The Santa Rosa City Council met on July 23, 2024, beginning with a 12:35 p.m. closed session, followed by a study session and regular meeting. The Council heard a transit integration study, approved a seven-item consent calendar, adopted a retail tobacco sales licensing ordinance, and confirmed the annual weed abatement report. The meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
Locate the three dots, tap them lightly, and put a check mark on your preferred language. Click done to activate them and begin the interpretation. Once you join the Spanish channel, we recommend you shut off main audio so you only hear the Spanish interpretation. Interpreter, will you please restate this in Spanish? Yes, thank you. So I've said two uh tablets vanotar three punto in la parte superior, a mano derecha or la parte inferior de su pantalla. A backlash puntitos, ustedes van a notar uh. Ya que ustedes terminan uh terminar ordenera ustedes pueden disfrutar de esta junta de una manera simultanea. Uhuda, estamos asesorines. Muchas gracias. Thank you very much. Back to you. Hello, and welcome everyone to our July twenty-third, twenty twenty-four, Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now twelve thirty-five, and we will be starting our meeting. Certainly. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember O'Krepki. Here. Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Alvarez. Present. Vice Mayor Stepp. Here. Mayor Rogers. President. Let the record show all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember Fleming. We'll be moving on to item three. But prior to doing that, I would like to give a special shout out to our special guest that we have here at the chambers. Um our most vocal special guests, we have uh little Shay here, um, who you might hear throughout the beginning of the meeting. So welcome to our special little guest. Um we'll now proceed to items 3.1 through 3.5, which are closed session items. Uh conference with 3.1 conference with legal counsel about existing legitic litigation, 3.2, conference with real property negotiators, 3.3, conference with real property negotiators, 3.4, conference with real property negotiators and 3.5, conference with labor negotiators. Madam City Clerk, can you please facilitate public comment on these items? Thank you, Mayor. We are now taking public comment on closed session items 3.1 through 3.5. If you are in the chamber and would like to make a comment but have not yet provided a speaker card, please make your way to the podium. You will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period. As you approach the podium, please state your name for the record if you choose to do so. The first speaker will be Sam, followed by Ken, then Eli. Sam, go ahead. Uh every crisis that the city has faced, from tubbs to the global pandemic, they've answered the call. They've always been there for you and for the city. Uh now we need you to be here for us. In my time here, I've watched our department fall to the very bottom of our comparable cities. Your firefighters are the worst paid. 10th out of 10 in our survey. Dead last. Being dead last is not just bad for the employees.