Building Equity in Government - January 26, 2022

Three Suggestions to Strengthen Our General Plan Update to Make It the Guide We Need to Create a Great City

 

Link to General Plan Article

Upcoming Santa Rosa City Council Meetings

Greetings!

Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens For Santa Rosa, alerted us that this week's Council meeting has been cancelled.

On January 28th, the Council has a study session at 2:30pm on Sonoma Clean Power's Evergreen and Clean Start programs.

The regular session contains a consent item increasing the contract for towing vehicles in the City, a report on the long-term finances of the City, the adoption of a rental housing inspection program, and considering expanding the Community Homeless Assistance Program which supports safe parking in more areas of the City.

Gregory

Building Neighborhood Power

Santa Rosa Together, Santa Rosa Housing For All, the Sonoma

Intersections Coalition and the City of Santa Rosa Present: Building

Neighborhood Power

Join neighbors as we begin defining the types of services, structures and

support we want in our neighborhood. With well-defined neighborhood

visions, we can better help policymakers and developers deliver the

neighborhoods of our dreams! 

We will be led by world-renown community

builder, Jim Diers, the former Dir. of the Seattle Department of

Neighborhoods and Professor at the University of Washington's Asset-

Based Community Development Institute.

Spanish translation & children activities provided!

You may register by clicking on this link.

Construyendo poder en el vecindario

Un taller dirigido por Jim Diers, el ex director. del Departamento de

Vecindarios de Seattle y profesor del Instituto de Desarrollo Comunitario de

Activos de la Universidad de Washington.

Únase y comenzamos a definir los tipos de servicios, estructuras y apoyo

que queremos en nuestro vecindario. Este taller trata sobre el desarrollo del

poder del vecindario - identificando y construyendo sobre nuestras

fortalezas. ¡Vamos a ver y hacer planes de acción para ayudar a los

responsables políticos y desarrolladores a cumplir los vecindarios de

nuestros sueños!

¡Traducción al español y actividades para niños!

S.R. City Council August 13th

Greetings!

Our friend, Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens for Santa Rosa, has again provided an excellent summary of this week's City Council agenda:

Friends:  At 3 PM there will be a Joint Study Session with the Planning Commission:

 4.1 General Plan Update Work Plan.  The City soon will be putting out an request for Proposals (RFP) for a consultant to help update the General Plan (GP).

  The last GP, 'Santa Rosa 2035' was adopted in 2009, and a lot has changed, including the need to address post-fire recovery, the challenge of Climate Change, Homelessness in Santa Rosa, the impact of cannabis business activity on industrial and commercial land and the annexation of Roseland.

4PM Council Meeting

9.1 Santa Rosa's City Attorney will report to the Council  on rewards in court cases as well as ongoing legal battles. a report the Council asked for on a quarterly basis.

 15.1 The Council will consider a proposal to amend the Santa Rosa Code, adding a Housing Anti-Discrimination Chapter.  This would prohibit rental housing discrimination against people using rental subsidies issued through governmental and non-profit agencies.

5PM Public Hearings

 16.1 Preferential Parking Permit Plan.  Parking on certain streets in the West End neighborhood has become constrained. Some business owners have asked the City to offer a Preferential  Permit Parking Program that would allow employees of eligible businesses to park on streets in designated areas beyond the posted parking limits.

 16.2  The Annual Santa Rosa Fire Department Weed Abatement Program Report. This is required the hear objections to the costs of requirements to abate weeds and rubbish.

To check out further details yourself, enter srcity.org in your web browser, then click Government, then City Council and then look for the date of the agenda in the long list of agendas.  For Mac users, press your Control key and select the  date 8/13/19 to be a new tab. In that tab you'll see the whole agenda.  Use the same procedure (for Mac users) to open up links within the agenda For others types of computers, I don't know your procedures.

See you there!

Anne

Homeless Action! Order for Preliminary Injunction

Greetings!

Here are Federal District Judge Vince Chhabria's:

Order Staying Litigation

Stipulation and Order for Preliminary Injunction

More Detailed Informational Press Release

S.R. City Council, April 30th

Greetings!

Thanks to our friend, Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens For Santa Rosa, for her analysis of the April 30th City Council agenda

Dear Friends:

  There is a 2:30 Study Session before the 4PM regular meeting.

4.1 Review  of City-Wide After-Action Report, regarding the City's actions during the October, 2017, fires.  There's an emphasis on 'Critical Recommendations.'

4PM

Under Mayor's and Council members' Reports:

11.2.1 Action to take a position on the recently-released CASA Compact on Housing.  A letter is to be sent to our local legislators from the Mayor's and Council members' Association (in which each city has representatives) reporting a unanimous vote against the Compact.  This is due to the Compact's one-size-fits-all approach to planning housing for cities of different sizes.  A suggestion is made that with modifications, the plan would be helpful to on-going efforts in each city.

11.3.1 A Request from Council member Combs for a Study Session on a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage.  Seconded by Council member Tibbetts.

Report

  15.2 Approval of a Subregional Wastewater Treatment Plant  Budget.  This Budget covers Operations and Maintenance, Capital Improvements, Debt Service and Associated Costs. The plant treat 21.34 MGD (million gallons per day in average dry weather) of what we don't like to call wastewater - but what's a better term?  In the recent heavy rains and floods, the plant had to release treated wastewater to the Laguna, as it was overwhelmed.

The System has five users: Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Cotati, Sebastopol, and the Sonoma County South Park Sanitation District

  After the budget is approved, allocations of costs to each participant will be determined. Then each participant will allocate costs among sewer users (us).

See you there!

Anne