S.R. City Council Agenda, Oct 11th

Greetings!

Our thanks to our friend, Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens For Santa Rosa, for her analysis of this Tuesday's City Council agenda:

Friends:    There is no Study Session before this 4PM meeting.

I begin with Report items, because there are many important ones.

14.1 Referendum - Petition Challenging Ordinance #4072, the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. This is an update from staff on how this challenge will (or will not) proceed.

You've likely read of the petition drive funded by The California Apartment Association challenging the ordinance.  Many signatures were obtained using mixed-up language that lead signers to think that they were signing to support Rent Stabilization. See below for more info;

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4715906&GUID=6099D250-9690-4CD3-8ED7-EE50B61B2671 Ordinance Challenge

14.2 Expanded Year-Round Community Homeless Assistance Program (CHAP).  It is recommended by the Housing and Community Services Department that the Council issue regulations to allow for immediate implementation of the Year-Round CHAP.  See more below:

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4712399&GUID=3D479C8D-07BE-4BC8-A756-6F9142B6C5C4 CHAP

14.3 Plan Bay Area Draft Preferred Scenario.  It is recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the Council provide direction for comments to be sent to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) regarding the draft scenario and to authorize the mayor to sign a letter submitting those comments.

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4712428&GUID=C1FEA4A4-70D7-4F8C-B889-8F7040C2AB00 Plan Bay Area

14.4 One Bay Area Grant 2 (OBAG2) (Everything has its acronym!)

    The Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) will release a call for for projects in November. This is a request from the City of Santa Rosa that the Council will discuss.

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4714937&GUID=5DF741F6-39C9-4A8C-9907-8D46AF6B4EB2 OBAG2

14.5 Measure Y -Should the Council Endorse Measure Y, the Sonoma County Library 1/8 percent sales tax to restore and enhance Library Services?

14.6 Proposition 52 - The Council will discuss whether to endorse Prop 52.  This is about protecting the funding that the state collects from hospitals that is required of hospitals to allow them to receive Medi-Cal payments.

15 Public Hearings

  15.1 Short-Range Transit Plan for Possible Adoption. It is recommended by the Transit and Public Works Department that the Council adopt the Fiscal Year 2016-2025 Short Range Transit Plan.

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4711975&GUID=6F57577E-D650-496A-8F2C-E23C562791CE Transit Plan

29.  Upcoming Meetings

https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4712471&GUID=D238CF5F-3CAB-4A88-8141-9BB9BA17537E Upcoming Meetings

See you there!

Anne