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Councilmember McDonald.

Here.

Councilmember Fleming.

Your Councilmember Ben Welloth.

Here.

Councilmember Alvarez.

I'm present.

Vice Mayor Okrepki is absent.

And Mayor Stepp?

Here.

Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Council Members Rogers and Vice Mayor Okke.

Thank you very much.

We will move on to items 3.1 and 3.2.

Item 3.1 is a conference with a real property negotiator, and item 3.2 is conference with real property negotiator.

I believe we have some members of the public here who wish to make comment.

Welcome, welcome back to City Council gentlemen.

Would any of you wish to speak?

And if you are, make your way to uh either podium.

So Doug Dino Rich.

Who wants to be first?

All right.

Hello, distinguished uh council members and mayor stepp.

My name is Dino Dargencio, and I've been a commercial real estate agent and broker and continually active in leasing and development in Santa Rosa since 1979 and had an office at 538 Mendocino Avenue from 1979 to 1984.

My family and I have improved and developed properties within the downtown core since the mid-1995 period and currently own and manage the following properties downtown across from the uh garage number five, 643rd Street, uh since 1995 is currently occupied by the new Mechanics Bank that moved over from Railroad Square, law offices, and a Santa Rosa Fitness.

633rd Street, 8,000 feet since 1998, restaurant and offices, including formerly occupied by the city of Santa Rosa offices.

At 575 Ross Street, we have the newly redeveloped uh building that was a shop and a printing facility.

It's currently Cooperage Brewing Company Taproom.

My most recent acquisition is at 640 Fourth Street, that backs up to the northern the end of the garage number five is recently acquired actually from the partners of the Groupie group.

This building was originally designed by Larry Simons architect, very famous uh architect in the area, and in 1971, it was built for Empire Pharmacy.

This property includes a land area contiguous to and up to the northerly doorway of the parking garage.

Uh it backs up to our property, and the specific purpose of that doorway was the intent so that the Empire Pharmacy and its customers could be assured parking, loading, and immediate pedestrian access.

The same pedestrian corridor leads directly to the back doors of Max Delhi, Sawyers Jewelers, as well as the former Topaz Room building at 96 Courthouse Square and 50 Santa Rosa Avenue, like other stakeholders along this area adjacent to the garage.

Our building at 644th Street is directly adjacent to the garage and 250 Old Courthouse Square, owned by Airport Business Center, the parking requirement for a building at 50 Old Courthouse Square is approximately three parking per thousand based on the code required and the number of employees and and staff in the building, which requires at least 200 parking spaces for that building alone.

Garage number five, I believe, is 220 parking spaces.

Over the last 35 to 40 years, all properties in the downtown core have bought and paid for all the parking garage assessments through the property taxes that expired 10 years ago, but for 30 years prior to that, all the property owners in the downtown core, as far as we're concerned, we own those garages.

We paid for them.

So we do not want or need less parking and expect accountability from the city of Santa Rosa in this matter.

During the past 40 years of active commercial leasing and development.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dino.

I think that's the three minutes.

Thank you for coming tonight.

Doug, you're next.

So mayor, thank you very much.

Um, today I represent my family.

We own ER Sawyer Jewelers at 630 638 4th Street, the store next door at 632 4th Street, and the Sultani family that have Max Delhi.

We are Santa Rosa's oldest business and have been here for a hundred and almost 150 years.

The garage at some point in its life will need to be developed.

We need to make sure that we that you choose a developer that's going to have a vested interest in that development being completed.

There are too many buildings that are already surrounded with fences, buildings that have been knocked down.

Some of you weren't even around when the White House site was torn down, and yet we still haven't been able to get that one finished.

I think one of the things that we keep doing is chasing a shiny penny from out of town or whatever, a different place with a different story or a broad vision.

And I implore you on behalf of our family, our employees, to choose the local developer, airport business center, because they truly do have a vested interest in bringing this project to fruition in manners that can be had.

So downtown is struggling hard enough without having the uncertainty of somebody that is from out of the area that doesn't have that vested interest that we all do.