The Santa Rosa City Council met on December 5, 2023, starting with a closed session at 3:00 PM and reconvening in open session at 4:00 PM. The meeting included proclamations, staff briefings, consent items, reports, and public hearings. The Council took unanimous votes on all agenda items, including approving a purchase order for eight Ford trucks, expanding a residential permit parking zone, adopting revised animal services fees, introducing a hazardous vegetation ordinance, and accepting the Measure O annual report with a name change for the oversight committee.
I'd like to ask the interpreter currently in the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting. For those just joining the meeting, live translation in Spanish is available, and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish, can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon in the Zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Please make your way to the podium. Okay, welcome everyone to our December 5th Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now four PM, and we will be starting our meeting. If you're in the chamber, would you like to comment? But if please make your way to the podium, you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. At as you approach the podium, please state your name for the record if you choose to do so. Please go ahead when you're ready. All right, my name is Duane. I'm Rosalind 2.3. Ski Coast is located at former Stan Brown gas station. I think you folks need to understand that below that ground, leading underground storage thanks from the old days, all that pollution and all that type of situation dealt with in the future. It might not be talked about right now. But there's federal money available to help with that site. Should you go forward and try and purchase this site at a brown field? And that's where the EPA comes in. So ski goes is that site. Nobody may have said that to you yet, but look back at the records. Stan Brown's Mohawk gas station. Lots of kids I know were there when we were young. So I know there's a pollution there. I know that's all secret right now, but hopefully in the future you can talk with the community that goes by their ball the time. And thank you for all your efforts to make Roseland a better place. Thank you. We have no additional speakers on this item. Thank you. Moving on to our proclamation for this afternoon, which will be read by Councilmember McDonald. Thank you, Mayor. It's my honor that I get to actually do this proclamation tonight, so I appreciate that. So this proclamation is for Eddie Currell. Am I saying it wrong? Curry. Thanks. Whereas Streets Cruise Supervisor Eddie Kirriel has well and faithfully served the city of Santa Rosa for 49 years, exemplifying the commitment to make Santa Rosa a safe place to live, work, and play. And whereas on December 4th, 1974, Eddie was hired as a temporary maintenance worker in the public words street section of the city. And whereas in 1984, Eddie was promoted to the streets cruise supervisor, a position he still holds today. In Eddie's storied career, he has seen the city grow from a population of 83,000 to over 175,000. And whereas he's been through numerous floods and fires that have impacted the city greatly, all the while tirelessly serving this community the best he can. And whereas on December 4th, 2023, Eddie worked his last day for the same public works street cruise section, he was originally hired to. And whereas over the years, Eddie has been an upstanding employee and major contributor to the streets team by giving exceptional customer service and offering his wealth of knowledge, mentorship, and sense of humor to one and all. Eddie Curie will definitely be missed. Now, therefore, be it resolved that our mayor Natalie Rogers of the City of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire city council do by hear thank you, Eddie Currier, for his four 49 years of dedication and service to this city. Congratulations on your retirement. Can you go to the podium so everyone can hear you? Well, Eddie says thank you. Um, if no one could hear that, and those at home. So Madam City Clerk. Would you please facilitate public comment?