The Santa Rosa City Council convened on August 5, 2025, with a full agenda focusing on public service appointments, transit planning, and community updates. Key activities included interviewing seven applicants for Housing Authority commissioner positions, receiving updates on the Marin-Sonoma Coordinated Transit Service Plan (MASCOTS), and reviewing the annual diversity report for city boards and commissions. The council also addressed consent items, held a public hearing for a transit grant, and heard from community members on various issues.
To commence interpretation of the meeting. For those just joining the meeting, live interpretation in Spanish is available, and members of the public or staff with 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. If you are on your cell phone or tablet, locate the three dots, tap them lightly, and put a check mark on your preferred language. Click done to activate and begin the interpretation. Once you join the Spanish channel, we recommend you shut off the main audio so you can only hear the Spanish interpretation. Claudia, will you please restate this in Spanish? Yes. Councilmember O'Krupki? Here. Councilmember Ben Wells here. Vice Mayor Alvarez. Mayor Stepp. Here. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember Fleming. Thank you. We have three closed session items to announce. We have item 3.1, which is a public employee evaluation of performance, and then we have items 3.2 and 3.3, both of which, both of which are conferences with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. And with that, we will go to public comment. Thanks for your patience, everyone. The time is three o'clock, and we will uh reconvene from closed session. Madam City Clerk, would you please call the roll? Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. President Council Member O'Krepke? Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Ben Wellows. Vice Mayor Alvarez. President. Mayor Step. Here. Let the record show that all council members are present. Thank you. We're going to move on to item 4.1, our interviews for housing authority. We're going to interview applicants for the housing authority to fill one tenant commissioner at large position and one tenant commissioner senior position, each to have a two-year term expiring August 5th, 2027. And I'm glad to see that we have a number of the applicants here today. Is Doug here? Doug is not here. We will move on then. Angela Conti? Angela, wonderful. If you could make your way to one of the microphones in the front. We'll ask a few questions. Thank you very much for applying for for these uh for this position and for taking the time to be here today. Sure. We've all received a copy of your application, and we have a few questions we want to we want to throw your way. How do I see my your skills and experience assisting the residents? Of the that are affected that are affected by the housing authority.