The Santa Rosa City Council met on February 27, 2024, in a regular session that began with a closed session at 1:30 p.m. and reconvened in open session at 4:00 p.m. The meeting included a staff briefing on FEMA flood risk mapping, approval of consent items, and extensive public comment on non-agenda matters, primarily calling for a ceasefire resolution regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. The previously scheduled public hearing on the Bunya Bunya tree removal appeal was continued to a date uncertain.
All right. Yes, we can hear you. Gonna get more great relief to my park. 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 of the meeting or live translation of 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. Once you join the Spanish channel, we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation. Interpreter, will you please restate this in Spanish? So that I can't see it. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember Okrepke. Councilmember McDonald. Councilmember Alvarez. Vice Mayor Stapp. Mayor Rogers present. Let the record reflect all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember McDonald and Alvarez. Thank you. We will now proceed to item three point one conference with legal counsel about existing legitic litigation. Item three point two, conference with legal counsel about existing litigation and item three point three, conference with labor negotiators. Madam Deputy City Clerk, can you please facilitate public comment on these items? We are now taking public comment on closed session items three point one, three point two, and three point three. If you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name, please make your way to the podium. You will have two minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of the period. 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. He said he knew a family that lived a short walk from the crossing. When the son and daughter went to the JC, they rode their blanks and walked through the Jennings Crossing on their way to their classes and their student jobs at the JC. The mom in the family was a bookkeeper and started c taking classes at the JC to learn about computerized bookkeeping. She went on at the JC to go from being a student to being full-time faculty at the school. She also rode her bike or walked through the Jennings Crossing to her job at the JC for years. That man told the council then that keeping the Jennings Crossing open was important, that it was the only link between the two sides of our neighborhood which is otherwise split by the smart rail one. And the council got it and directed staff to move forward on getting the approval from the California Public Utilities Commission. That man was me. That family is mine. But the crossing has been closed to all the families in our neighborhood for years now. This council must direct staff to do whatever is necessary so as to get the CPU C approved Judd's crossing built and reopened. Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm seeing no additional speakers on this item. Thank you. And with that, we will recess into closed session. Okay. Welcome everyone to our February twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-four, Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now four. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember O'Krepke. Here. Councilmember McDonald.