This was the second day of a two-day regular meeting study session (continued from May 5, 2026) focused on the proposed Fiscal Year 2026-27 Operations and Maintenance Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budget. No formal action was taken; the session was for information and discussion. Councilmember Eddie Alvarez was absent, and Vice Mayor Jeff Okrepkie participated remotely from Lahaina, Hawaii under traditional teleconferencing provisions of the Brown Act. The meeting was called to order at 9:02 a.m. and adjourned at 11:55 a.m.
Good morning. Francisco, will you please go ahead and commence interpretation of the meeting? For those just joining the meeting, live interpretation 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. 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 only hear the Spanish interpretation. Claudia, will you please restate this in Spanish? Claudia. Sorry about that. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you very much. Back to you. And we're back. It's nice to be spending so much time with everyone. Time is nine oh two, and we'll call this meeting in order. Madam City Clerk, would you please call the role? Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember Rogers. Councilmember McDonald. Here. Councilmember Fleming. Councilmember Ben Wellows. Here. Councilmember Alvarez. Vice Mayor Krepke. Here. Mayor Stapp. Here. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Council members Alvarez and Fleming. Perfect. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to uh item 3.1, our second half of our uh fiscal year budget review. Um Madam City Manager, any any words of introduction today, or are we just gonna jump right into it? We're gonna jump right in. All right, Scott and Megan, over to you. The great news is that we were able to cover so much ground today. Today should be a very efficient and productive day to run through the remainder of our departments. I'll give a brief overview of what we'll be covering today, but we'll start out with our housing authority where Director Bassinger will be giving parking and Bennett Valley Golf course, but our transit division is along with our Santa Rosa Water will run us through the city's internal service funds and then we're gonna shift gears into our larger enterprises here at the city. And then we'll end with a capital improvement program discussion led by Director Hennessy, and we'll end our conversation today really with the final part of our multi-phase multi-year strategy going forward with what year two impacts are looking like going forward. So with that, I will kick us right off into housing and communities or our housing authority with Director Basinger. Good morning, Mayor Stapp and members of council. I'm Megan Bassinger, Director of Housing and Community Services. So I'll be reviewing the housing authority component of the housing and community services budget. As you can see on the slide, it's broken into four main areas. The housing authority has about 20 separate funds that we use to administer programs. The first one is the mobile home rent stabilization fund. This is the fee that is collected for administration of our mobile home rent control program, staff charges to it, and we also use it for potential arbitrations that we may need to pursue. Second, we have our admin fund.