 with no reportable action taken.

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And now we're going to start with our agenda items in section 7, presentations

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and proclamation. And first we're going to have a presentation for our Windsor

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day parade. And we have a recreation division manager.

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Is that his presenting?

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Hello Mayor and Council. I'm the Recreation Division Manager, Nell Hermann, but I'm

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really here to introduce the Kiwanis Club of Windsor. They're here to talk to you

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about the Windsor Day Parade and sort of passing of the torch of the previous

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Duke and Duchess and the new Duke and Duchess.

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Madam Mayor, Council members, thank you for allowing the Quantice Club of Windsor

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sign to speak at this meeting.

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My name is Sherry Ruben and I along with my fellow Club members that are in the audience

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are here to announce the 2026 Duke and Duches for the Windsor Day Parade to be held on Saturday, September 26th, 2026.

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And we'll be retiring the 2025 Duke.

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Roberto, I know.

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He's anxious to move on, and the Dutch is unfortunately at 10.45 this morning, she sent

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me an email stating she would not be able to attend, but that's Tiffany Holberg.

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The first duke was 1982, and they added the duchess in 1983. The Windsor-Wannis club started

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organizing the parade in the mid-1980s, where they were tasked with selecting the duke and

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duchess based on their community service. Nominations from the community are taken,

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and the individuals are selected based on their contributions to the community.

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Roberto.

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Richard.

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No.

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Nice to meet you.

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Can you come up?

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Where's the hat?

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I'm with the hat.

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Where's the hat?

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Where's the hat?

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Roberto,

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educated our children

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and the Windsor and Hillsburg school district.

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the J.C. and through tutoring. He raised funds to provide scholarships. He

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created clubs. He saw the potential in young people and helped them achieve

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their potential. Richard?

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Thank you, I travel time.

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So for those watching at home or listening, they're passing around a picture from the last parade and a

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plaque day up here. We're going to get a picture. Somebody wants a picture. Sorry. Okay. Are we done with?

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Okay. No.

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Okay. Okay. So say here. Okay.

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This year's Duke and Duchess are the first couple

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that we've had since the 1990s. This means their husband and wife. This year's Duke and Duchess

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is Larry and Monica McCabe, barely new to Windsor, and boy is Windsor Lucky.

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Would you like to come up

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and will Larry

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and Monica raise their children in

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Sunnyvale, and they moved to Windsor in the spring of 2020 to be close to

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their grandchildren. And I bet you close you were because that was right in

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COVID, right? Two weeks to slow the spread. Two weeks before the spread. Well, we're still

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lucky to have you. They met in college and have been married for 41 years. Their idea

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of good retirement is the opportunity to give back to the community and boy have they. Since

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moving to Windsor, Larry and Monica have both been active in the Rotary Club where Larry

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served as president and Monica chaired the service committee. Making a great team, they

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have led the community circle drive for the past three years because Larry says he

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led it, but he couldn't do it without Monica. So I had to add that, I'm sorry Larry.

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Larry

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can coordinate a local mills on wheels, delivery route, both he and Monica volunteer to

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deliver as drivers for the day, Windsor Wheels and for the Windsor citizens for a simple

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gesture. Larry currently chairs the Windsor Service Center advisory council and our commission

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and previously served on the Sonoma County Aging and Disability Commission.

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He volunteers doing taxes for low income individuals.

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He is also volunteered for three years at the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

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He's participated in Leadership Windsor, and he's an active leader at the Windsor High School Interact Club.

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you forgot to add that.

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Thank you.

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She shared the community circle fundraiser, Freaky Halloween, for two years.

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She's an

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As a former preschool teacher, Monica loves to volunteer at her granddaughter's classrooms at Maddie Washborne,

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and she helps teach religion at St. John Baptist Church in Hillsburg.

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The Quantis Club of Windsor cannot think of a more deserving community members than Monica and Larry.

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As Duke and Duchess, you will preside over the 2026 Windsor Day Parade and we

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encourage you to wear the top hat and the tiara that you're going to be

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presented tonight for an entire year. The community needs to know what you do for

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for the Windsor Day community, so thank you.

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So, Bertha,

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would you like to clean down there?

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Oh, there you go, but it is.

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Yeah, do it that way.

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Okay, all right.

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And Monica, I present to you to get it off me.

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Oh, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And closing the Windsor Day Parade would like to thank the current council as well as previous council for their grants which allowed Windsor to have our small town parade.

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Thank you for your time tonight.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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And now we have item 7.2.

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Councilmember Sammon, if you could read this proclamation.

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give it a go. I proclamation the town council, the town of Windsor proclaiming the week of September 19th through the 27th as Creek Week and Pollution Prevention Week.

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Throughout much of California, including the Russian River Watershed, cities, counties and other stewardship organizations recognized the 3rd week of September as Creek Week and throughout the United States, the 3rd week of September is also recognized as National Pollution Prevention Week.

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Our pollution prevention practices are inherently linked to the health of our watershed lands

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and waterways, and the town of Windsor Stormwater Management Program supports the reduction

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of pollution by providing our communities with knowledge to be effective stewards of the

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Russian River watershed.

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Pollution in the form of trash, debris, and sediment from construction and many land use activities

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all have the potential to degrade the quality of life and the quality of resources within the Russian River watershed.

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The Russian River watershed along with its nearly 1500 square miles of land, 238 creeks and tributaries,

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and approximately 360,000 residents are important resources to the people of Sonoma and Mendocino County.

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During Creek Week and Pollution Prevention Week, Creek River and Ocean cleanup campaigns will take place throughout Sonoma and Mendocino counties.

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The town will partner in the 40th annual Russian River Watershed Cleanup event on Saturday, September 19th.

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Where all town residents and employees are encouraged to volunteer and participate in the trash cleanup event in Windsor, or one of our other Creek Week activities throughout Sonoma County.

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Now, therefore, it is resolved that the town council, the town of Windsor, does hear

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Brightbow claim the week of September 19th through the 27th as Creek Week and Pollution

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Prevention Week.

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And we have someone from the staff to Mr. Perez.

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Yes.

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You could take that first page off.

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Pull the first page off.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much, council. I have here a aerial majorana from Russian River Keeper. Russian River Keeper has been an amazing partner. Helping organize the Creek Week cleanups every year. I just want to say thank you so much for your continued support over the years to raise awareness and continue our operations in supporting the health of the watershed and

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And just a reminder, our stormwater co-permitis have a great resource for pollution prevention,

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and that's streets2creaks.org, so there's a lot of good practices you can look up for

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your home or business on streets2creaks.org, so thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hi there. My name is Ariel. I'm with Russian River Keeper. I'm the community engagement manager over there. And I just wanted to come and thank you all for supporting the 40th annual Russian River watershed cleanup that's coming up this Saturday.

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As part of the state coastal cleanup day and all the other clean ups going on all around the state.

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It's a really big deal for us because it's the last chance we get to really clean up the entire watershed before the winter rains come in.

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After the summer and everyone's had lots of fun out on the river and throughout the watershed.

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It's just the perfect time to get as much trash as we can before the winter rains.

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So last year we actually were able to clean up 13 tons of trash across the watershed and had 525 volunteers come out to help do that.

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This year we're on track to have 570 volunteers.

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One of the cleanups in Windsor that we're doing has 40 people signed up and so we're

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really excited to get everybody involved.

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It's a really fun event just to get outside, meet your neighbors, everybody else who's

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trying to help keep the watershed clean.

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So it'll be a really great day if anyone's interested in coming out.

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We'll have a main hub at Healdsburg Memorial Beach if you wanted to just come and sign up

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that day. You can or you can check out online the town of Windsor cleanup. But we really

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appreciate the town of Windsor being part of this event and sponsoring and providing

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some funds for the supplies and volunteer appreciation and everything that goes into

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this big event. So I just wanted to come say thank you for your support and anyone else who's

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interested in coming along please help out. Before the winter rains cuff, thanks. Thank you.

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and now I'm going to have the vice mayor read a proclamation in English. This is a proclamation

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of the town council of the town of Windsor proclaiming September 15th, 2026 through October 15th,

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2026 as Hispanic Heritage Month. Whereas we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15th

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to October 15th to recognize and honor the invaluable achievements and profound contributions

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of Hispanic Americans who have enriched our nation's history and inspire generations of success.

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And this important observation began in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President

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Lyndon B. Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to a 30-day period

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formally enacted into law on August 17, 1988.

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The theme for 2026 is honoring the past, inspiring the future.

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And whereas the Hispanic community's presence is woven into the fabric of our town, reflected

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In the countless business owners, dedicated educators, skilled medical professionals, brave

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first responders, compassionate caretakers, civic leaders, and talented artists who contribute

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to the vitality and character of our region, and whereas the diverse cultures and rich

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histories of the Hispanic community have continually strengthened the American cultural landscape,

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encouraging greater understanding, curiosity, and appreciation across all generations,

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and whereas the town of Windsor is proud of the growing diversity of our community and

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encourage us all residents to celebrate the valuable contributions Hispanic

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Americans have made to the growth prosperity and well-being of our region and

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to learn more about the rich cultures and traditions that define this

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heritage. Now therefore be at resolve that the town council of the town of Windsor

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in deep appreciation of the vibrant Hispanic population within our community

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hereby officially proclaims September 15th through October 15th 2026

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as Hispanic Heritage Month.

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And now it's my honor to do the best I can

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and read it as in Spanish.

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Proclamation del Consejo del Pueblo de Windsor

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por la que se declara del 15 de septiembre,

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al 15 de octubre del 2026,

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como mes de la Jerencia Hispana,

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considerando que el mes de la Jerencia Hispana

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se selvebra del 15 de septiembre, al 15 de octubre.

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Disparaciones de los ispanoméricanos, quienes han enriquecido la historia de nuestra nación

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inspirado a generaciones, y considerando que esta celebración tiene sus raíces en 1978,

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cuando el Congreso de los Estados Unidos alteró la proclamación de la Semana de Ejerencia,

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que se celebra anualmente del quince de septiembre al quince de octubre,

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considerando que la comunidad Hispana forma parte integral de nuestra ciudad

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y estar representante por inúmeres empresas,

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señores educadores dedicados a la comunidad Hispana,

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profesionales de salud, cuidadores, compasivos, líderes cívicos y talentos artistas que

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controlan a la vitalidad y carácter de nuestra región. Considerarando que la diversas

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culturas y la rica historia de la comunidad Hispana hay fortalezado continuamente al panorama

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cultural, es, o es, o es, o es, o es, o es, o es, o es, o es, o es.

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Estados Unidos.

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Formentado.

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Un mayor entendimiento, que uracidad y

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apreción de entrató a las generaciones y

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considerando que el pueblo de Windsor se

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engoruse de creciente diversidad de nuestra

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comunidad y se anima a todas las

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residentes a celebrar las valiosas

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contrivaciones que los ispanos americanos hayne hecho al crecimiento la prosperidad y el bienestar de nuestra

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región. Así como aprender más sobre las ricas culturas, tradiciones y historias que conforman la

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gerencia a hispana. Por lo tanto, se resuelve que la siguiente que el consejo del pueblo de Windsor

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reconocimiento a la importancia, las conturbaciones y al legado de la comunidad

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Hispana, proclama oficialmente el periodo del 15 de diciembre, el 15 de octubre,

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de 2026, como el mes de Gerencia, Hispana.

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Y quiero introducir la títica de Cali Calmeca, Pedro de Luna,

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para aceptar esta proclamación en nuestra parte.

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Good evening, little nervous because it's the first time here,

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but I'm very proud to be here.

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It's a very big honor.

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I feel like I'm representing a lot of people

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and just a short who am I?

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The son of an immigrant who came to this country

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and just didn't have anything started out with the family business.

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And the same year he lost his job

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and home, I was a high school drawback.

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solves. Su vida. Es

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una buena bouca en la cooled.

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BuenNY.

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Yo con un gran ajo.

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En Wenzher, y ahora estamos

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hablando de que crookedes

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dobro de la cara de la mano del

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Nín.

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De que scored dos y dos y

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que nos dejamos de haber

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vuelto esta encargado y

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En el dinero y hacer todo el

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dinero.

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Tal vez en un restaurador,

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mi brother, They motivated me to go back to school, started the JC and study

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and I'm proud to say I joined them, all nine of us, we all graduated from a university

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and I'm proud to be part of that group.

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After graduating, I had the opportunity to be

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a teacher, anywhere I wanted, I was like okay, I'm a male teacher, I'm a 2% or I can go anywhere I want

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but I chose Windsor because if Gallicameca, it was a school where I taught about culture,

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My Culture, my parents culture and I love it.

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I've been there for 26 years working, teaching, enjoying and I have the honor of being selected

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Pressd19.com Democrats teacher of SBNO for 2026.

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It was a major honor, and I bring that to you, but when they look us up and they're looking,

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¿Qué es el mejor teacher?

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Es que voy a decir, Winsor.

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Y vamos a tener ese edad.

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Eso es raro.

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Es para el hogar.

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Y yo no puedo llegar a ese edad,

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sino que el gran teacher de Acálica Meca,

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que hemos trabajado desde el beginning de Joe Cooper,

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que era mi primer teacher,

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ahora estoy trabajando con los grados de Amanda Horsburg.

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Y gran literatura.

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Mi bosque es encima de ahí.

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Mi dos bosques es encima de ahí.

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¡Woohoo!

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Mi tercero.

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Mi tercero es otro.

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pero es un gran...

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There's all there, too. But there's great leadership, just great people I love working for, and I love working for this town. I love working for these people that are just great and have the same passion. Same passion as I do.

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I just come representing the son of an immigrant. And I want to thank you. And we, we make it. We make it. And now, after that, we continue to live town, this beautiful town. We buy our homes here. We live here. We celebrate here. Thank you so much. Before small little events at the church,

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or at the Wentajam, we would have these little small Latino events and now the

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town of Windsor has done such a wonderful job with so much Windsor and holding

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these big events where people from out of Windsor come here to party and have a

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good time and be respectful and enjoy the language and enjoy the town. I invite you

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all this Saturday. We will have a celebration and they have a little award for me

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but I'm gonna be doing the same thing. I'm doing here representing the

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sense of immigrants that make it and today I'm also proud to say my own daughter graduated

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from San Francisco State so the tradition continues, the tradition continues.

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Just thank you.

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Thank you, Windsor, for doing this celebration and honoring this group of individuals who

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come here and just we really try to work hard and represent ourselves well.

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We live in two worlds and two cultures and with that all we can say is gracias, much

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just gracias. Thank you so much and let's party Saturday. Yeah. Can we take your picture?

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Can we take your picture?

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You're going to, you're going to, you're going to, you say we'll

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put one. Hi

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everyone. Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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our next item 7.4 housing land trust of the North Bay Inclusionary Home Ownership Update.

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Hello,

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everyone. My name is Caitlin Garfield. I serve as the housing director for housing land trust of the North Bay.

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Thank you to Mayor Renosa, Town Council, and staff for having me here tonight.

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And I'm here to, first of all, express our thanks to the town for your partnership

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on creating affordable home ownership opportunities for our local workforce, and then also to highlight

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some of those accomplishments that have just occurred.

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Sorry to mind you, thank you.

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So housing land trust is a nonprofit established in 2002, and our mission is to create

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and steward affordable home ownership across the Northern Bay area.

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There are currently 161 permanently affordable homes in the program,

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and these homes have served 201 families so far.

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We currently have three homes in Windsor with more under construction,

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and there are also 75 homes in the pipeline across Sonoma and Napa valleys.

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Thank you, Kim.

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So the way that our program works is that it is all about the paycheck.

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The price of the homes are tied to the incomes of the community.

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So the price of the home, that the home owner purchases is affordable to that home owner.

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The land underneath the home is then entered into the land trust.

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And then that home owner agrees to lease that land from the land trust with the stipulation

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that that home remains affordable in perpetuity to that same income level.

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To do this, we partner with the town and developers. The town sets housing policies to benefit

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its constituents, the developers build the homes, and housing land trust qualifies the eligible buyers,

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ensures the town's policies are being met, educates and stewards those homeowners throughout the process,

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secures the legal and financing mechanisms to put the steel in place, and then

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protects the unit and stewards that homeowner and perpetuity.

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And the

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policy used to create these types of homes is called the Towns Inclusionary

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That's a side apportion of homes to be sold at the below market rate price, and then increase

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the number of affordable units in the community. Housing land trust then stewards these units,

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and keeps them affordable in perpetuity. And so these are some of the recent projects

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that we have created with the town, and I want to give a big thanks to Planner Kimboe and

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her team for, you know, doing all the work on this. This is Old Redwood Village, and

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this is going to include three units serving moderate income households. These homes were

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built by writer homes, and the families just recently moved in in this summer of 2026.

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This was also a really special project for us, because we celebrated our 200th family served.

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And then an upcoming project is hummingbird.

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This will have two units serving moderate income households.

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These homes are being built by Christopherson builders, and they are currently under construction

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expected either next year or 2028.

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And each of these homes remains affordable in perpetuity, which means that one home can

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serve homeowner after homeowner.

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And so therefore we are able to really maximize the impact that one home can have for the

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community and also ensure that this benefit that is created extends to homeowners both present

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and future.

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And for example, a home that was created through the program back in 2005

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as now on its fifth homeowner and each time that home has been sold it has remained

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as affordable to every subsequent homeowner as it did to that initial homeowner.

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So what we are accomplishing is partnering to steward a finite resource that serves as a permanent subsidy to individual families for generation after generation, making home ownership a reality for the workforce in our community, delivering that stewardship to families and that support to ensure that they are being successful homeowners creating community wealth by preserving the land that will then benefit the community in perpetuity.

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and strengthening the fabric of our community

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by providing our workforce a secure place to live.

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Thank you again for your partnership

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and I of course welcome any questions

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or comments from the council.

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Thank you very much.

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Can you tell us real quickly if people are interested

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in applying what's the process?

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Absolutely. Thank you, Mayor Renosa.

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So if anyone is interested in applying for the program,

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they can go to our website,

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which is housinglandtrust.org.

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on there, there is a quick three-page application.

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All you have to do is send it in with two recent pay stubs,

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and then submit it.

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We will see if you're a match to any homes

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we currently have available,

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or we'll also keep you in mind

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for any homes that are coming up through the program.

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So for example, those two homes upcoming in Windsor,

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we can accept applications right now

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and start looking at applications at this time.

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Yes, thank you.

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And question.

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Thank you so much for the presentation.

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You should have a quick question on how this works.

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So if a family purchases the home,

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they stay there and they pay their mortgage.

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And then when they sell the home then and take the equity,

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but the home still stays in the same price range

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that it was initially.

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Great question, thank you.

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So yes, that is exactly right.

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The homeowners are able to build equity

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and in one way by both paying down their mortgage each month.

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So they are reducing their debt

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that they have taken out for the mortgage.

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And then they all are also able to make some appreciation on the home instead of being tied to the general market forces.

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Every home in our program is instead tied to income levels.

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So for example, if from the time that a homeowner purchases the home to when they sell it incomes go up 20%,

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they could sell their home for 20% more, which is a good balance of being able to create that equity for the homeowner,

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which often these homeowners use as a stepping stone to market rate homeownership,

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or also just being able to keep it affordable as well.

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So we're able to balance both of those aspects, both the individual equity building,

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wealth building component, as well as that community benefit of making sure that this home

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stays affordable and perpetuity.

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Any other questions?

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Okay, thank you so much.

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Thank you all.

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All right.

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And now we're moving on to our upcoming town events. Councilmember Leap, can you

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begin with the first one?

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Certainly. The first announcement is the Native Plant

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Seed Propagation. This is on Saturday, September 19, which is upcoming from 10.30 a.m. to 12

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at the Windsor Regional Library.

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In this workshop,

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Starting at 4 o'clock, going to late 30 at the town green, we're going to have an event called El Grito, the Windsor, and celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month. I hope to see you guys out there. All right. We have the 40th annual Russian River watershed cleanup, which is what our presentation was part of. And so Saturday, September 19th from 8 to 10 a.m. hosted by the town of Windsor and the Russian River Keeper. Please register to volunteer by September 15th. It sounds like we can still

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Register at russianriverkeeper.org ord slash events and also we have Creek Week Guided Birdwalk.

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Thursday, September 24th, from 4 to 6 p.m. the walk starts and ends at the Windsor Senior Recreation

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Center. It's hosted by the town of Windsor Stormwater Quality Program and bird experts miles and

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Teresa Tuffley. Space is limited. Please register in advance at tinyurl.com.

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forward slash Windsor Birdwalk. Any questions please call 707-838-539-0 or email at

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stormwater at townofwinsor.ca.gov. Again another reminder the Windsor

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Day Parade this Saturday of no the 26th of September. The parade theme is

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fly me to the moon and the parade begins at 10 a.m. Entries were already due but

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But if you have questions about details, you can visit koaniswinser.org.

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We have a community town hall.

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Understanding measure I is on Wednesday, September 30th at 6 p.m. and we're at the gym.

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Can join us for a community meeting and question and answer session, discuss measure I and

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what it could mean for Windsor's future.

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And you can have more information at townofwinser.ca.gov slash sales tax.

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and then we still have our farmer's markets every Sunday through December 6th, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on

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town green right here on Market Street. Thank you everybody. And then now town manager,

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do you have anything to report off? Thank you Mayor Renosa, John Davis town manager, a couple

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items tonight. First off we had a great meeting here last night. The town hosted a neighborhood

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meeting to discuss the Windsor Creek multi-family housing project and its pre-application form.

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The meeting was well attended, I would say there's 70 people standing remotely filled the chambers and just to discuss the proposed project with the development team and they were here really to listen and take comments from the public at the meeting Gallagher community housing presented a redesign of the project which right off the bat has significantly fewer units of mixed town homes and apartments reduction in the height of the buildings and so that will be available for people to see that that haven't seen it yet.

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So, the town maintains an information page on this project on the town website.

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Community members can request to be added to the interested parties list for updates

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on the project and any public review process as it moves forward.

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Secondly, I'd like to announce that we're happy and excited that we've started with Will

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Dan Company, who is our new code enforcement team.

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They are on, hit the streets this week, started with us last week, got out as early as Monday,

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tackling the list of backlogged code enforcement items and complaints, they'll be starting with the health and safety realm first, but they will be working their way to all the complaints on the list.

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So residents that have filed a complaint and hopefully we have communicated to you that we've been waiting for our new company to start, but they are starting and things will be happening here shortly.

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Councilmember Lee reported to me some good news yesterday as he's our SCTCA board representative.

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He was at the board meeting and the funding recommendations were approved for the $5 million

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that we were up for in this cycle for the underpass and street projects.

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So I want to thank Public Works and Carl, you've read in Alejandro Perez for all their work

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on that.

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They stay on top of those grants to give everything submitted on time.

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It's a lengthy process.

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and so we're happy and thankful to SCTA for your marking those funds for us.

449
00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:25,540
Staff did hold a pre-storm kickoff meeting as we've heard this is the Super El Nino or what they're calling it this week.

450
00:40:00,780 --> 00:40:28,680
Extra sandbags this year, updating all our maps and our emergency reporting process. So all those things that go into the storm season, but this year we're going to do that even more robustly. And that way, if it does develop the way they're saying, then we'll be prepared. And if it doesn't, then we'll be prepared anyway. So I'm happy about that. And just on a nice note, we did get confirmation in a nice picture this week from the staff who went by to check that at the Veterans Village.

451
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:45,440
They did finish the new bus stop awning and so right before the rains here and we get into the wet season there's a nice new bench and bus stop cover there for the veterans to take shelter and when they wait for the bus. That concludes my report. Thank you.

452
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:51,240
Thank you very much. Now I'd like to ask any council members if there's any conflict of interest to declare for tonight.

453
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,880
Okay, seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and open it up now to the public.

454
00:40:56,660 --> 00:41:01,780
Members of the public wishing to speak to the council on any consent calendar item,

455
00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:06,160
or any item not listed of the agenda, may do so at this time.

456
00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:11,300
Pursuant to the Brown Act, the council, is not allowed to consider any issues

457
00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:15,600
or take action on any items, not listed in the agenda during this period,

458
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,280
which is one of the reasons why we ask if you want to say your name.

459
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,260
you may do so. That's an easy way for us to reach out to you to respond to your comment

460
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:30,540
they're going to make, but that's optional. You do have three minutes to speak. Anyone

461
00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:36,020
who wishes to submit anything in writing can do so to this following email, which we

462
00:41:36,020 --> 00:41:43,220
all receive up here, town council at townofwinsor.ca.gov. So anyone wishing to speak may approach

463
00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:47,680
the podium and we do have a new timer up here to my right.

464
00:42:01,770 --> 00:42:07,150
My name is Emil Imman, some of you may know me. I've come here today to voice my

465
00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:12,650
display and also quite frankly discussed with our renewal of the fog cameras. I

466
00:42:12,650 --> 00:42:16,350
understand that on a service level that this may seem like a good thing, you know,

467
00:42:16,590 --> 00:42:22,550
I listened to Greg Puccini's full statement that he did where it helped solve, you

468
00:42:22,550 --> 00:42:26,750
You know, 12 crimes, two of them, he said, in less than 24 hours.

469
00:42:27,550 --> 00:42:31,890
But we need to understand what that is costing us, is costing us our privacy.

470
00:42:32,630 --> 00:42:37,070
At what point does this compromise our fourth amendment rights?

471
00:42:37,970 --> 00:42:40,750
You know, it's, you know, it claims that there's no tracking yet.

472
00:42:40,810 --> 00:42:42,630
The Windsor Police Department gets alerts about it.

473
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:46,170
What stops them from creating some sort of travel patterns?

474
00:42:49,210 --> 00:42:56,830
AI hasn't been fully, we don't know the full capabilities of AI, it's learning, it's

475
00:42:56,830 --> 00:43:01,430
an artificial intelligence, you know, you say that there is no facial recognition, yet

476
00:43:01,430 --> 00:43:06,810
you can give AI the flock cameras a description of a vehicle as in make model color and it

477
00:43:06,810 --> 00:43:12,630
can give you, it's based off of a visual representation, not just the letters of license plate.

478
00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:18,590
So, what's to stop it from learning and progressing to learn how to do facial recognition?

479
00:43:19,830 --> 00:43:25,730
You also said too that it's the same price as non-AI surveillance cameras, so why not

480
00:43:25,730 --> 00:43:26,650
bring those back?

481
00:43:27,870 --> 00:43:33,570
You know, it's, if an NVU haven't heard of a hugging face, I fully suggest that you look

482
00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:40,110
it up because since this hugging face incidence has happened to AI CEOs, Sam Altman as well

483
00:43:40,110 --> 00:43:45,630
is I can't remember the pronounces the last name, AMODI, has called for US labs to slow

484
00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:51,970
their pace on its advancement because it's growing too fast. Two AI researchers also won

485
00:43:51,970 --> 00:43:59,110
with the company Anthropic and another one with the AI Safety Research at Google has quit and

486
00:43:59,110 --> 00:44:07,110
raised concerns due to AI. Again, I'm all for the protection of our town or people, but AI is not

487
00:44:07,110 --> 00:44:12,150
the way to do it. If the police department needs more assistance than then help them find

488
00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:16,910
other ways to do it but not through AI. And also I would like to speak about us

489
00:44:18,010 --> 00:44:23,550
eating ice agents. I understand that there are restrictions to involvement with eating ice.

490
00:44:23,890 --> 00:44:28,450
You may shake your head all you like. You may, you know, that's your choice. You may have

491
00:44:28,450 --> 00:44:31,230
wasted pleasure. I know that your husband works with the police department. I'm sure you have a lot of

492
00:44:31,230 --> 00:44:37,910
inside information about it, you know, they said that, you know, with a research on the ice,

493
00:44:38,250 --> 00:44:42,090
you know, they need a judicial warrant. Ice doesn't need a judicial warrant to get people.

494
00:44:43,310 --> 00:44:48,450
The ice isn't following the rules that people should be. There are killing people. They're

495
00:44:48,450 --> 00:44:53,050
raping people. This isn't, if you've read a history book, you should be able to see the comparisons

496
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:10,820
Not a light statement to make. Read a history book. Please stop it before it's too late. You have the opportunity to do so. Please wrap up. Thank you very

497
00:45:10,820 --> 00:45:14,040
time. Thank you. Anyone else from the public?

498
00:45:17,590 --> 00:45:22,070
Seeing none, I'm going to, okay, I didn't see

499
00:45:22,070 --> 00:45:23,790
anyone lining up behind the podium, so.

500
00:45:26,650 --> 00:45:31,810
Hi, my name is Theresa Hendricks and I live in Councilman

501
00:45:31,810 --> 00:45:38,950
Sam's district and I'm with the Citizens Committee for Yes on Measure I. It stays in Windsor

502
00:45:38,950 --> 00:45:43,930
And I just wanted to come, give you an update and a little appeal.

503
00:45:45,670 --> 00:45:50,010
We are going to be marching in the Windsor Day parade.

504
00:45:51,030 --> 00:45:55,790
And I have watched my grandkids in the parade, but I have never been in the parade.

505
00:45:56,350 --> 00:46:02,550
So supporters of Measure I are going to be marching and we need some people to join us.

506
00:46:02,550 --> 00:46:10,030
So, if anyone really wants to be in a parade and supports measure eye, come on over, join

507
00:46:10,030 --> 00:46:12,390
us at the parade and we'll have a bunch of fun.

508
00:46:12,970 --> 00:46:20,850
You can email us at Windsor is worth it at gmail.com.

509
00:46:20,850 --> 00:46:36,130
You can also check out our website is Yes On I for Windsor.org, and the 4-FOR is not

510
00:46:36,130 --> 00:46:41,090
a numeral, and we would love to see you out there.

511
00:46:41,610 --> 00:46:48,090
We have three Zumba instructors and some Zumba dancers, so we know there will be some music

512
00:46:48,090 --> 00:46:54,230
And we know there will be a little bit of dance involved, but we need people to just walk.

513
00:46:54,790 --> 00:46:58,610
You don't have to dance. You can just walk with us.

514
00:46:59,970 --> 00:47:06,930
And so we hope to see you out there. We are out there working. We are a citizen's group. We are your neighbors.

515
00:47:07,850 --> 00:47:13,870
And so we would love to talk to you about the parade and about anything else you want to know about Missouri.

516
00:47:14,590 --> 00:47:16,330
So thank you very much.

517
00:47:16,330 --> 00:47:17,190
Good

518
00:47:24,780 --> 00:47:29,300
evening, Mary Ann Bainbridge-Crowse, and I'm pleased to say I'm also going to be walking

519
00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:31,360
in the parade with the Senior Center.

520
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,940
I'm a Commissioner, and I will be carrying the banner, so I'm looking forward to that.

521
00:47:36,460 --> 00:47:39,680
Second or third year doing that, but that's not why I'm here tonight.

522
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,020
I'm a concerned Windsor Citizen, and I hope you are too.

523
00:47:45,820 --> 00:47:50,780
And as we have been out and about talking to the community, delivering our yard signs,

524
00:47:50,780 --> 00:47:56,540
which I think we delivered about 15 or 20 this week, the main question we're getting

525
00:47:56,540 --> 00:48:00,760
from residents is why this measure has no sunset date.

526
00:48:01,660 --> 00:48:04,740
So I would like to read this to you.

527
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:11,420
The measure states, quote, the tax shall be in effect until ended by the voters, unquote.

528
00:48:12,240 --> 00:48:16,540
What does quote ended and until ended by the voters mean?

529
00:48:16,540 --> 00:48:23,060
It means that the tax would continue indefinitely unless voters took action to end it.

530
00:48:23,380 --> 00:48:28,600
Members of the public would have to spend significant time, effort, and money collecting

531
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:34,280
enough signatures to place a repeal measure on the ballot, and then organize and win a

532
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,940
political campaign to convince wins or voters to end the tax.

533
00:48:39,620 --> 00:48:44,740
Because the Council has no strategy for solving the underlying problems that have resulted

534
00:48:44,740 --> 00:48:50,100
it in the structural deficit. The only thing that's certain is that within a few years,

535
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:56,540
the town will need to even need even more sales tax revenue than measure I would bring

536
00:48:56,540 --> 00:49:01,920
in. And that is best example I can give you that is the city of Santa Rosa has another

537
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:09,800
ballot measure on another measure on the ballot helping their sales tax again. Passing measure

538
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:15,300
I, without an end date, would only encourage the council to put off addressing the issues

539
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:17,760
that led to the deficit in the first place.

540
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:24,540
If anyone wants more information, you can go to Windsor Concerned Citizens, capital A,

541
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:30,220
capital C, capital A, dot org, and our yard signs are available.

542
00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:30,900
Thank you.

543
00:49:39,850 --> 00:49:40,070
Hi.

544
00:49:40,390 --> 00:49:47,530
My name is Annie Lovie, and I'm on record with written requests to the Windsor PD past and

545
00:49:47,530 --> 00:49:54,410
current Windsor Police Chiefs and the Sonoma County Sheriff beginning in 2022

546
00:49:55,330 --> 00:49:59,850
concerning my referral to the Condi Lane International's

547
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:08,240
EAD and noiseway. I represent the Windsor-Mobile Country Club senior citizen park. We are located

548
00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:14,660
between Oakfield Lane on the north and Mitchell Road on the south of Condi Lane. Our community

549
00:50:14,660 --> 00:50:23,380
is home to 336 senior residents who depend on safe access and egress from their homes 24

550
00:50:23,380 --> 00:50:32,880
hours a day. Effective April 26, 2026, the postage speed was reduced from 40 miles per

551
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:39,860
hour to 35 miles per hour from Mitchell to Oakfield with the placement of 435 mile per

552
00:50:39,860 --> 00:50:45,880
hour signs on that stretch of Condi. The good news is we won that battle. The bad news

553
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:51,720
is that it's had virtually no effect on those who continue to ignore the posting.

554
00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:59,460
I am one of 14 residents whose homes are 20 feet from the pavement backing up to

555
00:50:59,460 --> 00:51:06,640
Conde and consistently subjected to the noise and the speed that jolts our

556
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:15,200
homes day in and day out on the straightaway. Visible burn tire marks regularly

557
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,960
totally showcase the race track events that go on there.

558
00:51:19,780 --> 00:51:30,900
So Windsor Mobile Country Club respectfully insists that the $82,000 grant from the California

559
00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:36,740
Safety Department includes all written requests from Windsor Mobile Country Club Senior Park

560
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:45,000
that include but are not limited to the purchase of digital radar signs and other noise reduction

561
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,300
technology. Thank you.

562
00:51:56,630 --> 00:52:02,470
My name is Deborah Doyle, great to see you all this evening and what a

563
00:52:02,470 --> 00:52:09,930
wonderful meeting has been. We've listened to all kinds of people who have found family, strong

564
00:52:09,930 --> 00:52:13,450
family lives here in Windsor and they have

565
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:20,680
careers, they have families with them, they love this

566
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:28,060
town in a way that in a way that I think it's unusual. Originally, my family came from a tiny,

567
00:52:28,140 --> 00:52:34,480
tiny little town in Nebraska, and it had that sort of sense. I mean, it was a thousand people,

568
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:39,900
and Windsor's a little bigger than that, but it still has that same we want to get to know you,

569
00:52:40,060 --> 00:52:46,680
we want to welcome you to this community. And I think one of the things that Measure I does is it

570
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:50,880
looks forward to making sure that Windsor

571
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,900
is that kind of town in the future.

572
00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:56,260
And so I urge everybody to make sure

573
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that you go to the town hall, make sure you listen,

574
00:52:59,700 --> 00:53:01,180
be part of the conversations,

575
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,020
and there have been conversations

576
00:53:03,020 --> 00:53:05,780
about an additional tiny, tiny tax for this town

577
00:53:05,780 --> 00:53:07,140
for a very long time.

578
00:53:07,700 --> 00:53:10,960
So this is the opportunity for us to really look

579
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,880
to the future because federal dollars

580
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,380
are not going to be very available.

581
00:53:14,380 --> 00:53:16,700
state dollars are not going to be very available.

582
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:22,340
And so one of the things that Windsor is very well known for is pulling its socks up

583
00:53:22,340 --> 00:53:26,720
and creating solutions in this town itself.

584
00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:32,300
And I urge you to take a look at the town's educational piece about Measure I.

585
00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:34,160
It's got all the information that you need.

586
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:40,540
Our yes on Measure I, as you've heard, we're marching in the parade, but we also have a website.

587
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:43,100
We also have a Facebook page and that sort of thing.

588
00:53:43,620 --> 00:53:48,960
We've got lawn signs coming out so please let us know that you want them, but truly think

589
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:54,880
about the future of this town, that's what Measure I is about and things are not going

590
00:53:54,880 --> 00:54:01,100
to get cheaper, things are going to get more expensive and so the storms are coming also.

591
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:08,020
I think it's not going to be inexpensive to get this town ready for lots and lots of storms.

592
00:54:08,020 --> 00:54:12,000
So, honestly, it is not about thinking about the past,

593
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,040
it's not about thinking about mistakes in the past,

594
00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:16,840
although certainly the town council, I think,

595
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:20,040
and the staff has been very good about explaining

596
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,100
what they need the money for, what possible future needs

597
00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:23,660
there are.

598
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,280
So, I would urge you to come to the town hall and take a look at that.

599
00:54:27,420 --> 00:54:30,200
And in the meantime, those of you who do see the possibilities

600
00:54:30,580 --> 00:54:32,940
of the future come get our signs.

601
00:54:33,700 --> 00:54:35,060
We're also on social media.

602
00:54:36,740 --> 00:54:40,060
And again, our website is YesOnI for Windsor.org.

603
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:40,920
Thanks very much.

604
00:54:42,740 --> 00:54:44,100
Anyone else from the public?

605
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,540
I'd ask you to leave the line-ups.

606
00:54:47,420 --> 00:54:49,000
There's more than one person.

607
00:54:54,180 --> 00:54:55,860
Hi, Betsy Mouse, Wayne Tree Circle.

608
00:54:57,860 --> 00:54:59,980
I had the radio on as I was coming over.

609
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:29,980
This California, the richest state, but it is also the second poorest state, only to Louisiana. Most of that was due to the housing, but they said what really pushed the amount of four people in California were the daily costs, the costs that they needed to live every day. We know about the housing in California, but that was the piece that really put us into the second worst place.

610
00:55:29,980 --> 00:55:38,000
And that's a hard place to be, where they're the richest state and yet close to being the poorest state.

611
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:43,880
So we have people in our state at all ends of the spectrum.

612
00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:53,120
Sometimes a little teeny tax is enough for someone not to be able to afford something they need.

613
00:55:53,120 --> 00:56:02,620
We know that a tax is regressive, a sales tax hurts the people who at least need to be hurt the most.

614
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:11,180
I spoke to a group of people yesterday and listened to a lot of what they had to say.

615
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:17,320
And they questioned why this didn't have a sunset.

616
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:24,140
Why this tax measure eye is puts the onus onto the voters to make it go away.

617
00:56:24,140 --> 00:56:30,800
The town has said that they've always been good stewards with our money and I think they

618
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:31,160
have.

619
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,800
The last seven years they've talked about seeing structural deficits.

620
00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:39,480
It's now gotten to a critical point.

621
00:56:43,330 --> 00:56:49,210
So it shouldn't take until the voters decide to correct the deficit.

622
00:56:49,690 --> 00:56:54,450
It should be correctable in a finite period of time.

623
00:56:54,450 --> 00:57:03,070
Whether that would be 10 years or 20 years, the ask should be, you help us out and we're

624
00:57:03,070 --> 00:57:04,050
going to do our jobs.

625
00:57:05,070 --> 00:57:08,890
And what was mentioned to me was that is not the ask.

626
00:57:09,350 --> 00:57:17,810
There is no sunset to this tax and it really will hurt the very people who need it the least.

627
00:57:18,650 --> 00:57:19,410
So thank you.

628
00:57:19,590 --> 00:57:20,570
Please consider my thoughts.

629
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,840
All right, seeing no one lined up at the podium, I'm going to close public comment.

630
00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:31,320
I'm going to now begin our consent calendar items.

631
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:36,520
We have 12.1, the approval of minutes from September 2nd, 12.2, ratified check register,

632
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:43,880
number 647, 12.3, Office of Traffic Safety, Law Enforcement Grant, 12.4, Biannial Review,

633
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:48,740
Revision of Town Conflict of Interest Codes, 12.5, Old Rated Highway Payment Preservation

634
00:57:48,740 --> 00:57:54,840
project from Lakewood Drive to Panna Dobie Corp budget amendment and 12.6 authorize an increase

635
00:57:54,840 --> 00:58:00,180
to the major construction agreement with M3 Integration Service for the Cunningham House Rehabilitation

636
00:58:00,180 --> 00:58:06,520
Project. Do I have a motion or are there any comments? I'll make a motion to approve the

637
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:13,200
consent calendar and then I do have a comment. Okay. Okay. Go ahead with your comment.

638
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:19,600
And just a comment on 12.6 that that amount was funded in full by the Windsor Historical

639
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:22,220
Society's that price did not come from the town.

640
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:22,700
Okay.

641
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:23,920
Thank you.

642
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:25,940
Can I have a roll call vote please?

643
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:27,340
Vice Mayor Potter.

644
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:28,640
Aye.

645
00:58:29,100 --> 00:58:29,980
Council Member Leap.

646
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:30,600
Aye.

647
00:58:31,140 --> 00:58:32,020
Council Member Wall.

648
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:32,400
Yes.

649
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:33,960
Council Member Salmon.

650
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:34,360
Aye.

651
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:35,320
And Mayor Renosa.

652
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:35,820
Aye.

653
00:58:36,060 --> 00:58:36,380
Thank you.

654
00:58:36,620 --> 00:58:37,040
Thank you.

655
00:58:37,340 --> 00:58:38,960
Now moving on to our public hearing.

656
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13.1.

657
00:58:40,380 --> 00:58:43,820
the 2026 Multiple Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan?

658
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:53,860
Okay, good evening mayor and council members. I'm Kim Jordan. I'm a planner in the community development

659
00:58:53,860 --> 00:58:59,360
department and this evening we'll talk about Sonoma County Multi Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation

660
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,780
Plan and Windsor's Annex to that plan.

661
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,960
So specifically we'll be talking about, we'll do a plan overview,

662
00:59:08,220 --> 00:59:12,600
we'll talk about Windsor's Annex, we'll talk about the public outreach and public comment, the

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environmental review that's required for the plan and the next steps.

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So this Sonoma County Multigurge Stictional Hazard Mitigation Plan provides an overview

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of the impacts of natural hazards that communities face and in the assets.

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Assets include people, structures, systems, resources, which include natural, historic, and cultural

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What are identified? And it makes the town eligible for grant funding. The plans comprised

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of two volumes, both are actually available in English and Spanish on the town's website

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and on Permit Sonoma's website. The first volume, volume 1, is called the basic plan.

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It is county-wide. Volume 2 is comprised of the hazard mitigation plan itself that's specific

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to each jurisdiction that participates in the multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan.

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Those individual plans are called annexes.

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And so volume one, the county-wide basic plan

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includes the plan a discussion of the planning process, a description of the county profile,

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which a demographic assessment for each of the hazards that face the county as a whole,

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which are dam failure, drought, earthquake, extreme cold, extreme heat, extreme wind, flooding,

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landslide, sea level rise, tsunami, and wildfire. Some of those, as you can tell, don't

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specifically affect Windsor. It has a capability assessment, mitigation strategy, and there's

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a plan maintenance strategy.

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Volume 2 is comprised of the annexes for all of the jurisdictions

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that participate in the multigerstictional and hazard mitigation plan.

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It describes all the members of the hazard mitigation planning team,

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the community profile demographic specific to that agency,

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01:01:36,580 --> 01:01:40,000
the public engagement that was done by that particular jurisdiction,

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the stakeholders for that jurisdiction, the changes in priorities for a given community.

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It reviews the capability assessments and how your capabilities are integrated into your plan,

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national flood insurance program compliance, the growth and development trends for your community,

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01:02:02,580 --> 01:02:07,640
jurisdictional risk assessments, so those are the risks that are specific to your jurisdiction and

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what the risk levels are, and then the mitigation strategy and prioritization for your specific community.

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So

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currently our current plan is the 2021 multigerestictional hazard mitigation plan.

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The plan that we'll be asking council to adopt tonight is the 2026 multigerestictional

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hazard mitigation plan and there are some changes between the two plans.

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One is in the 2021 plan.

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We had something called extreme weather that has been changed to focus on extreme wind.

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The second change is that extreme heat and extreme cold were added to the plan to

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address the fluctuations that were seeing in heat and cold.

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It also will align the hazard mitigation plan with an assembly bill that is going to

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require the town to incorporate those hazards into our public health and safety element by

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01:03:07,590 --> 01:03:14,890
2028. And this increased the hazards for Windsor to nine hazards from seven. So we'll have nine

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hazards that we're addressing in the 2026 plan. We had seven in the previous plan.

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01:03:19,990 --> 01:03:28,150
And then rankings for certain hazards change from the 2026 plan compared to the 2021 plan.

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One of those specifically is dam failure was high in the 2021 plan due to the Warm Springs Dam was

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it had that fail that would have been a significant hazard to Windsor due to

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01:03:42,130 --> 01:03:46,470
remapping of the dam failure by the Army Corps of Engineers that hazard is now

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01:03:46,470 --> 01:03:53,490
low. In the 2021 plan and there were 14 participating jurisdictions in this

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01:03:53,490 --> 01:03:58,930
plan there are all there are 22 participating jurisdictions including all nine

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01:03:58,930 --> 01:04:00,610
cities and the county of Sonoma.

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So to specifically talk about Windsor's Annex

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The Windsor-specific vulnerabilities are damn failure, earthquake, flooding,

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geologic hazards, and then landslide, and then wildfire.

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So wildfires, the hazard severity zones.

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The plan includes a map of the hazards, which are shown here.

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This is showing the location of dam and indation from damn failure.

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and also our flood zones are 1% and 5% flood hazard areas.

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And this is the mapped hazard from Windsor's ANX,

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that show the location of the soils that create higher earthquake hazards for Windsor,

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and then also our wildfire severity zones for moderate and high.

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I'm here to 2021, so this is an order of ranking earthquake was high for Windsor and then dry out extreme hold, extreme heat and extreme wind and wildfire are all medium in the 2026 plan and then damn failure flood and landslide are all low.

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And then there are a variety of mitigation actions that the town can take. We can address hazards through local plans and regulations, structured and infrastructure.

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projects such as draining system upgrades and building

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01:05:35,980 --> 01:05:39,960
hardening. We can undertake natural systems protections

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such as creek improvements and we can do education and

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awareness programs such as Windsor's Windsor Ready

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program.

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So just to talk a little bit about mitigation

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actions in the town's current plan which is a 2021 plan

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there were a total of 56 mitigation actions as part of the

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plan update. Windsor's planning team got together, we're required to review all of those mitigation

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actions and identify the status where they completed, have they become an ongoing capability of the

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town, are they in progress or has the town made no progress, and then identify whether or not they

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will move forward into the updated 2026 plan. In the 2026 plan, we have a total of 22 mitigation

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actions. Many of them are a combination of moving them forward in the 2021

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mitigations into the 2026 plan. Some of the reduction is because many of our

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mitigation actions are included in some of the town's plans, such as our

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store motor plan, so instead of identifying certain projects specifically, we

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01:06:51,890 --> 01:06:56,990
are simply referred to implementing town plans like our urban water management

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plan. We have a reduction in the number of actions because of that. The mitigation actions are

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also prioritized, so 1 through 26. However, the town is not required to implement them in the order

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01:07:13,250 --> 01:07:20,590
of priority. No need, no, is the town required to complete all of the mitigation actions. The town

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could also identify a mitigation action that is not included in the plan and choose to implement

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01:07:26,530 --> 01:07:27,630
that mitigation action.

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So just to go through the top three actions that were identified in order of

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priority. One is to do public outreach about for emergency preparedness, about dam failure.

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That would be incorporated into our Windsor Ready plan that we already have.

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And the second would be to identify our warming and cooling centers just to make them available

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during extreme hot and cold events and then inform the public of their availability.

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And the third is to provide public information about wildfire, so to develop educational materials

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about building hardening, fire safe landscaping and fencing materials and then make them available

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to the public.

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01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:28,820
And the draft hazard mitigation plan was available last year for public review.

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01:08:28,820 --> 01:08:36,800
We did a presentation during the one month review period, which was from October to November 2025 including at town council.

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01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,320
That draw plan was sent to Cal OES.

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01:08:40,060 --> 01:08:45,200
Comments received during that period were included in the plan that went to Cal OES.

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Cal OES approved the plan that went to FEMA. FEMA has approved the plan. That's a plan you're considering this evening.

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Once it's approved by town council.

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approval that approval will go to back to FEMA.

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And so just to talk, I should have actually talked about the General Plan first.

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The General Plan actually has a policy that talks about our hazard mitigation plan, and

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we're required to continue to maintain a hazard mitigation plan and incorporate it into the

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01:09:16,860 --> 01:09:18,620
general plan by reference.

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that makes the town eligible for more grant funding by the state in the event of a declared disaster.

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So if we don't have it integrated into our general plan by for reference,

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the town is not eligible for the possibility of that additional disaster mitigation funding.

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The environmental review for this project, it is exempt from Sequa as a feasibility and planning study and under the common sense exemption.

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because there's no environmental impact that would be associated with the town council adopting a hazard mitigation plan.

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So the next steps.

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The council does adopt the hazard mitigation plan this evening. We submit it to the county of Sonoma. They are the lead agency for this project. They submit it to FEMA. And then once FEMA accepts the resolution from the council, we are responsible for annual review and maintenance of the plan. And then as I as I mentioned, we are able to make modifications annually or more often than that if needed.

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So tonight's recommended action is just to hold the required public hearing and adopt a resolution to adopt the 2026 multi jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan volume one and the Windsor annex included in volume two.

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And that is the resolution title.

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Then I'm available for any questions.

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Thank you very much for that presentation. Is there any questions from the council for staff?

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01:10:57,550 --> 01:11:00,610
No, seeing none, I will open it up to the public.

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Anyone in the public wishing to make a comment on this item may approach the podium.

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Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the council.

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01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:18,980
And discussion or emotion.

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01:11:21,930 --> 01:11:22,430
Great job.

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01:11:23,730 --> 01:11:30,010
It's it's it's scary stuff and it's things we don't think about until they're happening.

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01:11:30,490 --> 01:11:37,730
And I've been blessed that the last four years, we haven't had any major disaster.

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01:11:38,030 --> 01:11:43,730
And I'm, yeah, so hopefully that continues for the next rest of the year.

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01:11:43,890 --> 01:11:51,190
But important work and, yeah, so I appreciate everything that is to put into this work.

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01:11:52,030 --> 01:11:53,950
Any other motion? Do I hear a motion?

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01:11:54,770 --> 01:11:56,930
If you want to put it back on the motion, there we go.

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01:11:57,530 --> 01:11:58,850
What's on the left to make the motion?

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I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution.

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01:12:03,250 --> 01:12:05,610
Or is this a resolution of the town council

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01:12:05,610 --> 01:12:09,270
of the town of Windsor adopting the 2026 multi jurisdictional

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01:12:09,270 --> 01:12:11,010
hazard mitigation plan volume one

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01:12:11,010 --> 01:12:13,430
and the Windsor annex included in volume two.

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01:12:14,150 --> 01:12:15,050
Is there a second?

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01:12:15,790 --> 01:12:16,170
I'll second.

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01:12:16,590 --> 01:12:17,410
Roll cover, please.

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01:12:18,170 --> 01:12:19,070
Vice Mayor Potter.

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01:12:19,310 --> 01:12:19,430
Aye.

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01:12:20,030 --> 01:12:20,990
Council Member Leap.

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01:12:21,110 --> 01:12:21,270
Aye.

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01:12:21,790 --> 01:12:22,970
Council Member Salmon.

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01:12:23,270 --> 01:12:23,450
Aye.

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01:12:23,930 --> 01:12:24,850
Council Member Wall.

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Yes.

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and Mayor Ray knows that.

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01:12:26,710 --> 01:12:26,810
Hi.

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Thank you.

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01:12:30,050 --> 01:12:35,330
Now we're moving on to item 13.2, the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan update.

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Good evening, President Renoza, Vice President Potter members of the board.

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My name is Christina Goulart, Environmental Program Manager for Water Conservation and Water

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Supply Planning.

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and I have William Nahas here, Deputy Director of, or Nehas, I think, I'm sorry about that,

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01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:29,160
William, Director of Deputy Director of Water and Environmental Management, and Shannon Kotula,

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:34,160
Director of Public Works, he's sitting behind us to answer your questions later, if need be.

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Tonight I'm presenting the results of our updated urban water management plan, as well as presenting

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as summary of our water shortage contingency plan and these plans are required by law to be

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updated every five years.

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01:13:53,260 --> 01:13:57,800
Staff's request is for the board to consider adoption of the 2025

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Urban Water Management Plan and to consider adoption of the 2025 water shortage contingency plan.

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01:14:06,570 --> 01:14:11,270
And as I said, these are required by state law. This is the California Water Code reference here

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01:14:11,270 --> 01:14:20,530
and the purpose of the Urban Water Management Plan is long-term resource planning to ensure adequate water supplies to meet existing and future demands for water.

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We have a new approach this time around and we did five years ago and in previous Urban Water Management plans, which is that for the Windsor Water District Service areas, we are separating them out and we did that for the water supply assessment about a month ago and we were talking to you then.

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So, whereas in the past we put all the water together in a bucket and all the demand together,

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01:14:45,810 --> 01:14:53,550
but staff feels that internally it's better and more useful to us to separate these water

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use and demand based on these two allocations so that we can prepare better for the future

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and water demand.

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Order supply allocations, they're both potable water that come from the Russian River underflow.

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In town and in slight areas outside of town, and we have a map to show you, we have 4,725 acre feet for year.

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And that comes from the Russian River Wellfield. We own that wellfield, and we use the Sonoma County Water Agency water rights for that. But we operate those wells.

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01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:33,600
And then we have another 900 acre-feet allocation for the outside areas for the airport area.

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We provide that water to those customers under an agreement with the Sonoma County Water

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01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:39,560
Agency.

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01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:44,680
And we purchase that water and it comes through the aqueduct, and that is not our infrastructure.

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01:15:45,780 --> 01:15:52,120
The land use authority for that allocation in town, and then my comment, Shiloh, is the

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:56,580
town of Windsor with in-town boundaries, but outside of the town boundaries, the land use

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01:15:56,580 --> 01:16:02,140
authority is the county of Sonoma. And of course for the outside areas of the airport area,

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01:16:02,460 --> 01:16:05,480
the land use authority is county of Sonoma.

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01:16:07,910 --> 01:16:10,190
And this is a map I don't think you would have seen

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01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:16,630
this before. We separated out the geographic areas that match the two different allocations.

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01:16:17,530 --> 01:16:25,290
So the green area is subject to the 4,725 acre feet and that water comes from the Russian

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01:16:25,290 --> 01:16:30,990
River Wellfield and the pink areas below that are subject to that 900 acre feet

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01:16:30,990 --> 01:16:34,610
and the water comes through the aqueduct. And I just want to make a comment here

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because I just noticed that this the Shiloh myacoma area looks enormous. It's

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01:16:40,210 --> 01:16:44,550
almost as big as the town but that's that usage is only 100 acre feet per year

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01:16:44,550 --> 01:16:47,990
approximately because it's mostly residential and then there's a park

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01:16:47,990 --> 01:16:49,190
bathroom. So

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01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:58,780
in the urban water management plan the water demand or water usage or

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01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:03,980
water need projection is required to be considered out to a 20-year horizon minimum.

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01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:09,820
We are also required to estimate water conservation estimates if we get participation and we

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01:17:09,820 --> 01:17:11,920
are required to attempt to get participation.

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01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:18,760
We are required to look at population trends, known developments and employment trends as

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01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:18,960
well.

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01:17:23,030 --> 01:17:29,410
So here is our water demand projection as well as our 2025 actual water use for these two

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01:17:29,410 --> 01:17:30,170
separate areas.

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01:17:30,170 --> 01:17:35,390
So these are just simple tables, but the top one is for the Russian River Well-Field allocation.

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01:17:36,330 --> 01:17:41,810
The 2025 usage was 2,566 acre feet per year.

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01:17:42,430 --> 01:17:45,510
And that's based on actual usage from utility billing records.

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01:17:46,810 --> 01:17:52,930
And then we have in five year increments, as required by law, these projections going out to 2050,

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01:17:53,890 --> 01:17:58,750
based on, again, those things that we were looking at, the demand, the population, et cetera.

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01:17:58,750 --> 01:18:05,230
And then below that we have the aqueduct allocation and in 2025 again based on billing records

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01:18:05,890 --> 01:18:13,390
we used or 421 acre feet was used that year and then again in five year increments we

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01:18:13,390 --> 01:18:20,090
project out to 2050. And this allocation is what you would have seen already in the water supply

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01:18:20,090 --> 01:18:28,250
assessment where for the aqueduct area and the outside area where we looked at existing water

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01:18:28,250 --> 01:18:34,790
use, baseline water use. We added to that all of the existing pipeline projects. And then we also

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01:18:34,790 --> 01:18:41,790
incorporated with a different methodology, but we did incorporate the 2019 airport area specific

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01:18:41,790 --> 01:18:45,650
plan, the preferred development plan for the county.

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01:18:51,510 --> 01:18:54,990
For water supply reliability, the plan is

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required to address anticipated normal single dry drought year conditions and multiple drought year

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01:19:01,810 --> 01:19:08,790
conditions. And it's required that actual historical drought information is used when

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01:19:08,790 --> 01:19:15,190
we do these analyses. And actually because we don't provide water as a wholesaler, our

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01:19:15,190 --> 01:19:19,990
wholesaler Sonoma County Water Agency did this analysis for us. And they provide this analysis

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01:19:19,990 --> 01:19:25,290
to all of the water contractors, not just Windsor. And according to their data and their records,

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In other words, the best representative of an average rain year or water supply year is 1999, the worst single dry drought year was 1977, and then multiple year drought conditions was 1987 through 1991.

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01:20:02,770 --> 01:20:33,780
Now this is different from five years ago. So the Sonoma County Water Agency has determined that this time around in 2025 that if we were to apply these conditions to this historical conditions to current supply and demand realities that they would not have any water supply curtailments. Now they said some of that five years ago and we a year later had

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01:20:33,780 --> 01:20:37,160
a 20% mandatory water supply curtailment.

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01:20:37,380 --> 01:20:38,960
So it's just important to note that we,

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that this is a compliance document, it's a plan,

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it's not an operational document.

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01:20:43,500 --> 01:20:46,760
And obviously we have to roll with the punches

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01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:49,700
if nature gives us a drought, that's greater than we expect

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01:20:49,700 --> 01:20:51,760
than we have to have a curtailment.

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01:20:52,180 --> 01:20:54,040
But officially for our compliance,

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this is the analysis that was done

880
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:57,920
and this is a result that we were, that we were given.

881
01:21:00,180 --> 01:21:00,660
And

882
01:21:02,670 --> 01:21:05,290
so we have these water supply and demand comparisons.

883
01:21:05,850 --> 01:21:10,470
Again, I've separated out the top table as the Russian River Well-Field allocation

884
01:21:10,470 --> 01:21:12,810
and below that the aqueduct allocation.

885
01:21:13,730 --> 01:21:18,710
And as you can see here, this is also very different from five years ago and we'll talk

886
01:21:18,710 --> 01:21:20,490
a little bit about why that is.

887
01:21:20,910 --> 01:21:25,410
But we've got our portable water supply and I didn't include the recycle water in this

888
01:21:25,410 --> 01:21:25,730
table.

889
01:21:25,910 --> 01:21:27,790
This is just a lot simpler to do it this way.

890
01:21:27,790 --> 01:21:34,790
So you've got portable water supply across the top, that's the 4725, below that are projected

891
01:21:34,790 --> 01:21:41,030
water consumption, projections in five-year increments. And then we've got below that the shortfall.

892
01:21:41,330 --> 01:21:47,910
So we've got a pretty good looking shortfall, much better conditions than we had five years ago.

893
01:21:47,990 --> 01:21:53,270
And again, we'll talk about that in a sec. But now the picture for the outside areas is different.

894
01:21:53,270 --> 01:21:58,250
So as you can see here, when you look at the projected demand compared to supply and

895
01:21:58,250 --> 01:22:06,350
that supply is 900 all the way across, we do see that if the county of Sonoma were to

896
01:22:06,350 --> 01:22:12,210
get development according to their preferred development plan from 2019 actually, that there

897
01:22:12,210 --> 01:22:20,690
would be shortfalls in water supply by 2035 unless they develop some additional water supplies

898
01:22:20,690 --> 01:22:25,750
for that area, and that could be expansion of the recycle water system, which, you know,

899
01:22:25,870 --> 01:22:29,730
Mr. Cooms has talked about, he's going to help us out, which is great, potentially putting

900
01:22:29,730 --> 01:22:31,110
in some more wells in that area.

901
01:22:31,290 --> 01:22:35,430
So there are different options, but that would have to be done if they're going to follow

902
01:22:35,430 --> 01:22:36,870
through with that preferred plan.

903
01:22:40,770 --> 01:22:45,530
So here's some different reasons why we had some pretty drastic differences in some of these

904
01:22:45,530 --> 01:22:49,730
results from just five years ago, and the first is that we had this unexpected population

905
01:22:49,730 --> 01:22:52,210
We should drop in 2020 and 2021.

906
01:22:53,850 --> 01:22:58,630
So we had anticipated that there was going to be a continued study increase in population,

907
01:22:58,630 --> 01:23:02,410
but of course we couldn't have known that the pandemic was going to happen.

908
01:23:02,950 --> 01:23:08,810
And so we had a lot of people in the town, we dropped by I think 3,000 people within the town,

909
01:23:08,810 --> 01:23:11,070
and that's pretty consistent with a lot of the retailers.

910
01:23:11,730 --> 01:23:15,810
And so instead of having this increase in population at DIPT, and that just means we're using

911
01:23:15,810 --> 01:23:16,590
less water.

912
01:23:17,350 --> 01:23:26,070
We also had that mandatory 20% reduction during the droughts in 2021 and 2022, and the

913
01:23:26,070 --> 01:23:27,910
town of Windsor really came through.

914
01:23:28,990 --> 01:23:34,330
The state requirement was a 20% reduction of diversion from the Russian River, and the

915
01:23:34,330 --> 01:23:38,270
town actually I think saved 21%, so did more than was required.

916
01:23:38,950 --> 01:23:43,550
And apparently a lot of those efficiency gains, and this is efficiency not just in the total

917
01:23:43,550 --> 01:23:47,830
but also per capita efficiency gains have been persistent.

918
01:23:48,270 --> 01:23:49,890
So these are changes not just in behavior

919
01:23:49,890 --> 01:23:52,430
but in increased like removing your lawn,

920
01:23:53,050 --> 01:23:54,230
doing something that like I did,

921
01:23:54,230 --> 01:23:56,030
I bought a more efficient dishwasher.

922
01:23:56,330 --> 01:23:59,590
And so when people engage in that kind of efficiency,

923
01:23:59,990 --> 01:24:03,730
that efficiency stays static for years to come.

924
01:24:04,590 --> 01:24:06,650
So we haven't had very much of a bounce back

925
01:24:06,650 --> 01:24:08,910
in water consumption since then.

926
01:24:09,550 --> 01:24:11,370
And then from the supply side,

927
01:24:11,370 --> 01:24:16,390
Sonoma County Water Agency has vastly improved their reservoir management.

928
01:24:16,690 --> 01:24:22,310
They've been using new technology and weather forecasting that's allowed them to keep

929
01:24:22,310 --> 01:24:24,590
more water in their reservoirs longer.

930
01:24:25,430 --> 01:24:30,030
And so all those things put together improved our water picture, which is really good news.

931
01:24:34,580 --> 01:24:42,940
And so our findings are that by 2035, the airport area is projected to face water supply shortages

932
01:24:42,940 --> 01:24:49,660
under normal single-dryer and multiple-dryer conditions without additional water supply development.

933
01:24:51,500 --> 01:24:58,240
And I also want to say that there are some slight numerical variations between these numbers.

934
01:24:58,360 --> 01:24:59,600
I don't know if you noticed them or not.

935
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:23,800
We have a different, in the urban water management plan when you compare it to the water supply assessment. That's because we had slightly different methodologies and different requirements for the two different documents. And so we are staff is going to write a memorandum to explain that and will amend that or attach that I mean to the urban water management plan and will upload that to the public. However, it does not change any of the conclusions at all. The conclusions stay the same.

936
01:25:27,670 --> 01:25:33,090
And I also thought it would be important to state at this point that although we do have a large

937
01:25:33,090 --> 01:25:40,110
or sort of surplus for the in town areas that we still do need to go ahead and develop

938
01:25:40,110 --> 01:25:43,330
our off-river well supplies for resilience.

939
01:25:44,270 --> 01:25:49,810
So knock on wood that we haven't had a huge fire or some other catastrophe, but they do

940
01:25:49,810 --> 01:25:54,310
happen we need to be prepared for that and we are vulnerable because we only have the one

941
01:25:54,310 --> 01:25:54,850
water supply.

942
01:25:55,050 --> 01:25:56,330
All our water comes from the Russian river.

943
01:25:57,010 --> 01:26:03,070
And so having forbid if we have an earthquake like City of Napa did 15 years ago, they had

944
01:26:03,070 --> 01:26:05,570
And they had a whole section of town ward.

945
01:26:05,790 --> 01:26:06,610
They didn't have any water.

946
01:26:07,350 --> 01:26:13,070
So town staff's findings is that we should still move forward with development if the

947
01:26:13,070 --> 01:26:14,790
off river well supply.

948
01:26:17,360 --> 01:26:19,460
And now the water shortage contingency plan.

949
01:26:19,980 --> 01:26:25,320
We are required by state law to discuss the water shortage contingency plan separately in

950
01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:25,760
public hearing.

951
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:26,920
So that's what we're doing now.

952
01:26:27,700 --> 01:26:31,540
It's chapter eight of the urban water management plan, but it's sort of its own plan as

953
01:26:31,540 --> 01:26:31,680
well.

954
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:32,620
It's a standalone plan.

955
01:26:32,620 --> 01:26:37,740
The purpose is to provide a framework for responding to an emergency water shortage.

956
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,580
So when we have an emergency shortage, this kicks in.

957
01:26:42,340 --> 01:26:46,260
And this would kick in for drought, earthquake, any reason why we have a shortage.

958
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,320
And it was last implemented in 2021 and 2022.

959
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:57,920
There are six levels of shortage in the plan, and when we implemented it in 2021, we were

960
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,600
at level two, which is a 20% mandatory reduction.

961
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:06,220
And examples of responses are limiting the days of the week where people can irrigate their

962
01:27:06,220 --> 01:27:10,500
landscape and limits on operation of decorative fountains and that sort of thing.

963
01:27:15,090 --> 01:27:20,250
There were no significant changes in legal requirements between 2020 and 2025 for this

964
01:27:20,250 --> 01:27:26,290
water shortage contingency plan and town staff did not make any significant changes.

965
01:27:26,470 --> 01:27:31,630
So I just listed the four changes that we did make based on the experience that we had during

966
01:27:31,630 --> 01:27:39,350
last drought. And the first was that we removed the requirement for power washers that recycle water

967
01:27:39,350 --> 01:27:43,950
because in the moment we did some research and found that they're exorbitantly expensive and we

968
01:27:43,950 --> 01:27:48,430
didn't want to put that burden on people to have to buy a power washer that was over $10,000.

969
01:27:49,870 --> 01:27:55,530
We also revised the no filling of swimming pools to say no permitting of swimming pools in

970
01:27:55,530 --> 01:27:59,810
level three because once the swimming pool is actually constructed if you don't fill it,

971
01:27:59,810 --> 01:28:04,870
It will crack and it will be damaged and we had members of the public making that request of us.

972
01:28:05,950 --> 01:28:10,910
We're also allowing bubblers and small fountains for pollinators and other wildlife gardens

973
01:28:11,450 --> 01:28:18,070
and we also included an exemption for irrigation of food gardens because that's a food security issue and we think people should be able to

974
01:28:18,070 --> 01:28:20,650
still go their vegetables even in a drought.

975
01:28:24,290 --> 01:28:29,030
And so our staff recommendation is that the Board adopt by resolution the 2025

976
01:28:29,030 --> 01:28:35,210
urban water management plan and that the board adopt by resolution the 2025 water

977
01:28:35,210 --> 01:28:42,100
shortage contingency plan. Great. Thank you very much. Does anyone have a

978
01:28:42,100 --> 01:28:52,560
question for staff? I do. Please. Since I own a pool. I'm just curious is there

979
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:57,900
is there something in there about training part of your pool and filling part of

980
01:28:57,900 --> 01:29:03,240
the pool? To drain part of it and fill it. No, there isn't. It's just that during certain

981
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:08,220
stages, you wouldn't permit anyone. Right. Yeah. Thank you. Anyone else with a question?

982
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:15,480
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation. I really appreciate this. And I'll give

983
01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:21,360
them a more comment later. But for the outside area, it's projected that they will not have enough water

984
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:29,540
in the future. And so I know water rights are difficult to come by, but for them to be able to,

985
01:29:29,820 --> 01:29:35,680
so if a new development were to go in that outside airport area, if they were projected to not have

986
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:40,700
enough water from our cinema water purchases, they would be able to drill new wells there. And

987
01:29:40,700 --> 01:29:44,860
is there a water right issue with drilling new wells, or would that be something that they would

988
01:29:44,860 --> 01:29:48,920
just have to have ordered when they are getting the permitting for their building?

989
01:29:50,180 --> 01:29:59,980
Well, you know, we we wouldn't be able to issue or give them a permit to drill a well that they would have to go the county planning department have to go to their other planning to.

990
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,920
They would have to go through the groundwater management authority. I don't think I'm saying the name of that agency right, but potentially they could drill new wells. They would have to go through a permitting process for that, and we would not be, I don't think we would have any say in their well. Yes, please do. Can you change it to the slide where it shows the shortage? If you don't mind, because I have a question. If I'm understanding the question is, if development occurs in the air,

991
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:36,520
report area, how would they get additional water for supporting that growth in that area.

992
01:30:36,740 --> 01:30:41,180
And there's multiple pathways that we speak a little bit about that in the water supply

993
01:30:41,180 --> 01:30:42,700
assessments for those areas.

994
01:30:43,420 --> 01:30:48,600
One way is to offset their potable demand with recycled water.

995
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:55,280
So as we've heard in past council meetings, expansion of recycled water into the airport

996
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,520
area could offset some of this demand.

997
01:30:57,520 --> 01:31:01,920
And there is an opportunity for wells to be drilled.

998
01:31:02,180 --> 01:31:07,840
For example, what we're doing in Windsor with the aquifer storage and recovery,

999
01:31:08,220 --> 01:31:11,040
that could still happen in the airport area, potentially.

1000
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:16,340
If it ultimately becomes feasible, we would go through the same processes

1001
01:31:16,340 --> 01:31:21,600
as we're going through with the offer of our wells that we're working on in Windsor.

1002
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:27,060
and so they would be, ultimately my expectation it would be that those

1003
01:31:27,060 --> 01:31:32,460
become Windsor water district wells and so how those be get funded for

1004
01:31:32,460 --> 01:31:36,180
development those are all things that absolutely need to be coordinated and

1005
01:31:36,180 --> 01:31:41,300
worked on and what is that demand and we don't have clarity about what that

1006
01:31:41,300 --> 01:31:47,970
future looks like at this point you know before I ask my question can I ask our

1007
01:31:47,970 --> 01:31:51,910
council I just don't want to go too deep into something where we shouldn't be

1008
01:31:51,910 --> 01:31:56,110
talking about, are we okay with these types of questions? I mean, we're just

1009
01:31:56,110 --> 01:32:00,790
approving a plan here. And these questions are fine just because they do have

1010
01:32:00,790 --> 01:32:08,210
to because that area is shown it is related. Okay. But you're right, Mayor, we

1011
01:32:08,210 --> 01:32:12,450
don't really have control as far as what the county does. Right. And they're

1012
01:32:12,450 --> 01:32:16,970
permitting of wells. Okay. But I think this information is related. Okay, thank you

1013
01:32:16,970 --> 01:32:21,830
because now my question is kind of similar. And I think I asked this

1014
01:32:21,830 --> 01:32:28,170
last time he presented last month. So the Russian River, we have a surplus. So like looking

1015
01:32:28,170 --> 01:32:32,970
at this information, we'll just let them borrow what their shirt follows, but that doesn't

1016
01:32:32,970 --> 01:32:39,410
work that way, right? We don't, we don't, we wouldn't give them more water than they're allocated,

1017
01:32:39,530 --> 01:32:46,390
right? Sure. I think the short answer is yes, you are correct. This is a water supply planning

1018
01:32:46,390 --> 01:32:51,890
effort. So we're looking long-term, we're not looking at operational supplies and operations

1019
01:32:51,890 --> 01:32:57,350
of the system. Someone needs water, they're a customer of art. We're going to move everything

1020
01:32:57,350 --> 01:33:02,950
we can, we're going to get them water. So that's, I want to set that aside and look at how we plan

1021
01:33:02,950 --> 01:33:09,110
for long-term water supplies and that's where you're seeing this separation between the two areas.

1022
01:33:09,110 --> 01:33:19,090
is if the Windsor-Water District Board chose to utilize that what is on paper, a surplus

1023
01:33:19,090 --> 01:33:24,470
to provide additional water to the airport area, that commitment could be made.

1024
01:33:26,010 --> 01:33:33,190
That is an approach, however, there are, again, opportunities to develop additional supplies

1025
01:33:33,190 --> 01:33:38,370
in that area to offset that demand that supports that growth.

1026
01:33:38,370 --> 01:33:57,910
We have seen in Windsor and at the Windsor Water District, we have seen a request for water supply that far outpace what has previously been zoned for in given properties within both the airport area and within the town.

1027
01:33:57,910 --> 01:34:00,310
That's something that gives us great concern.

1028
01:34:00,810 --> 01:34:04,290
That 1385 acre feet looks like a large number.

1029
01:34:04,990 --> 01:34:07,670
It is, however, it makes me nervous.

1030
01:34:08,010 --> 01:34:09,130
And that makes me cautious.

1031
01:34:09,770 --> 01:34:12,610
When you look at the risks to our water supply

1032
01:34:12,610 --> 01:34:16,910
with global warming and you look at risks to the supply

1033
01:34:16,910 --> 01:34:19,650
in the region with the potter valley issues.

1034
01:34:20,190 --> 01:34:26,450
And then the water uses that come with different commercial operations

1035
01:34:26,450 --> 01:34:30,990
or from a densification of housing developments,

1036
01:34:31,750 --> 01:34:35,650
there is a potential absolutely for the demand

1037
01:34:35,650 --> 01:34:38,530
to outstrip that supply that we're projecting

1038
01:34:38,530 --> 01:34:40,230
on the screen today.

1039
01:34:41,070 --> 01:34:45,390
And so I would, my recommendation, as,

1040
01:34:45,770 --> 01:34:47,190
and I should say, I'm Shannon Coutula,

1041
01:34:47,550 --> 01:34:49,310
the Public Works Director and Town Engineer,

1042
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:29,380
Aye, where there's shortfall to offset that demand with an expectation that there's abundant water for everybody and we have the time now to implement those increases in supply rather than putting at risk the future opportunities for the community. I don't know if I answered your question. You kind of did, and I'm going to add some more and please stop me if I'm overstepping or reaching, but I just you mentioned that. Okay.

1043
01:35:29,380 --> 01:35:33,560
So the airport area, there are customers.

1044
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:39,420
So the plan is that they have 900 cubic feet

1045
01:35:39,420 --> 01:35:45,660
of water and if they choose to build more and grow,

1046
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:49,640
is that going to put a burden on our staff

1047
01:35:50,220 --> 01:35:52,640
to find them water? Is that on us?

1048
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,120
It is, it will be the Windsor water district

1049
01:35:56,120 --> 01:36:02,700
that needs to develop that water supply, where that water supply comes from, how it gets paid for,

1050
01:36:02,820 --> 01:36:07,860
that is something absolutely has to happen in conjunction with the county as the

1051
01:36:09,060 --> 01:36:14,420
the development approval authority, the land use approving authority, and us as the Windsor

1052
01:36:14,420 --> 01:36:20,720
Water District as the water supplier, and the developer who wants to come in and develop when there's

1053
01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:26,060
inadequate water supply for that area. The reason that there is a separation between the

1054
01:36:26,060 --> 01:36:35,380
the 4,725 and the 900 acre feet is because it's a contractual agreement that the county

1055
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:43,220
through contract with Sonoma water would provide 900 up to 900 acre feet per year of water

1056
01:36:43,220 --> 01:36:51,640
for Windsor water district to supply water to the airport area. And because of that agreement,

1057
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:59,300
That's where that 900 acre fee comes from and we can, the Windsor Water District, that

1058
01:36:59,300 --> 01:37:04,900
town supply, that 4725, some of that can go to the airport area, but it doesn't have

1059
01:37:04,900 --> 01:37:05,120
to.

1060
01:37:05,700 --> 01:37:05,940
Okay.

1061
01:37:06,420 --> 01:37:07,400
I got that.

1062
01:37:07,700 --> 01:37:07,820
Okay.

1063
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:08,500
Any other questions?

1064
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:09,640
Thank you.

1065
01:37:10,540 --> 01:37:11,060
Any?

1066
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:11,800
Okay.

1067
01:37:11,940 --> 01:37:13,560
I'm going to go ahead and open it to public.

1068
01:37:14,060 --> 01:37:19,380
Anyone from the public wishing to make a comment, please, on this item alone, please approach

1069
01:37:19,380 --> 01:37:19,740
podium.

1070
01:37:27,510 --> 01:37:32,650
I'm sitting here taking notes and I think that I'm kind of at the same place where you are but

1071
01:37:32,650 --> 01:37:36,290
I'm not on the council so I can make any public comment I want.

1072
01:37:39,030 --> 01:37:42,250
It looks like we have a developer

1073
01:37:42,250 --> 01:37:51,850
that came in that wants to put a thousand homes on this area of supply and it looks like in a fairly

1074
01:37:51,850 --> 01:37:58,830
short amount of time. Just what we know will exceed the supply that we have. There's

1075
01:37:58,830 --> 01:38:05,230
also lots of land out at the airport and that'd be a great place for them to put a data

1076
01:38:07,690 --> 01:38:16,210
center which would use huge amounts of water. What liability does the town have because

1077
01:38:16,210 --> 01:38:22,450
because the county is the one that's allowing that development to go in.

1078
01:38:23,530 --> 01:38:30,570
So I know that both Christina and Shannon are really super smart and I know they have

1079
01:38:30,570 --> 01:38:37,430
a plan for this but it just it seems like there's liability left for the town and the

1080
01:38:37,430 --> 01:38:41,650
water supply to the town if there are parts that are outside of our control.

1081
01:38:41,990 --> 01:38:45,810
So I hope that makes sense and that is sort of still my question.

1082
01:38:45,810 --> 01:38:46,370
Thank you.

1083
01:38:47,450 --> 01:38:48,810
Anybody else from the public?

1084
01:38:50,490 --> 01:38:55,610
Okay. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing and bring it back to the council for discussion.

1085
01:38:56,230 --> 01:39:00,090
And I'll go ahead and start since I kind of had my question.

1086
01:39:00,370 --> 01:39:12,590
And so I guess my concern, and this is something, I guess we have to go and address forward, the airport area is growing.

1087
01:39:12,590 --> 01:39:13,590
It's definitely growing.

1088
01:39:13,770 --> 01:39:19,110
I think today in the press Democrat, they talked about the airport expansion and, you know,

1089
01:39:19,370 --> 01:39:24,310
pretty soon that whole strip could look like I am picturing going to Oakland airport and

1090
01:39:24,310 --> 01:39:30,450
just left and right hotels, gas stations, you know, just very, you know, traveling in and

1091
01:39:30,450 --> 01:39:30,650
out.

1092
01:39:30,650 --> 01:39:32,530
So there's going to be a, it's growing.

1093
01:39:32,690 --> 01:39:38,350
So I guess my concern when I first started to educate myself on this and you guys have

1094
01:39:38,350 --> 01:39:45,110
done a great job. I don't want to diminish whatever the word is for that. Say you haven't.

1095
01:39:47,410 --> 01:39:58,510
I don't know if the council themselves going forward. I don't want to see our staff do too much work.

1096
01:39:58,510 --> 01:39:58,910
work.

1097
01:39:59,110 --> 01:39:59,910
One.

1098
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:06,520
I appreciate it. I'm going to approve this report. It's a report, great report. But I just really

1099
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:12,040
want to, would like to think about that a little bit more going forward when the time comes.

1100
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:16,140
So, I guess that's, that's my comment. Anyone else?

1101
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:26,160
I guess just for clarification and understanding,

1102
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:36,560
We administer the airport's water and at any point in time, we could stop

1103
01:40:36,560 --> 01:40:41,340
administrating that the airport's water. Is that true?

1104
01:40:42,740 --> 01:40:47,160
Can I, if I can answer that question through the matter, please?

1105
01:40:48,420 --> 01:40:54,000
We have a contractual agreement and there are termination clauses in that

1106
01:40:54,000 --> 01:41:02,040
agreement that stipulate, this is out of my memory, that for example we've got to give

1107
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:08,760
them a years notice and that if we did that, that we would seed over, we would dedicate

1108
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:14,800
all of the assets for water assets that are in the airport area that belong to the Windsor

1109
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:21,700
Water District, we would dedicate those assets over to the county, to the county as assets

1110
01:41:21,700 --> 01:41:24,140
that's up there so that they could then distribute water.

1111
01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:26,040
There is also language in there

1112
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:28,740
that there's a believe or requirement that we,

1113
01:41:31,620 --> 01:41:34,420
there is a requirement that we would still,

1114
01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:36,320
they would still be able to purchase water

1115
01:41:36,320 --> 01:41:39,500
from the Windsor Water District to supply that area.

1116
01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:42,340
There's some details that would need to be worked out there.

1117
01:41:43,100 --> 01:41:50,060
And the other aspect is the consumers at the airport pay a rate.

1118
01:41:50,060 --> 01:41:56,980
There's different than the consumers in Windsor pay because it's aqueduct water and those

1119
01:41:56,980 --> 01:42:05,260
rates pay for our time and effort in administrating and operating the systems.

1120
01:42:05,660 --> 01:42:12,640
That's just very similar to how it works in the town of Windsor, our customers pay for

1121
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:14,720
us to be able to serve the water.

1122
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:34,060
And I think it was really this idea that having the town and the airport together give us some resilience to a great degree, we have access to the aqueduct water to a certain extent.

1123
01:42:34,440 --> 01:42:39,940
We wouldn't have if we were separate and the county has some access to our water.

1124
01:42:39,940 --> 01:42:44,780
especially if there's an emergency, that would be very helpful, is that, so that's kind

1125
01:42:44,780 --> 01:42:48,500
of the benefits of what we've entered into historically, is that true?

1126
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:49,720
Yeah, absolutely.

1127
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:56,020
Both of those, if I understand those comments correctly, yes, they pay a higher rate.

1128
01:42:56,060 --> 01:43:02,200
They pay for the 900 acre feet of water is at a much higher rate than the water that we

1129
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:08,980
produce at our wells that we charge, I'll say those in-town customers, the, with respect

1130
01:43:08,980 --> 01:43:14,220
to the resiliency, it is incredibly important and valuable for us as the Windsor Water District

1131
01:43:14,220 --> 01:43:20,940
to have that secondary connection and supply to the aqueducts. Absolutely, if something did happen,

1132
01:43:21,360 --> 01:43:26,860
flooding, for example, were to happen at our wells on the river and we lost that supply for some

1133
01:43:26,860 --> 01:43:35,280
reason. I can't overstate the benefit of having that resiliency to pull water from the aqueduct.

1134
01:43:35,280 --> 01:43:47,140
We're limited to that 900 acre feet on an annualized basis that we would pull if we needed to we'll pull as much water if we possibly can through that 12 inch connection, which is a lot of water.

1135
01:43:48,300 --> 01:43:57,100
And the reality is when a customer gets a bill whether it's the airport or the town, the cost of the actual water is minuscule.

1136
01:43:57,980 --> 01:44:05,220
It seems to me it's a half a penny a gallon or even less, but it's the process.

1137
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:10,700
It's how it comes to my house and how we read the meter, how we do the building and all

1138
01:44:10,700 --> 01:44:11,140
those things.

1139
01:44:11,660 --> 01:44:14,880
And the infrastructure that's really that's the basis for the bill.

1140
01:44:15,480 --> 01:44:15,720
Sure.

1141
01:45:01,340 --> 01:45:28,520
We're not actually paying somebody to purchase the water from them. It is the production of the water. It's the cost of that water right, the administration of that. All of those are what feed into Windsor's, I'll say, not the outside areas but the Windsor water that we provide to community members within the town. And I don't mean to prolong this, but even the electricity for the pumps and the chlorine will be used.

1142
01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:34,020
it still doesn't add up to very much in terms of the cost for gallon of water.

1143
01:45:34,340 --> 01:45:37,880
It is really the delivery that's costly.

1144
01:45:38,260 --> 01:45:39,960
Absolutely, okay.

1145
01:45:40,300 --> 01:45:41,100
Any, go ahead.

1146
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:41,480
Sure.

1147
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:41,840
Yeah.

1148
01:45:43,480 --> 01:45:48,320
So as I have been watching this, and I guess it's the third time I've seen this

1149
01:45:49,040 --> 01:45:51,480
basic presentation or read it or whatever.

1150
01:45:52,640 --> 01:45:57,020
It seems to me the first time I saw it, there was a little red.

1151
01:45:57,740 --> 01:46:02,940
There was a little red number over on the very bottom right hand last page so that we've

1152
01:46:02,940 --> 01:46:03,960
got a little bit of risk here.

1153
01:46:04,540 --> 01:46:11,000
And then now there's probably some middle stage and now I'm seeing significantly more.

1154
01:46:11,340 --> 01:46:15,400
Admittedly, though, it's 5, 10, 15, 20 years out in the future.

1155
01:46:16,300 --> 01:46:25,420
And my understanding was that if we run into these issues, that there is plenty of, I'll

1156
01:46:25,420 --> 01:46:26,540
call it, capacity.

1157
01:46:26,540 --> 01:46:33,200
it's sort of phantom capacity. By providing non-potable water, recycled water, we can mitigate,

1158
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:42,780
this is one of the mitigation plans, the need for potable water, and that's not shown on here,

1159
01:46:43,500 --> 01:46:50,420
and that solves most of the problems except for a 20-year drought scenario or something like that.

1160
01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:52,720
Am I understanding that fairly correctly?

1161
01:46:52,720 --> 01:47:04,500
I will say yes to the point where we can mitigate potable water use and offset that demand

1162
01:47:04,500 --> 01:47:10,040
with recycled water for things like irrigating your plants, et cetera, around town.

1163
01:47:11,300 --> 01:47:18,100
If you're envisioning, however, that all houses in the town of Windsor have recycled water

1164
01:47:18,100 --> 01:47:24,160
and irrigation, their outside irrigation is done with recycled water, at that level of

1165
01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:29,180
demand we can't offset. That's more demand than we actually have recycled water. And

1166
01:47:29,180 --> 01:47:33,780
the infrastructure to put in that recycled water is very expensive. One of the reasons

1167
01:47:33,780 --> 01:47:40,080
that we target the airport area is that there are some large irrigation demands that are

1168
01:47:40,080 --> 01:47:50,440
using potable water that could very much benefit from being offset by that recycle water

1169
01:47:50,440 --> 01:47:54,780
demand. The bang for the buck is there for that investment, but there are other places

1170
01:47:55,300 --> 01:48:01,180
like the proposed development north of Arata in that area with new construction. If we can

1171
01:48:01,180 --> 01:48:06,680
get recycled water out there, we can reduce, substantively reduce their potable water demand

1172
01:48:06,680 --> 01:48:08,000
and for those developments.

1173
01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:12,760
So the idea here is that we're looking down the pike.

1174
01:48:13,160 --> 01:48:14,720
We're fine for the next few years.

1175
01:48:16,220 --> 01:48:18,300
And we're looking down into the future,

1176
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:20,360
coming up with the mitigation plans,

1177
01:48:20,700 --> 01:48:22,960
seeing what we have to do out into the future.

1178
01:48:23,220 --> 01:48:24,240
You're presenting this.

1179
01:48:24,820 --> 01:48:27,000
We're saying yes, we're accepting this.

1180
01:48:28,180 --> 01:48:30,420
And that's where we stand with respect to this.

1181
01:48:30,660 --> 01:48:32,920
If there's a little red number down there

1182
01:48:32,920 --> 01:48:34,100
in the bottom right hand corner,

1183
01:48:34,100 --> 01:48:36,940
that's what we're looking at and analyzing it.

1184
01:48:37,320 --> 01:48:39,540
That's the exercise we're going through right now.

1185
01:48:39,820 --> 01:48:42,620
Yes, and outside of this plan we are looking for ways

1186
01:48:42,620 --> 01:48:45,860
to mitigate that red number down in the bottom corner.

1187
01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:47,480
Okay, sounds good.

1188
01:48:49,450 --> 01:48:50,050
Any other?

1189
01:48:50,270 --> 01:48:50,370
Good.

1190
01:48:50,550 --> 01:48:51,970
Thank you again.

1191
01:48:52,330 --> 01:48:53,630
So thank you so much for the presentation.

1192
01:48:53,950 --> 01:48:55,710
Thank you for the work and looking at this.

1193
01:48:56,150 --> 01:49:00,230
Because this is a concern that I think that I know I hear regularly is like,

1194
01:49:00,230 --> 01:49:02,270
hey, well, why is there all this building in Windsor?

1195
01:49:02,350 --> 01:49:04,690
Because there's not enough water and there's going to be a water shortage

1196
01:49:04,690 --> 01:49:16,550
And we see on here that there's not going to be a water shortage, but where it is hard to explain and is what you mentioned earlier is when there is a dry year.

1197
01:49:17,010 --> 01:49:22,510
And we do ask whether there is a three years or whatever of a dry spell. And we do ask for the cutbacks.

1198
01:49:23,470 --> 01:49:28,110
And then it becomes like, well, why are you asking for cutbacks when you're saying that there's plenty of water.

1199
01:49:28,110 --> 01:49:33,950
And so I think that's just a communication around that that I think it needs to be really solid so that we can say that yes

1200
01:49:33,950 --> 01:49:38,090
The town of Windsor has planned for water. We do have water with the current

1201
01:49:38,090 --> 01:49:43,050
Resources that we have all the way out to 2050 and there's plenty of surplus right now and

1202
01:49:44,590 --> 01:49:50,570
But there are occasions when it is super dry that we do we are asked, you know, to pull back and

1203
01:49:51,150 --> 01:49:57,930
Save that water and it is really encouraging that we did ask for those 20% cuts before and there hasn't been a bounce back

1204
01:49:57,930 --> 01:49:59,910
And I think that that speaks a lot to the residents and

1205
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:15,960
All of you, if you mind. Go ahead. I would move that we adopt a resolution, the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan. And do we want to do two at once?

1206
01:50:16,540 --> 01:50:26,620
One resolution altogether. And the second one, I'd the board adopt the resolution, the 2025 water shortage contingency plan.

1207
01:50:26,620 --> 01:50:26,660
Yeah.

1208
01:50:26,960 --> 01:50:27,540
Is there a second?

1209
01:50:27,860 --> 01:50:28,160
Second.

1210
01:50:28,780 --> 01:50:29,600
Roll call vote please.

1211
01:50:30,820 --> 01:50:31,900
Board Member Sammon.

1212
01:50:32,280 --> 01:50:32,480
Aye.

1213
01:50:32,860 --> 01:50:34,060
Vice President Potter.

1214
01:50:34,340 --> 01:50:34,440
Aye.

1215
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:35,860
Board Member Leap.

1216
01:50:36,720 --> 01:50:37,460
Board Member Wall.

1217
01:50:37,680 --> 01:50:37,820
Yes.

1218
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:39,140
And President Renosa.

1219
01:50:39,580 --> 01:50:39,760
Aye.

1220
01:50:40,020 --> 01:50:40,320
Thank you.

1221
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:41,660
Thank you again so much.

1222
01:50:42,280 --> 01:50:43,080
Thank you.

1223
01:50:43,080 --> 01:50:45,080
Thank you for entertaining all our questions.

1224
01:50:46,720 --> 01:50:47,980
Water is important.

1225
01:50:49,040 --> 01:50:49,360
Okay.

1226
01:50:49,440 --> 01:50:51,660
We're moving on to our regular calendar item.

1227
01:50:52,220 --> 01:50:54,560
The town street tree policy overview.

1228
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:29,260
All right.

1229
01:51:29,260 --> 01:51:30,260
Can everyone see the PowerPoint?

1230
01:51:31,340 --> 01:51:31,460
Yes.

1231
01:51:31,880 --> 01:51:32,580
That's making sure.

1232
01:51:33,300 --> 01:51:33,540
All right.

1233
01:51:33,740 --> 01:51:34,240
Good evening.

1234
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:36,080
Mayor, vice mayor and council members.

1235
01:51:36,100 --> 01:51:37,320
My name is Kevin Locke.

1236
01:51:37,440 --> 01:51:39,700
I am a planner with the community development department.

1237
01:51:40,300 --> 01:51:42,840
And today we are going to be discussing street trees.

1238
01:51:45,340 --> 01:51:47,620
So the little presentation overview.

1239
01:51:47,620 --> 01:51:48,920
We're going to start with background.

1240
01:51:49,320 --> 01:51:50,620
What is a street tree?

1241
01:51:50,860 --> 01:51:53,980
The current town regulatory context for street trees.

1242
01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:58,200
Challenges in street tree management and alternatives.

1243
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:00,560
and then the recommended action for tonight.

1244
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:03,820
So, the little background.

1245
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:06,660
Trees are an integral part to the town of Windsor,

1246
01:52:06,780 --> 01:52:08,200
and contribute to its scenic beauty,

1247
01:52:08,860 --> 01:52:11,940
increase property values, help reduce energy costs,

1248
01:52:12,940 --> 01:52:15,700
reduce the heat island effect, provide habitat for wildlife,

1249
01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:19,680
and it's timely that the hazard mitigation item came tonight

1250
01:52:19,980 --> 01:52:24,040
as it helps resiliency in the town and reduce some impacts

1251
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:25,100
of climate change.

1252
01:52:26,320 --> 01:52:35,560
So as a result, the town has adopted a variety of regulatory goals, policies and to protect

1253
01:52:35,560 --> 01:52:37,520
and preserve trees in the town.

1254
01:52:38,100 --> 01:52:41,460
And specifically street trees, which is going to be the focus of its presentation.

1255
01:52:43,340 --> 01:52:43,800
So.

1256
01:52:44,100 --> 01:52:44,320
Okay.

1257
01:52:44,380 --> 01:52:44,960
I have to ask.

1258
01:52:45,020 --> 01:52:46,120
Is that a street in winter?

1259
01:52:47,840 --> 01:52:48,300
No.

1260
01:52:48,880 --> 01:52:49,620
Unfortunately not.

1261
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:51,300
Okay.

1262
01:52:51,440 --> 01:52:51,540
Sorry.

1263
01:52:51,820 --> 01:52:52,000
Go ahead.

1264
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:52,980
I tried to get them on.

1265
01:52:52,980 --> 01:53:00,360
the other side. So what is the street tree? A street tree is any tree growing within the towns

1266
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:06,960
right away or an area within the easement. The way I describe it to most is any tree growing

1267
01:53:06,960 --> 01:53:13,400
within the street and the sidewalk in a landscaping strip, but there are other options for street

1268
01:53:13,400 --> 01:53:17,920
trees such as within a traffic island or a median.

1269
01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:24,320
So as mentioned, trees are an integral part

1270
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:29,680
of the town and as a result the town has adopted a variety of regulations related to trees

1271
01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:34,620
starting with the general plan. The general plan's guiding principles have dedicated the

1272
01:53:34,620 --> 01:53:38,760
town to the preservation of environmental resources and the enhancement of the public realm.

1273
01:53:39,220 --> 01:53:44,180
As a result there are numerous policies within the general plan related to trees and street tree

1274
01:53:44,180 --> 01:53:54,020
management and then there is zoning code chapter 17.22.030 which is the town's tree preservation

1275
01:53:54,020 --> 01:54:00,520
ordinance. This is sort of the main document regulating protected trees in the town. A street

1276
01:54:00,520 --> 01:54:05,200
tree is considered to protect its species in the town and a tree removal permit is required

1277
01:54:05,200 --> 01:54:11,260
prior to removal of any street tree. And then there is the tree technical manual which sort of acts

1278
01:54:11,260 --> 01:54:18,420
as a supplement to the zoning code. The document is used for procedures and standards for the preservation

1279
01:54:18,420 --> 01:54:25,000
protection and maintenance of trees, and then we have the greenhouse gas or GHG checklist.

1280
01:54:25,440 --> 01:54:31,100
This was actually recently adopted by Council, which is intended to reduce greenhouse

1281
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:29,840
The great of ways, public spaces, and parking lots. And then there is the complete streets design guidelines, which establishes principles and guidelines for creating streets for all modes of transit. Within there, there's guidelines related to distance between each street, free placement, hierarchy, and larger streets and the type of tree you would plant. And then recommended tree size and then recommended tree well standards. And then there's title, title 10 chapter six of the municipal code, which is not

1282
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:34,940
specifically related to street trees, but it's related to the management of sidewalks.

1283
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:40,280
This municipal growth section establishes the homeowner responsibility for maintenance

1284
01:55:40,280 --> 01:55:44,040
of the sidewalks in front of their house in a reasonable condition.

1285
01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:49,520
And maintenance of sidewalk may include tree trimming, installation of root barriers

1286
01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:52,640
to ensure that the sidewalk does remain in said condition.

1287
01:55:53,420 --> 01:55:59,360
And then finally, there is assembly bill 2551, which is a cal fire led initiative to increase

1288
01:55:59,360 --> 01:56:03,420
tree canopy in urban areas by 10% by 2035.

1289
01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:10,540
So while the town has adopted all these standards and policies related to the protections of

1290
01:56:10,540 --> 01:56:13,420
these trees, there are still challenges to management of them.

1291
01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:17,640
The first being cost and liability associated with maintenance.

1292
01:56:18,420 --> 01:56:23,220
As mentioned, tree trees are the responsibility of, well, sidewalks are the responsibility

1293
01:56:23,220 --> 01:56:30,320
of the adjacent property owner, and trees can cause damages to sidewalks, and regular

1294
01:56:30,320 --> 01:56:35,480
maintenance and carousel trees is required to ensure the health and safety of the tree,

1295
01:56:35,580 --> 01:56:41,520
as well as the safety of the sidewalk. This maintenance can be costly to the property owner,

1296
01:56:41,940 --> 01:56:47,620
and the town does not have additional resources to assist property owners in management of this.

1297
01:56:47,620 --> 01:56:54,040
As a result, maintenance of street trees is mainly deferred until it becomes an issue or a hazard.

1298
01:56:55,320 --> 01:57:00,660
As a result, this prolonged lack of care typically results in the decline of the tree or the death of the tree.

1299
01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:04,620
And then there is conflicts with town regulation.

1300
01:57:05,380 --> 01:57:12,620
The town's tree preservation ordinance typically only allows removal of trees when it's dead, dangerous, hazardous.

1301
01:57:12,620 --> 01:57:18,040
and the ordinance prioritizes preservation first.

1302
01:57:18,280 --> 01:57:21,660
So what can we do to prevent this tree from being removed?

1303
01:57:21,820 --> 01:57:23,460
Are there options before we even consider

1304
01:57:23,460 --> 01:57:24,420
the removal route?

1305
01:57:24,920 --> 01:57:27,840
However, with Title 10 chapter six of the municipal code,

1306
01:57:28,540 --> 01:57:30,400
as the sidewalk needs to be maintained

1307
01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:34,120
in reasonable condition and with the typical deferred maintenance

1308
01:57:34,120 --> 01:57:36,380
that we're seeing with tree tree management,

1309
01:57:37,660 --> 01:57:40,600
by the time the tree is,

1310
01:57:40,820 --> 01:57:42,100
by the time we're talking about the tree,

1311
01:57:42,100 --> 01:57:48,200
it's already a hazard, it's already an issue, and it's difficult to look at other options

1312
01:57:48,200 --> 01:57:54,840
to protect the tree. At that point, as well, the standards, the town has adopted four sidewalks

1313
01:57:54,840 --> 01:58:00,560
are rigid, and there's not a lot of, the town has a specific standard related sidewalks that need

1314
01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:05,620
to be maintained, and so with street trees, there's not a lot of variability that could occur there.

1315
01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:13,000
So this conflict typically ends with the tree being removed, and then there's public knowledge.

1316
01:58:14,220 --> 01:58:19,740
Many residents and property owners are not aware that street trees are their responsibility as well.

1317
01:58:20,540 --> 01:58:25,600
These are, street trees are typically designated as property owner responsibility during the entitlement process.

1318
01:58:26,280 --> 01:58:31,580
This could be in the form of a condition of approval or a note on the final map of the project.

1319
01:58:31,580 --> 01:58:37,340
And as the development ages, this information may not be passed down to new property owners,

1320
01:58:37,840 --> 01:58:43,160
and this can result in property owners removing the tree without a permit, or unknowingly

1321
01:58:43,160 --> 01:58:45,460
removing it, or not maintaining it.

1322
01:58:47,080 --> 01:58:47,720
Oops.

1323
01:58:48,820 --> 01:58:49,980
And then finally, co-enforcement.

1324
01:58:50,760 --> 01:58:55,940
The tree preservation ordinance outlines civil penalties for the unlawful removal of

1325
01:58:55,940 --> 01:58:56,700
a tree tree.

1326
01:58:57,060 --> 01:58:59,760
However, enforcement of this ordinance is difficult.

1327
01:58:59,760 --> 01:59:11,680
The town's co-enforcement is complaint-based, so if someone were to remove a street tree and there is no complaint submitted, it's likely that the violation will go unresolved.

1328
01:59:12,120 --> 01:59:23,620
And based on data from the California's Urban Tree Canopy Bureau by Cal Fire, the town is currently the town lost around 109 acres of urban canopy between 2018 and 2022.

1329
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:27,900
So the town is actively losing more canopy than it is gaining.

1330
01:59:27,900 --> 01:59:33,840
This conflicts with the town's goals of note on loss of trees over a 10-year period.

1331
01:59:36,220 --> 01:59:40,840
So what is some alternative to current policy that could aid in these challenges?

1332
01:59:41,420 --> 01:59:43,940
One would be an urban forestry management plan.

1333
01:59:44,460 --> 01:59:50,640
This is a proactive approach to management of the urban forest in town and it aligns with

1334
01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:55,560
one of our general plan policies, ER-16, that the town shall pursue outreach, education,

1335
01:59:55,560 --> 01:59:59,220
and C-CRAP funding to develop and implement an Urban Forestry Management Plan.

1336
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:06,840
And a typical plan comprises a vision setting where we'd establish a shared goal or vision for street

1337
02:00:06,840 --> 02:00:13,120
trees in the town, an inventory and assessment of the town's current tree canopy, and then the strategic

1338
02:00:13,120 --> 02:00:19,540
planning, like I said, developing goals, objectives, standards, and then implementation, which is creating

1339
02:00:19,540 --> 02:00:26,240
detailed timelines and how we're actually going to do what we're saying. And then there, as mentioned,

1340
02:00:26,240 --> 02:00:33,000
there is a zoning text amendment where we could consider revising town regulation related to street

1341
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:39,620
trees, whether it be additional standards for street tree care, protection, et cetera. That is

1342
02:00:39,620 --> 02:00:46,960
another option the town could consider. And then finally an internal policy. Town staff at the

1343
02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:52,200
discretion of the town manager could develop an internal policy which covers minor street tree issues

1344
02:00:52,200 --> 02:00:57,680
views such as tree care, property owner disputes, maintenance, and how the town would respond

1345
02:00:57,680 --> 02:00:58,800
to these issues.

1346
02:00:59,860 --> 02:01:05,160
An internal policy would be more small-scale, and wouldn't be as proactive as, say, an

1347
02:01:05,160 --> 02:01:06,660
urban forestry management plan.

1348
02:01:09,680 --> 02:01:13,680
And so the recommended action tonight is to receive a presentation, take public comment,

1349
02:01:13,860 --> 02:01:18,580
and provide input to staff on the town's three trees policies, regulatory challenges, and

1350
02:01:18,580 --> 02:01:20,040
potential opportunities for change.

1351
02:01:20,640 --> 02:01:22,120
And that concludes my report.

1352
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:27,640
Thank you very much. We'll start with questions. Does anyone have questions for staff?

1353
02:01:32,240 --> 02:01:34,620
Yes, my excuse me. Okay, Council Member Leite.

1354
02:01:35,880 --> 02:01:40,640
You gave some statistics there, and thank you very much for this report. This is really

1355
02:01:40,640 --> 02:01:46,420
of interest to me as I'm going to relate in just a moment, but you gave some statistics there

1356
02:01:46,420 --> 02:01:54,340
about losing of canopy, and there wasn't too much discussion of that. Can you tell me a little

1357
02:01:54,340 --> 02:02:02,560
Not so much the numbers, but the reasons and what we're doing about it, and if we are

1358
02:02:02,560 --> 02:02:04,300
doing anything about it.

1359
02:02:05,620 --> 02:02:10,200
You know, some of the reasons were described in the report, you know, propioners may be removing

1360
02:02:10,200 --> 02:02:10,600
trees.

1361
02:02:10,840 --> 02:02:16,280
The town is currently dealing with the Mediterranean oak borer, which is taking out a lot

1362
02:02:16,280 --> 02:02:17,000
of our oak trees.

1363
02:02:18,400 --> 02:02:23,740
Yeah, so those PG need does a lot of tree line work that could result in removal of the urban

1364
02:02:23,740 --> 02:02:28,540
in canopy, and then Patrick, you have a lot of it does have to do with development patterns.

1365
02:02:29,400 --> 02:02:34,380
So, we are seeing based on fires and things like that, there's reduction in vegetation

1366
02:02:35,020 --> 02:02:41,900
that's taking place. And as was mentioned, like PG&E and Utilities lower in risk by removing trees.

1367
02:02:42,620 --> 02:02:48,540
But also, we haven't seen large-scale development of neighborhoods in the last several decades.

1368
02:02:48,540 --> 02:02:55,520
So while large subdivisions are put in place, the trees are planted and you get that additional canopy.

1369
02:02:57,120 --> 02:03:05,260
Now we've just had aging subdivisions where we're, as Mr. Locke mentioned, we're seeing, you know, a tree disappears here, a tree disappears there.

1370
02:03:05,440 --> 02:03:09,700
So over time, that canopy that was planted as a town expanded is disappearing.

1371
02:03:10,060 --> 02:03:16,700
So as we do have new development of new neighborhoods, we are adding to that canopy, but right now we're at a deficit, it seems.

1372
02:03:16,700 --> 02:03:25,820
Okay. And do you have, you mentioned both the management plan and the internal town policy?

1373
02:03:26,300 --> 02:03:33,340
Do you have a rough estimate on time and cost for each of those to create the urban forest

1374
02:03:33,340 --> 02:03:42,180
management plan versus the 4 a.m. the internal town policy about, I mean since, because today

1375
02:03:42,180 --> 02:03:47,460
we would give you direction, right? We would say, yeah, please go forward and do this or do that.

1376
02:03:47,460 --> 02:03:54,100
But any idea on if I could through the mayor. I think today was kind of a to dipping our toe in the water

1377
02:03:54,100 --> 02:04:01,440
If it's something that the council is interested in we could certainly receive that direction to go investigate that and then

1378
02:04:01,440 --> 02:04:09,000
Knowing the current situation with the budget we would most likely bring that back during the budget approval process as one of the options for council to consider

1379
02:04:09,000 --> 02:04:12,480
Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. Any other questions for staff?

1380
02:04:13,920 --> 02:04:14,940
I could yeah

1381
02:04:16,420 --> 02:04:26,160
Through this discussion, I think we've all noticed that street trees die and they're

1382
02:04:26,160 --> 02:04:26,780
not replaced.

1383
02:04:27,700 --> 02:04:33,040
And I think that was probably one of the reasons we're here tonight is that that's

1384
02:04:33,040 --> 02:04:37,540
part of the problem is street trees are not replaced because they're costly to replace.

1385
02:04:38,940 --> 02:04:44,720
Is there a method that we could give direction to come up with a plan to replace the

1386
02:04:44,720 --> 02:04:48,260
I'm missing street trees that are fairly obvious.

1387
02:04:50,870 --> 02:04:53,890
Again, that could be direction that you could have staff investigate.

1388
02:04:55,970 --> 02:04:59,970
Okay, I will mention that one of the things that we didn't mention in this report is we do have a

1389
02:05:02,780 --> 02:05:29,540
The first thing we ask is that they, well, first, we ask preserved trees as best as possible. If the trees can't be preserved, we ask that you replace them in kind. The third option is that you can pay into this tree mitigation fund, which the purpose of that fund is to plant trees elsewhere in town or to protect trees. So the council may recall a couple of years ago, we came asking to divert some of those, those funds to be used for protection of the oak trees.

1390
02:05:29,540 --> 02:05:51,600
to try different strategies. So, that fund exists as well. And that could be related to that internal policy of how we use that fund to focus on big ticket items like planting groves and parks or maybe looking out at where we are losing trees on the smaller scale street trees and replacing that using that revenue source.

1391
02:05:54,220 --> 02:05:59,700
There's just one more question to come here, is when we're looking and approving the design

1392
02:05:59,700 --> 02:06:06,340
of neighborhoods, I know that there's been neighborhoods where the street shoes were

1393
02:06:06,340 --> 02:06:12,200
planted and the root bowl wasn't done correctly so then it caused more problems with the sidewalks

1394
02:06:12,200 --> 02:06:16,100
and I've seen people cut their trees down because it's causing so much damage to their sidewalk

1395
02:06:16,100 --> 02:06:17,680
that they don't want the tree to continue to grow.

1396
02:06:17,680 --> 02:06:46,680
So is there like ways that were you know in our in our zoning in our building plan that says that to try to mitigate those those problems so that the street trees don't get cut down later or their smaller trees or some way or if that's maybe the direction that we're giving staff tonight is to try to find ways to make sure that the trees aren't going to destroy our sidewalks so the people leave them and yeah, that could be something that we see in the urban forestry plan or forestry management plan.

1397
02:06:46,680 --> 02:06:50,680
But also, there are best practices that have changed over time.

1398
02:06:50,840 --> 02:06:55,440
So now it is a requirement that we include in new street trees that Mr. Locke mentioned

1399
02:06:55,440 --> 02:07:00,760
root barriers as one of the options, so that it doesn't prevent root intrusion completely,

1400
02:07:00,940 --> 02:07:06,420
but it does significantly decrease the chance that you're going to have significant sidewalk

1401
02:07:06,420 --> 02:07:06,840
damage.

1402
02:07:07,220 --> 02:07:12,540
And that will last a long time because the tree conforms its roots to that barrier instead.

1403
02:07:13,100 --> 02:07:15,220
So we do incorporate best practices as best we can.

1404
02:07:15,220 --> 02:07:27,440
Thank you. Any other questions? No. I'm going to open it up to the public. Anyone from the public wishing to make a comment on this item 14.1 may do so by approaching the podium.

1405
02:07:30,320 --> 02:07:33,220
Seeing none, I'll bring you back to the council for discussion.

1406
02:07:34,580 --> 02:07:39,220
and input. Yeah, discussion input.

1407
02:07:40,260 --> 02:07:40,420
Sure.

1408
02:07:42,430 --> 02:07:46,690
Well, just in kind of a general way, I'm very interested in the town somehow,

1409
02:07:46,710 --> 02:07:56,630
rather, getting involved in advising or suggesting or financing or doing whatever is necessary or possible

1410
02:07:56,630 --> 02:08:06,410
to monitor the tree situation all around town and either get it back right or make it right.

1411
02:08:06,990 --> 02:08:11,770
And I'm really familiar with this because where I live, I don't watch this everywhere,

1412
02:08:12,110 --> 02:08:16,410
but where I live, I see it happening on a regular basis. I live in Oak Park.

1413
02:08:17,010 --> 02:08:23,730
And the developer, I believe it was the developer, when they installed the installs onward,

1414
02:08:23,730 --> 02:08:29,410
what they put in the development, they gave trees to the tree owners and they are these

1415
02:08:29,410 --> 02:08:33,130
some sort of oak tree. I don't know what it is. It's not the common oak that you're

1416
02:08:33,130 --> 02:08:39,530
or the fancy oak that you're used to. Anyway, and they're just, they are huge. I mean,

1417
02:08:40,450 --> 02:08:47,570
you know, 50, 50 feet tall, 60 feet tall, and people have over the years either cut them down,

1418
02:08:47,570 --> 02:08:53,530
which is an incredible thing. It's necessary. They give a lot of nice shade or they trim them.

1419
02:08:53,530 --> 02:08:58,510
And it's really, really expensive and there is one guy who out on the corner near me on

1420
02:08:58,510 --> 02:09:05,610
gridley and Shiloh, it was ruining the sidewalk he took out a tree and he put in a new sidewalk.

1421
02:09:05,910 --> 02:09:11,510
Okay, fine. And the sidewalk's the wrong color. So, you know, it's it's a light gray instead

1422
02:09:11,510 --> 02:09:16,570
of a brownish gray or whatever is in there. And I don't know how that occurred or why that occurred.

1423
02:09:16,570 --> 02:09:24,910
So I think these things do need potential, special attention and increased attention.

1424
02:09:25,710 --> 02:09:28,890
So I'm in favor of going back and having a look at that.

1425
02:09:30,950 --> 02:09:31,770
Anyone else?

1426
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:24,020
As an example, when Mr. Streeter mentioned, if a developer removes a tree, and I know we try to help them or guide them towards mitigating that, right? But if they remove a 75-year-old oak tree and plant this little guy and call that even swap, so I think there's some maybe strategic parts of the policy we can look at. Yeah.

1427
02:10:26,110 --> 02:10:31,150
I think a tree mitigation policy, if it's implemented in force,

1428
02:10:32,850 --> 02:10:36,430
is works because it's not, it's, it's expensive.

1429
02:10:37,150 --> 02:10:44,990
If you take out a heritage tree or oak tree is protected and it's large, the cost is,

1430
02:10:46,770 --> 02:10:48,770
I think the cost is great.

1431
02:10:49,010 --> 02:10:51,110
I don't think it's just replanting a small tree.

1432
02:10:51,290 --> 02:10:52,070
Is that correct, Patrick?

1433
02:10:53,230 --> 02:10:53,910
That is correct.

1434
02:10:53,970 --> 02:10:56,350
There's a calculation and so are there calculations?

1435
02:10:56,350 --> 02:11:05,290
I think the problem I'm seeing is we've got a goal to increase the tree canopy in the town by 10%

1436
02:11:06,150 --> 02:11:10,790
I think I heard, and yet we've lost 19%.

1437
02:11:10,790 --> 02:11:17,370
I mean so you put those together and we've got a problem because it doesn't fit with our greenhouse gas goals

1438
02:11:17,370 --> 02:11:24,310
it doesn't fit with sustainability and I don't know that an urban forest management plan

1439
02:11:24,310 --> 02:11:30,910
And it will solve the problem, the problem is one of planning the trees.

1440
02:11:31,690 --> 02:11:35,270
I know in my neighborhood the trees are not, and they're not street trees.

1441
02:11:35,750 --> 02:11:38,630
They were put in by the developer and they're in the front yard.

1442
02:11:39,530 --> 02:11:42,690
And the vast majority of those are gone.

1443
02:11:44,190 --> 02:11:51,250
And I think there's, I don't think there's any violation in that aspect.

1444
02:11:51,250 --> 02:11:54,730
because they weren't protected trees.

1445
02:11:56,230 --> 02:11:58,110
They're kind of an ornamental tree.

1446
02:11:58,830 --> 02:12:02,710
But somehow if we can come up with something

1447
02:12:02,710 --> 02:12:06,250
that would generate people planting trees,

1448
02:12:06,630 --> 02:12:09,370
maybe that is their enforced management plan.

1449
02:12:09,530 --> 02:12:16,450
I don't know, but my fear is we have a plan

1450
02:12:16,450 --> 02:12:19,490
and it's a booklet.

1451
02:12:19,490 --> 02:12:25,430
But, and then we don't have the ability to do the enforcement or do the implementation

1452
02:12:25,430 --> 02:12:26,630
and getting the trees planted.

1453
02:12:27,750 --> 02:12:35,610
So I'd be looking to see how we can, you know, can we provide trees and advertise a

1454
02:12:35,610 --> 02:12:42,570
day where people can come and get a tree and have neighborhood, you know, to just kind

1455
02:12:42,570 --> 02:12:44,170
of try to bring it back to Earth.

1456
02:12:44,910 --> 02:12:45,690
I don't know.

1457
02:12:48,450 --> 02:13:15,670
I agree. I think I don't know if that would be in the urban management plan, or it would be partnering with a nonprofit that does do work like this that doesn't encourage people to plant trees and hold events that they give away tree or offer them a super low cost because I think that it's not going to be a combination of us having updated policies that incentivize people to plant trees and incentivize the help that the town is going to be doing.

1458
02:13:15,670 --> 02:13:21,810
can offer to keep the trees there, but plus having events that bring this to the towns,

1459
02:13:23,410 --> 02:13:28,750
you know, which brings it to their awareness so that they aren't encouraged to plant trees.

1460
02:13:29,050 --> 02:13:34,290
We were lucky. We planted four trees this year in our yard. And so we're super excited about that.

1461
02:13:34,390 --> 02:13:37,470
They're going to take years and years before they're big enough to provide any sort of shade.

1462
02:13:37,470 --> 02:13:43,390
And so I feel like the sooner we do it, the better. And I do like each year our town park

1463
02:13:43,390 --> 02:13:48,150
trees are just getting more beautiful and bigger and so that's really encouraging but continuing

1464
02:13:48,150 --> 02:13:52,610
to try to bring this to light so that people know that they're not supposed to cut their

1465
02:13:52,610 --> 02:13:58,870
street trees down and that they know that if they do cut one down they're encouraged to plant one

1466
02:13:58,870 --> 02:14:05,130
in its place and then but yeah so in any way that we can look at these policies I'm going to

1467
02:14:05,130 --> 02:14:10,610
agreement with that. Yeah I definitely would like to look at the internal town policy I think that

1468
02:14:10,610 --> 02:14:19,410
might be a little bit something that we could definitely put enough time in to make something

1469
02:14:19,950 --> 02:14:26,270
sooner than later than I'd imagine an urban forest man in a plant would take a little bit longer.

1470
02:14:27,350 --> 02:14:34,730
But I do recall it was a big discussion moving forward with new developments that we have to figure out

1471
02:14:34,730 --> 02:14:41,350
What are the right trees to plant from the get-go for new developments coming in?

1472
02:14:41,470 --> 02:14:45,090
And hopefully I think we have something in there for that.

1473
02:14:45,550 --> 02:14:46,210
I hope we do.

1474
02:14:46,350 --> 02:14:48,230
If we don't, we need to look at that closely.

1475
02:14:48,950 --> 02:14:55,410
Another thing is it is a financial burden and I think a lot of people rather than maintaining

1476
02:14:55,410 --> 02:14:59,050
the tree will head it down, unfortunately.

1477
02:14:59,050 --> 02:14:59,850
I recall.

1478
02:15:02,280 --> 02:15:20,060
So, what are we going to do? Hopefully there is. Maybe there is a nonprofit. Because I know we talked about a few years ago, coming up with a plan to help finance the people that can pay afford it and maybe partner up. But I don't know where we're heading with that. But again, education is a big piece.

1479
02:15:22,300 --> 02:15:27,700
And yeah, so I hopefully we can do something sooner than later.

1480
02:15:27,700 --> 02:15:31,760
to keep this conversation going and activate something.

1481
02:15:32,920 --> 02:15:36,720
Do you think we could reach out to the community and advise them

1482
02:15:36,720 --> 02:15:39,280
what our problem is?

1483
02:15:39,460 --> 02:15:42,940
If it is a problem, for me, it's a problem.

1484
02:15:43,200 --> 02:15:47,060
If we're a goal to increase the tree canopy by 10%,

1485
02:15:47,060 --> 02:15:52,320
and we're going backwards, I think we need to tell the community that,

1486
02:15:53,930 --> 02:15:58,430
and that may generate someone planning a tree.

1487
02:15:59,970 --> 02:16:07,030
If I could, councilmember Sam, to your point, following the adoption of council of that

1488
02:16:07,030 --> 02:16:13,350
new ordinance, well, it wasn't a new ordinance, restating the ordinance about the responsibility

1489
02:16:13,350 --> 02:16:16,070
of the homeowner for the sidewalk in front of their home.

1490
02:16:16,650 --> 02:16:18,970
We did start to develop an outreach program.

1491
02:16:19,470 --> 02:16:24,790
At that time, the outreach program also included the potential, as Mayor Renosa discussed,

1492
02:16:25,450 --> 02:16:26,770
for some town assistance.

1493
02:16:26,770 --> 02:16:31,490
However, that was shelved due to the current budget situation, and it is something that

1494
02:16:31,490 --> 02:16:36,650
we would like to bring back in the future should, you know, our fiscal position allow

1495
02:16:36,650 --> 02:16:37,030
it.

1496
02:16:37,430 --> 02:16:44,270
Either way, though, we could certainly tweak that noticing a little bit to not only remind

1497
02:16:44,270 --> 02:16:48,670
people of responsibility, but also perhaps offer ways that they can help mitigate in the

1498
02:16:48,670 --> 02:16:56,310
short-term and the overall problem that we're having with the non-destruction but the reduction

1499
02:16:56,310 --> 02:17:01,990
of the canopy. So I think we can do those things there that I heard and thank you.

1500
02:17:02,310 --> 02:17:07,190
Yeah, I think that's a good idea to at least move forward with that part, a part of it

1501
02:17:07,190 --> 02:17:14,270
for now. All right, anyone else? We're good? Are you upset? Okay, thank you so much for

1502
02:17:14,270 --> 02:17:23,150
that. Thank you great. And then last but not least in the section 14.2 direction of voting delegates

1503
02:17:23,570 --> 02:17:32,910
on town's position for the CalCities meeting that's happening next week or the week after.

1504
02:17:33,510 --> 02:17:38,310
One is a week after next Friday next Friday next Friday.

1505
02:17:42,360 --> 02:17:43,100
Okay.

1506
02:17:49,100 --> 02:17:52,040
Thank you and good evening Mayor and

1507
02:17:52,040 --> 02:17:59,820
council member. So Irene, come on to your worthy town clerk. Yes, so that is the actionable item

1508
02:17:59,820 --> 02:18:05,920
before you tonight is to provide direction to your voting delegates on the proposed resolution

1509
02:18:05,920 --> 02:18:13,120
that will be heard at the business meeting on Friday the 25th at the CalCities annual conference.

1510
02:18:13,800 --> 02:18:21,480
As a reminder, the town is a member of CalCities. That's why you are able to have a voting

1511
02:18:21,480 --> 02:18:23,060
delegate in alternates.

1512
02:18:26,490 --> 02:18:31,710
And at the meeting of, let's see, one of our previous meetings,

1513
02:18:32,410 --> 02:18:39,490
this council chose councilmember salmon as the primary voting delegate with alternates

1514
02:18:39,490 --> 02:18:46,770
being councilmember leap and vice mayor potter. And the resolution did come after the

1515
02:18:46,770 --> 02:18:53,710
delegation assignments were made as part of the packet for Cal cities. So the resolution

1516
02:18:53,710 --> 02:18:57,870
they're calling it on local housing and land use authority.

1517
02:18:58,730 --> 02:19:03,830
The action before you is going to be to direct your voting delegates

1518
02:19:03,830 --> 02:19:08,510
to either be in support of the resolution in opposition

1519
02:19:08,510 --> 02:19:12,890
or just fully grant them the delegation voting discretion

1520
02:19:12,890 --> 02:19:14,070
at the meeting.

1521
02:19:16,510 --> 02:19:19,950
The proposed resolution came about,

1522
02:19:20,270 --> 02:19:23,750
it was introduced by the City of Murietta

1523
02:19:23,750 --> 02:19:28,630
with concurrence from six other cities along with two

1524
02:19:28,630 --> 02:19:30,510
mayorial endorsements.

1525
02:19:30,650 --> 02:19:36,950
It did follow what is required to submit a resolution

1526
02:19:36,950 --> 02:19:40,530
through the CalCities bylaws, move through the various committees,

1527
02:19:40,530 --> 02:19:45,210
and then under consideration by the General Assembly at the annual meeting.

1528
02:19:46,030 --> 02:19:51,410
This came about where the state's push to increase housing production

1529
02:19:51,410 --> 02:19:55,570
was rooted in legitimate need for more homes,

1530
02:19:55,770 --> 02:19:58,970
but as we all have experienced the approach

1531
02:19:58,970 --> 02:19:59,970
has also produced.

1532
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:29,320
We've used a bottleneck of challenges at the local level. Several communities are being asked to accommodate significant housing growth while simultaneously dealing with infrastructure, transportation, water, public services, and planning constraints. So as more decisions have shifted from local government to the state, both residents and local officials have increasingly questioned how much control.

1533
02:20:29,320 --> 02:20:35,360
the committee should retain over their own growth and development and so the proposed

1534
02:20:35,360 --> 02:20:42,260
resolution will work with CalCities to establish a group that's tasked with evaluating the

1535
02:20:42,260 --> 02:20:48,660
state constitutional amendments and or ballot-based legislative strategies to then restore

1536
02:20:49,280 --> 02:20:56,300
possible or where possible municipal authority, especially around housing and land use decisions.

1537
02:20:56,840 --> 02:20:57,360
The

1538
02:21:02,420 --> 02:21:12,780
full resolution was part of the packet, and again, I'm just here to take note of direction so I can provide that information to your voting delegates.

1539
02:21:14,280 --> 02:21:16,940
But if I can, I'm happy to answer any questions.

1540
02:21:17,360 --> 02:21:20,620
Thank you very much. Any questions for our town clerk?

1541
02:21:21,640 --> 02:21:22,980
I don't have a question, but I would comment.

1542
02:21:24,460 --> 02:21:28,580
The one question would be, I apologize Council on that, I'm not going to go.

1543
02:21:28,580 --> 02:21:34,760
So, one of the alternates you can choose to be the voting delegate.

1544
02:21:35,680 --> 02:21:40,500
Is that something we can do today to change that? Do we need to?

1545
02:21:40,800 --> 02:21:43,440
No, the alternates can be on the day of.

1546
02:21:44,780 --> 02:21:46,280
That's why we have two alternates.

1547
02:21:48,160 --> 02:21:49,540
Okay, any other questions?

1548
02:21:51,040 --> 02:21:52,320
Okay, I'll go ahead and open to the public.

1549
02:21:53,620 --> 02:21:54,740
Anyone with comments?

1550
02:21:54,740 --> 02:21:56,680
No, no, I won't.

1551
02:21:59,480 --> 02:22:01,080
I hope he's about supporting me.

1552
02:22:01,080 --> 02:22:03,300
I'm fighting behind the return.

1553
02:22:04,180 --> 02:22:05,440
Hi, I'm still Betsy.

1554
02:22:08,360 --> 02:22:10,560
I would hope this would be a no-brainer.

1555
02:22:11,880 --> 02:22:13,680
I haven't heard anybody say anything,

1556
02:22:13,860 --> 02:22:15,300
so it's not like I can make a comment.

1557
02:22:15,860 --> 02:22:18,420
But I hear this council again and again say

1558
02:22:18,420 --> 02:22:20,480
we have no choice in this.

1559
02:22:20,620 --> 02:22:21,940
It's out of our control.

1560
02:22:22,540 --> 02:22:23,580
It's state mandated.

1561
02:22:23,920 --> 02:22:26,180
So I would certainly hope that you support

1562
02:22:26,180 --> 02:22:33,420
this resolution, which I have not read, restoring local authority over housing and land use decision, and not

1563
02:22:33,420 --> 02:22:39,700
oppose it or leave it for somebody's discretion during this meeting. Thank you. Thank you.

1564
02:22:40,520 --> 02:22:44,020
Seeing no one else from the public, although I had a return to councilor discussion.

1565
02:22:45,300 --> 02:22:52,580
So are two members attending? Council member Leap and Vice Mayor Potter, do you guys

1566
02:22:53,280 --> 02:22:58,900
want to start by telling us what your thoughts are on this, or did you want our input?

1567
02:23:00,660 --> 02:23:05,380
Either way? I mean, I'm going to give it to you either way. I'd like to hear from you guys.

1568
02:23:05,620 --> 02:23:10,520
I would just like to say I may not be able to attend next week, so that is still up in the air.

1569
02:23:11,920 --> 02:23:15,920
But I would be in support of the resolution. I think that we have enough

1570
02:23:15,920 --> 02:23:19,780
of local control already been taken away from us.

1571
02:23:19,860 --> 02:23:24,820
And I think that each city in the state of California

1572
02:23:24,820 --> 02:23:28,160
has a different priorities and different personalities

1573
02:23:28,160 --> 02:23:31,400
and they should be able to decide on their own land use

1574
02:23:31,400 --> 02:23:32,320
and housing.

1575
02:23:32,800 --> 02:23:35,960
And so having broad sweeps by the legislation

1576
02:23:36,640 --> 02:23:40,800
to try to, and I understand it's to provide enough housing

1577
02:23:41,160 --> 02:23:44,320
by some of the laws that are enacted that might work great

1578
02:23:44,320 --> 02:23:49,780
for large cities don't necessarily work well for Windsor. And so I would be in support of it.

1579
02:23:50,860 --> 02:23:54,100
And Council Member Leap, you're definitely going to be there?

1580
02:23:54,620 --> 02:24:01,360
I am definitely going to be there. I'm thinking of now hiring a limo to get me from the airport

1581
02:24:02,120 --> 02:24:11,420
and lock me in the convention hall. Yes, I am and I read all of this and like Betsy,

1582
02:24:11,420 --> 02:24:21,000
I have I feel the same way she does. Mark your calendar there. Okay, and I'm in favor of it as vice mayor for her was

1583
02:24:21,860 --> 02:24:29,780
Okay, I can talk to you offline, but if I need to go I can go but I'm not on the list that I wouldn't be able to vote

1584
02:24:29,780 --> 02:24:33,480
That's correct. It's so too it's already passed that okay

1585
02:24:33,980 --> 02:24:37,940
So when I make a difference if I decided to jump on last minute or not

1586
02:24:39,200 --> 02:24:42,700
Okay, we'll talk offline, but I mean, I can't vote, but that's already been written.

1587
02:24:42,700 --> 02:24:42,860
Right.

1588
02:24:42,980 --> 02:24:47,880
As a member, you'd be able to attend the conference, but since you were not a designated

1589
02:24:48,900 --> 02:24:49,700
voteee, then.

1590
02:24:50,300 --> 02:24:50,700
Okay.

1591
02:24:51,560 --> 02:24:51,660
Okay.

1592
02:24:51,860 --> 02:24:52,580
We'll talk offline.

1593
02:24:52,820 --> 02:24:52,960
We'll see.

1594
02:24:53,360 --> 02:24:53,900
Very good.

1595
02:24:53,980 --> 02:24:54,880
Anyone else?

1596
02:24:55,000 --> 02:24:55,120
Go ahead.

1597
02:24:55,480 --> 02:24:55,720
I do.

1598
02:24:56,760 --> 02:24:59,240
I think just for the record.

1599
02:25:00,700 --> 02:25:29,980
If this resolution's approved, it kind of makes a working group to start to look at how this could happen. And the group that I've been following, a group that has a name, this is generated out to Southern California. And I think it has a lot of possibilities to help us with issues. And I think as it goes through, we'll still see.

1600
02:25:29,980 --> 02:25:36,920
maybe this will change and it will be a carrot instead of a stick because it seems like

1601
02:25:36,920 --> 02:25:44,940
right now we deal with the stick. There's really no reward for doing the right thing and

1602
02:25:44,940 --> 02:25:56,040
as we saw in every meeting so this may lead to helping us continue to have a good community

1603
02:25:56,040 --> 02:26:00,780
that's enough said. So I'm very supportive of the proposed resolution.

1604
02:26:01,700 --> 02:26:04,740
All right. Anyone else with directions? Are we good?

1605
02:26:05,800 --> 02:26:12,880
You're good. Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Moving on now, any individual council member

1606
02:26:12,880 --> 02:26:20,260
report comments? So we gave direction. Yes, you have direction. Well, yeah, I thought the direction

1607
02:26:20,260 --> 02:26:29,240
was was going to ask Irene to prepare the documents or yeah to vote yes yes okay now moving on

1608
02:26:29,240 --> 02:26:38,100
15.1 any report outs on meetings or want to share anything I've got one report I want and it

1609
02:26:38,100 --> 02:26:44,000
kind of fits with Creek Week um last week the Reston River Watershed Association met and JB thank

1610
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:49,200
you for coming JB was in attendance um and I think we you know if we talk about Creek Week you

1611
02:26:49,200 --> 02:26:54,720
talk about the Russian River. I think of importance is the county of Sonoma has put forth either

1612
02:26:54,720 --> 02:27:03,240
a million or two million dollars to do a study to kind of bring together in an authority

1613
02:27:03,240 --> 02:27:12,480
type the Russian River watershed entities, Mendocino and Sonoma. And this might be, I made

1614
02:27:12,480 --> 02:27:18,020
the comment at the media, it might be something like the transportation authority that has kind

1615
02:27:18,020 --> 02:27:26,000
a separate individual, JPA powers, and they're going to look at that because right now everything's

1616
02:27:26,000 --> 02:27:30,960
done by individual cities and in the counties. It's all kind of, we try, the rest of the

1617
02:27:30,960 --> 02:27:38,420
rubber watershed association tries to coordinate much of the efforts to sustain the, sustain and

1618
02:27:38,420 --> 02:27:47,120
improve the rest of the rubber quality. But it's, I think it's an interesting and valuable process

1619
02:27:47,120 --> 02:27:51,440
and just that the county put forth the money is interesting.

1620
02:27:52,160 --> 02:27:54,720
And of course, when we say the county put forth the money,

1621
02:27:54,860 --> 02:27:57,720
I think really we're also looking at Sonoma water,

1622
02:27:57,720 --> 02:28:00,460
although the money doesn't come from Sonoma water,

1623
02:28:00,620 --> 02:28:01,860
but it's the same board.

1624
02:28:02,040 --> 02:28:05,120
It's like we're the Windsor Water District

1625
02:28:05,120 --> 02:28:07,280
and Windsor Council,

1626
02:28:07,700 --> 02:28:10,740
and so the board of supervisors are Sonoma water.

1627
02:28:11,460 --> 02:28:13,320
So that's my little report.

1628
02:28:13,320 --> 02:28:24,180
Okay. Anyone else? Sure. So I appreciated Town Manager Davis is bringing that information

1629
02:28:24,180 --> 02:28:30,520
about the bike lane over there under 101 and that was really fun to watch that go down.

1630
02:28:30,960 --> 02:28:35,700
There was another very interesting thing that happened at that meeting and I can't really

1631
02:28:35,700 --> 02:28:40,460
report on it now. I'd love to have them come in here and do this, but there are huge

1632
02:28:40,460 --> 02:28:52,120
plans for Highway 37. It is absolutely amazing. Yeah really huge plans and I think everybody should

1633
02:28:52,120 --> 02:28:58,400
know about it and the public should have a chance to see what's going on down there and because

1634
02:28:58,400 --> 02:29:05,960
it's going to be an incredible disruption a lot of money and a new toll booth in both directions

1635
02:29:05,960 --> 02:29:12,000
for five bucks probably. So anyway but we're talking you know in 29 or 30 or something like that.

1636
02:29:12,720 --> 02:29:17,800
But very very interesting the developments that are going on way too much for me to say here.

1637
02:29:18,240 --> 02:29:24,540
So John I forgot to give you that little gem. Would you keep us posted if there is

1638
02:29:25,360 --> 02:29:31,720
an important meeting where the public should or could give feedback like that's something that I

1639
02:29:31,720 --> 02:29:33,580
I always felt going to those meetings.

1640
02:29:34,460 --> 02:29:37,400
I felt there wasn't enough time in advance

1641
02:29:37,400 --> 02:29:42,280
where to let this is your time to speak now.

1642
02:29:42,480 --> 02:29:44,800
I feel like things happen so fast there sometimes.

1643
02:29:45,880 --> 02:29:47,020
So anyway, just keep that in mind.

1644
02:29:47,020 --> 02:29:50,220
Well, I can definitely ask the executive director down there

1645
02:29:50,220 --> 02:29:53,280
because it's the same environment here

1646
02:29:53,280 --> 02:29:54,240
as the public comment.

1647
02:29:54,360 --> 02:29:56,520
Yeah, I'm just trying to, yeah, so hard to stay

1648
02:29:56,520 --> 02:29:57,320
on top of everything.

1649
02:29:58,700 --> 02:29:59,800
OK, anyone else?

1650
02:30:02,420 --> 02:30:08,360
No? Okay. Moving on to council requests for future agenda items.

1651
02:30:10,660 --> 02:30:11,740
Councilmember Salmon.

1652
02:30:15,860 --> 02:30:25,100
Again, I think we were in the middle of the specific, the downtown specific plan, but I am

1653
02:30:25,100 --> 02:30:33,820
I'm very interested in studying the coordination of the new mill project, the Windsor Creek

1654
02:30:33,820 --> 02:30:41,760
School site, and the Corps Creek, and whatever we can do to kind of bring those forward

1655
02:30:41,760 --> 02:30:45,560
to look at them in an overall kind of way.

1656
02:30:46,480 --> 02:30:53,900
And for us to determine what we'd like to see, and I think the planning commission should

1657
02:30:53,900 --> 02:31:00,360
be involved, too, so that so that we can kind of see what we want because again, I think

1658
02:31:00,880 --> 02:31:07,460
with the state kind of doing our planning for us in terms of the density, it really takes

1659
02:31:07,460 --> 02:31:14,960
away a lot of ability to plan. And so just something to think about, and I can, yeah.

1660
02:31:16,060 --> 02:31:20,620
I would second that. I am very much in agreement with that. I think that's a really important

1661
02:31:20,620 --> 02:31:29,200
area of town and I think that I would like to see it planned out by the town in our

1662
02:31:29,200 --> 02:31:34,300
station area plan so that as the developers come in, it's already like it's already laid

1663
02:31:34,300 --> 02:31:38,980
out and then there's not a very disjointed way of looking at it because of the three different

1664
02:31:38,980 --> 02:31:39,460
developments.

1665
02:31:43,340 --> 02:31:44,260
Anyone else?

1666
02:31:45,060 --> 02:31:49,720
So I'm going to, I've had the discussion with the town manager a couple of times about

1667
02:31:50,440 --> 02:31:56,320
And I know it's something that is we've had a lot of great information, great

1668
02:31:56,320 --> 02:32:02,160
in presentations. We have all the facts provided to us, but I still, for the

1669
02:32:02,160 --> 02:32:09,360
public's sake and new data, new information coming out. I just, so I'm not going

1670
02:32:09,360 --> 02:32:12,560
to ask for an agenda item right now, but I just want to let you know that I will

1671
02:32:12,560 --> 02:32:19,380
continue to figure out what it is at a town hall. I just feel like not addressing

1672
02:32:19,380 --> 02:32:26,960
it further is not a good thing. I just a transparency is super important. How we go about that I'm

1673
02:32:26,960 --> 02:32:31,300
not sure yet, but I just want to let the council know that it is something that I will continue

1674
02:32:31,880 --> 02:32:38,060
to have a discussion with our town manager to figure something out. So that's it for me,

1675
02:32:38,380 --> 02:32:44,000
anything else before I turn? I would just like to comment on that, Mary, that I think that transparency is

1676
02:32:44,000 --> 02:32:55,600
It's super important for flock as well and I'll be attending the flock meeting tomorrow night at the city of Santa Rosa and encourage everyone to go to them and and try to get information from that as well.

1677
02:32:55,920 --> 02:33:06,760
And would be open to putting on a similar type of meeting here at the town of Windsor for that so people can have their questions asked, give feedback all of that and have that be run by our town staff.

1678
02:33:06,760 --> 02:33:11,900
Perfect. Thank you for that. Okay, I will go ahead and adjourn this meeting. Thank you, everybody.

1679
02:33:14,500 --> 02:33:15,140
Thank you, Rosa.