City of Davis / UC Davis / Yolo County Annual Public Meeting

good evening folks. My name is Will Arnold. The mayor it is my pleasure to open this meeting a joint meeting between the city of Davis uc Davis and Yolo County. This is a special me. Eating of the Davis City Council. That's why you're here in MAY 1st. Today is Monday DECEMBER 4th, and I see that I'm joined by all who are expected. That would be from uc Davis Chancellor Gary Mets and Claire Shannara Chanel I think I got a close enough nod. She's Vice Chancellor of Finance operations and administration's for uc Davis also joined here by our County. Representatives who represent Davis that would be supervisor Jim provenza and supervisor Lucas frerichs and I'm joined by the members of the city council my vice mayor Josh Chapman councilmember, Gloria partita councilmember, Donna Neville and councilmember bapu b Le we are live on channel 16 as well as online at the normal place to stream. I did the roll call. We have an agenda at this time. i will ask the body for a motion to approve said agenda. It was moved by supervisor provenza. Is there a second I'll second seconded by councilmember Nevel any discussion all in favor, please say aye opposed. Okay, we have an agenda. So at this time I will give a very brief Welcome to our guests who are joining us tonight and to all of you here in the audience. It is really nice to see you. I really appreciate that these meetings exist and it really is my honor as the mayor to convene this joint meeting between the city the county and our partners at uc Davis are coming together tonight. Teams from a Visionary agreement that the three these three bodies joined into in 2018. This was a memorandum of understanding that brought our entities together in a commitment to collaborate on our shared progress since then our Collective effort has been focused on working in tandem recognizing that our shared communities challenges are interconnected and and mm unified on all our parts together. We've tackled critical issues that directly impact our residents such as housing accessibility Transportation enhancements, and of course Public Health our collaboration. These fronts has been pivotal in shaping a better future for or community and our region one piece of evidence of our collaborations impact is most tangible in my opinion. This is reflected in the remarkable outcomes through the healthy yolo together initiatives as we all know our work together was pivotal in our community's response to the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic and it showcases the incredible power of collaborative effort between the city county and uc Davis and the power of Partnerships and addressing complex issues by aligning our efforts. We maximize our impact. Today's agenda underscores our commitment to further progress will have the privilege of hearing and perspective from Chancellor MAY and others who whose contributions and Visions are instrumental in shaping not just in the case of uc Davis the academic landscape in our community, but also the broader footprint of our region and as we move forward, it is my hope that we will build upon the successes. We've achieved together by harnessing our Collective expertise resources. Has and passion to continue addressing challenges and seizing opportunities that lie with that. It is my pleasure to invite Chancellor Chancellor Mary to share his thoughts and contributions toward our shared goals. Thank you. All right. I'll see the last sentence. Tat was a big one earlier this year uc Davis tied for the number-6 spot among te best public universities in the nation. & And that's according to U.S. News World report's 2024 best college rankings, and it's a significant increase over last year's ranking of number ten. We continue to write number one of the nation and number two in the world in both veterinary medicine and agriculture. According to Qs World university rankings spot for campus sustainability in the U.S. In the ui green metric World University rankings, and we've been in the top 10 globally in that ranking for 10 years running. We're also ranked number one of the country for diversity inclusiveness and it's and internationalisation according to us these rankings reflect the progress. We're making to improve our visibility excellence and impact and as a result. We have no shortage of student applications more than a hundred nine thousand freshmen and transfer students applied for this current Academic Year. Overall the total fall a all locations which includes undergraduates graduates professional students interns and residents is just over 40,000 students. We also track student population averaged over the three quarters of an academic year for implementing the 2018 long range development plan capacity of thirty nine thousand students at the Davis Campus in keeping with the last few years. The lrd, p three-quarter average is estimated to be just under thirty seven thousand for 20 23 24. This year we offer freshman and transfer admissions to 10% more applicants and California residents for fall 2023 compared to last year. We aso admitted more applicants from historically underrepresented groups among California freshman and transfer admissions African-Americans represented four percent American Indians 1% Chicanos Latin next 29% and Pacific Islanders less than 1% those from low-income families increase from 42 to 43 percent. As a public university, we have a duty to serve and reflect the diversity of our state and uc Davis is providing upward social Mobility for our graduates one final highlight for the second year in a row and you'll research Awards reached 1 billion dollars. This is a claim that few public universities can claim these Awards address a wide range of needs including the health of all living beings water issues and food production. They not only Advance uc Davis initiatives, but they shape a better tomorrow for Californians the nation in the world by addressing. Some of today's most chap most significant challenges. I couldn't be more about uc Davis and our future we've made significant improvements to housing classrooms and infrastructure together with our partners here in the city and the county we improve roads and bike paths. We collaborated on student transportation in the form of e bikes and scooters and we work together to make our communities healthier and stronger. We also work together to address other challenges. I'm looking forward to this evenings update on hate free together. This is another area where our partnership can have a positive impact. We've seen our sare o speech and hate incidents. I expect we'll continue to see protest and Free Speech related to controversies, especially with the events happening in Israel and Gaza with and with the presidential election cycle on the horizon on that note. I like to tank David City Council Yolo County Board of Supervisors and all of our business and Community Partners. I'm pleased to continue our partnership with the city and county on efforts that benefit our broader communities uc Avis is driven to be a good neighbor and collaborate on issues of mutual importance together. We're making progress seen what we can accomplish when we apply or Collective resources for the greater good and I look forward to our continued work together. Thank you Chancellor MAY this time I'd like to invite our supervisors to make a welcome decide who goes first. Oh, thanks, mayor, Arnold and good evening. Everyone good to see you all and it's great to be back up here in this Dyess. So a little less than a year ago. On the city council and really so appreciate that. This has been a this joint sort of town and gown City County and University meeting as a result of the 2018 mou that a number of us participated in negotiating. We have seen that to really bear fruit in numerous ways over the course of the last five or so years really appreciate the advancements that have been made in Italy housing, but also so many other ways Transportation projects planning together and many other things that we've been working on especially hate free together that we're obviously we'll hear more about tonight. I am so appreciative of that. This process has led to a much more workable and immutable real relationship between the university the city and the county We are in a time when none of us can do any of this work without the other. I think that's really the case. And so the greater collaboration has been really essential and accomplishing a bunch of the items that we all have seek as have this sared goals. I'll just highlight one quick item. I think it's actually two things one. I just want to specifically acknowledge the county ca o Gerardo Pinedo with us this evening last year's meeting was his first time attending this Thing as well too. So a little bit more than a year. You're almost a year later really glad to have him and settling in as the cio for the county and under his leadership and his team that he is assembled with him many of folks who you'll hear from this evening and just one specific item that obviously we're here at number tonight that I know it's not on our agenda tonight, but I want to just raise think it's an example of the collaboration between the county and the university in particular is the issues around food and security and issues of student hunger we know that there are about 1500 monthly users of the Aggie asucd Aggie Pantry on cmpus and that is a pretty amazing facility and asset to the campus itself. Mostly the students and asucd but also the issues around there are approximately somewhere the range is between 3 and up to 4,000 any one time uc Davis students. Who? Are utilizing CalFresh benefits and the ability years ago my predecessor supervisor sailor and supervisor were Venza. We're able to get a Department of Health and Human Services Agency staffer to be able to work closely and be on campus and bedded on the campus to actually help those students. Who are insecure actually we meet and recognize that the ability to actually access their benefits. So there are a lot that needs are really quite real continuing and growing and so I think it's really important to just as one example of the items where we've already done so much together, but yet there's still a lot of where areas for we can all be working to sort of increase the collaboration between the campus and the city ad the county so appreciate the opportunity to make a few who few more. You, Lucas and I join in thanking everyone the chance to Mayor city council for tis opportunity to convene together, which we do once a year. The topics are pretty weighty and they're not they're not topics that will be resolved in one year housing. We have made significant progress, but we continue to need to make more progress and it continues to be a problem that plagues Us in the this community and in came General mental health is increasingly before us in s many ways both of the national state and local level and addressing that together is just so important and we'll hear more about that this evening and then I could never have imagined when I graduated from uc Davis in 180 that we would be talking about hate and hate crimes in 2023, but The Arc of Justice goes up and down although we continue to make progress It's remarkable the things that still happen in the challenges we face and coming together on that issue I think is just so meaningful because if we don't address it together and make it a priority it only gets worse, but I think we can we can make significant progress there as well. And the last thing I wanted to mention is that we work together throughout the a year we convene once a year, but it's the work that goes on behind the scenes staff The Chancellor's office will city council and Board of Supervisors throughout te year that really makes a difference and I think on each of the in each of these areas we will make significant progress because we committed it to work together and have this opportunity to convene this as one body appreciate that and I also always want to be on the Davis City Council of this sort of gives you a chance. Never had that opportunity MAY come. You to our supervisors and and thank you all so at this time, we'll move on to our second item of the agenda. This is public comments an opportunity for members of the public to discuss items relevant to This meeting and this body. I will note that we will have a hard stop at 6:40, which is not all that long from now and if there are any additional public commenters that wish to speak we will have the rest of the public occur after we've taken up all the items at this meet. It looks like folks have it pretty well in but if you have not attended a daiva city council meeting our protocol but folks lining up you can see installation happening live and so so with that I will welcome our first public commenter. Welcome. Thank you. Can you hear me? All right. My name is Stanford McConaughey. I'm a resident of Davis and a third year law student at uc Davis School of Law. I speak on my own behalf. To register three concerns. I have about a pre together campaign first since its Inception in NOVEMBER 20 22 there have been very few written updates that are publicly accessible without signing on to a newsletter. This is not an acceptable method of informing the public and I'd like to see a central web-based repository of all public facing notifications that have been released to date and going forward second. I'm concerns that this programming will be used to supplement the climate of plitical repression that is animating municipalities and college campuses across the country compression relies on an effective weapon ization of the concepts of hate extremism and rhetoric to silence minimalize and marginalized protected political speech especially around the issue of occupied Palestine while we should be absolutely attentive to incidents of identity-based hate. We need to apply definitions that are not over inclusive of any protected political speech speech on matters of public concern, especially where language is heavily contested and police for political purposes in this resolution and the resolution that are not graded this project you wrote that quote. We affirm the Exchange of ideas that will not tolerate the use of hate speech including online targeting harassment and quote as this project commences these Concepts remain undefined and unacceptably vague. Finally. I would ask the city of Davis and Yolo County cease all Partnerships with Chancellor met on this project or any other non-essential projects until he resigns from hs board position a flight has company a military industrial firm facilitating Israel's occupation of Palestine, including through the use of airport security infrastructure. More mongering to avoid accountability for his contributions to feelings and actual experiences of unsafety for people in this community and all over the world. He has no credibility to be speaking or working on this issue in our names. We do not want war profiteers running out of look institutions or making policy in our names and in conjunction with our local city government. Thank you. Thank you to the public commenter welcome. Good evening. My name is serve as the Exon vice PRESIDENT For the graduate student Association at uc Davis at the gsa. We are heartened to see the collaboration between the city county and the universe you continue many of us live in Davis in around Eva's. Not only because we attend uc Davis but also because you're happy to quantities in Yolo County our home So we are eager to see further work on housing mental health and the head together tree campaign at the gsa housing and transportation issues that we are concerned with and we're hoping to see them tackle in tandem. We still need affordable housing for graduate students that's accessible to all students clothes to Hubs of public transportation grocery stores childcare facilities parking options and costs continue to b a concern for graduate students as well. A lot of us are commuters. Sometimes it's not possible to turn it to transition from gas-powered vehicles in a matter of years, especially those of us who come here from different parts of the county so affordable regular and accessible Transportation, Maybe emphasize or into my school graduate students through some deposits would be something from a pinto. Finally. We are appreciative of the he threw together campaign. I know this has been putting a lot of work into it and I thank them for it. I realize that Lido's here have been having conversations considering different courses of actions to address the recent international events in our community. I firmly believe that we need to uphold freedom of speech academic freedom, but you also need to support and show solidarity with our vulnerable community members some of whom have reached out to us looking for leadership and Direction were suffering from negative effects of hateful speech motivated and symmetric and anti Islamic Center. Thank you. Come on, you can talk. To the next public commenter. Hi, my name is Beth born. I'm a mother Bennett PRESIDENT Davis for 25 years. I've had held five public forums at the yellow Branch Library here at Davis. Most of them were interrupted by the trans activists in this town at our last event to protect girls sports that you love County library and Scott Love Actually a violated our freedom of speech and shut down our event a lawsuit pending. I really wanted to to talk about why this hate speech for you to find what hate speeches when there's a lot of freedom of speech that needs to happen in this city and this County as you know, there's books that are available at our Yolo County Library that actually encourage kids to research p*** to learn about pink acts and they tell kids that they can take cross-sex hormones and they can change their sexual traits to change their bodies into a different sex. I don't believe that's possible. I'm Well, tired of seeing girls at our high school here Davis having mastectomies because they're being told that having Top surgery will give them the sense of affirming their trans male identity. You cannot change your sex with hormones or surgeries and it's wrong to tell children that Riley gain spoke last month at uc Davis and she was incredible and I just wish that Chancellor MAY I know he loud that the college Republicans to hold the event, but you could to speak up for their rights to have fair and safe Sports to have safe spaces because being a woman is not something you identify as just like you are a black or you are spanic or you are Asian or you are this race gender scial constructs, you can't identify into something because you can identify into being a woman and being in women's sports. Then why can't I identify and affirmative action and get scholarships? You can't do this your body is who you are. Thank you. Thank you Beth. Welcome to the next public commenter. Hi, m name is Dora Jensen. I live in Davis since 1969 pretty much. So I wanted to talk especially to Chancellor Gary make because he was part of a group that was interviewed by the editorial board at the Cal Aggie or the Egg a.Org. So it was a long long transcript of the Review and was published on. Let's see the NOVEMBER 28th online on the Aggie dot-org. It's called the editorial board meets with Chancellor Gary Mets, uc Davis administrators, So I thought it was very nice, you kow, very very extensive time for some of the editorial board members to ask questions and for him and others to answer the question that I wanted to bring up with concern about his part of his answer was early on in the present in the and early on in the transcript online. So the question was as follows you sit on the board of leidos that company that among other things works with the Israeli Ministry of Defence what initially went into the decision to be part of this board and has the recent violence in the region or student Gatherings related to the Israel Palestine Palestine conflict affected you how you feel about supporting why those so he answered with how he got involved and then he did mention that he check to be sure that it wasn't. Aunt the not involved in the conflict there and then he said these same types of questions or whatever or whatever that me and leidos when the Trump Administration was Cajun kids at the border if you remember that and I did the same thing then as I'm doing now I ask the company for some assurance that the company was not involved in activities that I Personally viewed as unacceptable and they were not involved at all. I don't know. I thought it kind of a cheap shot to throughout the trend Administration situation. The situation is out of control at the border and there are 85,000 children now as a result of Crossing illegally, so they would have been safer in cages. Thank you so much. Thank you Dorothy. Welcome to the next public commenter it evening Greg Rowe with follow-up comments to the memo that sent to all of you yesterday on gender. Item 6a the primer on housing project that you MAY have heard of is going to be built soon Next to You cd. It's going to have fifty two buildings 700 units in two thousand two hundred beds the plan that the developer is offered for that poject says that he MAY choose to lease the 330 affordable beds to uc Davis, which he then expects uc Davis returned around and sublet to the low-income students. These would be for very low and During your low income students. The question is is whether that Arrangement would fall under the definition of a master lease, which is defined in the 2018 and while you between the city and the county and you see d in which at that time promised they would stop doing next releases. This is also pertinent because the dveloper the Promenade has a long-standing relationship with uc Davis, especially with regard to master releases in the past The other pertinent thing about this project is off-campus properties that uc Davis owns don't pay property taxes. So it's important to ask whether you see you cd also has plans to buy remastered release any of those 52 residential buildings. That's going to go next door and whether it plans to buy or lease commercial or residential buildings anywhere else in Davis this ownership that ucd is had of off campus property has been a long-standing problem as identified in a 1989 mou between in the city and uc Davis at which time the city of Davis was losing 80 thousand dollars ayear in property taxes because if you CDs ownership of off campus property that then will you said that uc Davis and the city would come up with an how to solve that problem within two years that hasn't happened and the problem continues because was in 2016 uc Davis offered to buy the interval and Office Park the 66 million dollars fortunately for the city and county Mark for human body for 70 million. So it remained in private hands in the city and the county continue to get property. Take your grade your timezone. Thank you. Hear Yolo County and you think David's of the city of Davis are going to do hate read together? Well, you know healthy Davis together, at least it was healthy a wise man once told me never pray not to have sckness because you're still praying for the sickness, but you have eight free has Hayden it at least cool Davis much as I don't believe that cities should Taking on global problems least they got it, right cool Davis so, you kow governments cannot change Hearts. They can only step aside and not be part of the problem. Heater is won't change due to a government program. I don't care if they're trumpster is conservatives liberals progressives really we say that we welcome all but try being a conservative in the town of Davis. Not that I'm a conservative, but I ain't no liberal either. Freedom of beliefs speech and thought are as important as diversity doesn't believe in karma. Ellen. Welcome to our next public commenter. A former planning commissioner and I've followed land use issues for over 30 years including the lrd p process recently actually previous one as well. I'm here in regard to urging ucd to build far higher density housing on campus than it has been building. I wrote a letter about this give you images all these other that are doing this, but you see b is not you see Edie has been building basically four stories in general or net Sports stories and meanwhile for instance at The Orchard Park project. It was a missed opportunity at a terribly missed opportunity to build higher density housing of like seven stories because immediately across the street from that a private developer built a seven-story project so you could have housed twice as many students and the reason why the ucs are doing this the only way to control housing on campus po costs long Room is to build it on campus. So as opposed to like the market, you know, yu can't control the cost of housing off campus basically, so the university is free land. It doesn't pay property taxes, and it doesn't have to pay the city's fees. So there's no reason why they can't go taller. So please on the Solano Park, let's not MISS This opportunity. This is the golden for for the University of get it, right uc Irvine. Fine did six stories with the Mesa Towers. You see a San Diego. Did The Sxteen to twenty three acre as story of project of sixth hour of six buildings ucd needs to kept to step up and do what the other you see these are doing and do this for your students as well because this is the only way to control the how the costs long term. So you see d is the only University not doing 50% on-campus housing. It is see with other over 250 300 acres in a 900 Acres Kirk or campus? So please let's not MISS This opportunity. This is a little punk. Do I link Welcome to our next public commenter? Good evening. I'm here tonight to talk about the stakes involved in hate feet together. I am director of yellow rainbow families and in my role. I have been relentlessly in public social media posts in which the computers have described as a Gruber and have accused me of harming children as if I hadn't been vetted for my role and had experienced. I am being portrayed. A as somehow telling in the capacity of telling kids who have already identified as lgbtq+ that resources exist in our community and that we have Davis pride is somehow recruiting children into the community that in the course of one lunch period I have somehow converted them to being lgbtq+. I'm not alone in this we have had teachers who have been targeted. We have had members of our school board who likewise in targeted the Paradox of Tolerance. Is that what do we do when people say that their tolerance allow that our talent should allow them to be intolerant. Religion for example as an excuse for their bigotry wile ignoring the fact that there are many houses worship and leaders of those houses. And members of the clergy themselves who are in fact lgbtq. Plus they are being disingenuous. When people try to say oh you should be tolerant of my intolerance. They have rejected the social contract that tolerate the circle of Tolerance extends. They have rejected that opportunity to have that extended to themselves when people tell lies about marginalized communities and say that certain people should not exist then they have rejected that social contract and they are harming our people. Thank you inertia times up. Hello, my name is Daniel Mojica. And I am the external phase commission chair person under asucd at the University. I open a lot of doing well with recent events and instances and of crying and hateful rhetoric that we have witnessed within the city of Davis. We're scared, you know, students were scared. I'm sure adults are relatively concerned and scared as well, But I am here to represent my fellow students. We come into the city expecting Safety and Security and it just seems that lately. We haven't been really given that opportunity to feel safe with that. We have an upcoming national election. Yes, want to ask that the city the county and the university do everything in your power to not only inform voters, but protect them we are concerned about our safety again on a number of levels from lighting feedom of expression housing, you know, and we have the right to feel safe. We have the right to remain safe when voting and we of course have that General right to vote Yes that right to vote includes having accessible voting locations, and we ask that the campus looked Implement multiple accessible locations on off campus, of course off campus also includes the city. So I hope you two would work in partisan if I issue as well and we ask that the county doing and whatever power you can to help support these efforts to really protect voters and our right to vote. Thank you. Thank you, Daniel. Wlcome to our next public commenter. Hello. My name is Tristan Meyer, and I am also with the external Affairs Commission of uc Davis. I'm here today to talk about the in the city of Davis. Thank you for hearing public thoughts and such an important meeting in such a crucial time for uc Davis students. I'm not going to take up a lot of your time tonight because I think we can all agree. That lighting is a problem in Davis as a whole. I recently had the opportunity to walk around. With uc Davis lighting experts and I became aware about how complex Citywide Lighting systems really are, but I have to ask. Please do more to protect citizens and students within Davis the lighting in our city is looking consider the in our city is looking consider is lacking considering how we are pedestrian focused Community. I ask that you increase the lighting standards and abide by them. I know that it's probably not an urgent issue for you, but it's an urgent issue for us students students whose only option is to waik but walk or ride our bikes to campus. I hope you consider this and make this issue a priority to reflect the values of our community. Thank you. Kristen. Welcome. My name is adore Briscoe Scofield and I'm currently asecond year at uc Davis and I'm here to speak with you about the issue of voter registration and Davis. I was able to read register to vote last year as a resident of the dorms to vote and Davis. I was previously registered to vote somewhere else in California, but my roommate who was formerly a resident of Chicago and moved here to go to school was not able to vote in last year's election because his ballot from Chicago did not get here on time. Have er recently turned 18 and can average start to vote or have relocated here from other parts of California or other parts of the country and need to re register to vote and Davis. I saw no efforts while there MAY have been efforts on campus to encourage voter registration personally as a first year living in the dorms. I didn't see any efforts to encourage voter registration or a change of address and voting at Davis efforts like these could help first year to have recently moved or transfer students who have recently moved They can vote on Davis issues. They can vote on California issues and they can vote of course on federal issues upcoming. Next year is the 2024 election, which of course it's a fderal election the voting on a many different kinds of issues and I'm sure that many students and Davis will not be able to vote in that election because they slip their mind or we never really knew how to re-register are registered to vote and the historically younger demographics have had rather low voter turnout so efforts from our school our city government can help to register boats. and Davis so that they can vote in this upcoming very integral important election coming up next year. I work with the external Affairs commission as well and I will be working to push projects to register students to vote on campus and I hope that other members of our Campus Community and our city council and city government will do the same. Thank you. as a door. We have time for one more public comment prior to our cosing of public comment at 6:40. Again. We will be taking a public comment for the remainder of folks after we regular business of this meeting. Welcome. Hello. My name is Maya Lopez. I'm a first year student at uc Davis and I'm also part of the external Affairs commission uder asucd and I want to emphasize that we believe that the city needs to do more to protect its residents from threats of violence. Against six bomb threats towards Davis Public Libraries and Local Elementary and high schools resulting in evacuation shelter in place orders and delaying delaying schools. These threats included of anti lgbtq rhetoric to justify violence. I would hope that you uphold your goals as city council and acknowledge that every human being deserves to be safe and loved threats to tans rights are a threat to Human Rights. We would like to emphasize the importance of kindness inclusion and compassion in Paving the way for lgbtq rights, no reticle every ever truly justify violence and hatred and every human being deserves to be safe and loved it's just it just that simple. So, thank you. Thank you to our public commenters. Once again, we will public comment following the regular items of this meeting. So with that I will move on to our first regular item. This is a housing update. I have your name Chancellor met up here first. So my cue thank you MR. Myor. I'm only going to introduce our speaker who is my chi and Associate Vice Chancellor of housing dining and digital operations and our division of student affairs to give our campus housing update Mike. Sir. Adding on to that Thank you very much Chancellor. MAY I will also introduce Sherry metzker our director of Community Development for the city of Davis and MR. Sheean will kick off the presentation followed by this metzker and then we will turn to the to the group for questions. Thank you. Al right. Thank you. Good to be here. Thanks for the opportunity to come and give an update on where we're at with student housing at uc Davis as Chancellor made said my name is Mike Shannon. I serve as the avc for dining and additional operations with that. We are unified department. So w have both housing and dining services within our unit and we are all part of the dvision of student affairs. It is a is a opportunity because we're so combined as a group to really have a strong impact on the services that we povide that's not the norm at all campuses. So it's something that we like to highlight. With that we the number of support students services to our students and to help them transition to uc Davis and help them with their success academically at uc Davis quick overview of all the properties that we do have on campus. The blue properties are our traditional residence Halls courtis. You can do trasero areas and our yellow properties. There are apartment properties. I have highlighted the Solano Park neighborhood, but I'll give more information on this that property is officially closed now and it is fenced off. So that's why I wanted to keep it on there to highlight with our Housing Services. We are at a point now where we have over 1500 beds that we can provide to our students both undergraduate graduate and returning students. We also have been growing our dining program at the same time. We need to provide both Dining Services as well as Housing Services. And again, that's part of the Synergy of us being one with our dining. Housing properties. We're working closely with campus Aggie Compass to do everything we can to help support food and housing and security efforts some of those I highlight on this on this slide. There's a lot of other items as well we could With the students that were serving. We do not have housing requirements. So our students do choose to live with us our first year students traditionally. We were first year freshman We started to adjust that a few years back to increase our commitments to our incoming tansfer students and our returning students are take rates that we have listed there have been going up currently about 93% of the first year who choose to live with us in our transfer. Students who are housed out at the green at West Village. We're at about 45% now and the returning students. Those are all students who are currently living with this. So any first-year freshman living in the residence halls or at the green if they want to live with us a second year or continue on through graduation. We have tat committed to them to offer them opportunities Our graduate student and student will families that part of our inventory is also been growing over the years. We the first step we took took with that was 8 in a week a few years back before single gaduate students That's been a very successful property the next we did during post covid. We That property is now serving graduate students and students with families and it's been very successful and then most notably this fall. We opened up the new Orchard Park against Irving single graduate students as well as students with families. All of our efforts are in alignment with our commitment to provide housing to our that is in sync with our enrollment growth and is hitting 100 percent of that enrollment growth. Numbers are tracking well above and beyond those commitments. So we're really proud of that effort. The total enrollment growth has listed in the 2018 our dp is that 50? 175 number the actual growth we've been seeing is the 28:57. With the projects that we've been bringing online of the last few years. We are hitting more than double what that actual growth has been. So we're meeting that commitment. We're currently at about 6:00 a over six thousand beds that have been brought on line one point. I do want to note here how we count beds can get confusing. I just want to acknowledge that for instance the Assembly Hall and shouts a halt. We intentionally backed out the bed counts that were in the original buildings. We didn't want to overcome a number. So we're doing our best to be fair and open with those with those numbers. As you can see with the how we're tracking wth mou our last not our last but our most significant Target was this fall and we have hit our 15,000 Target with the Orchard Park coming online. So we're really proud of those efforts and where we're at with our availability on campus some highlights for future projects. We are even though it's not here in Davis. We are working. Aggie squared bring on beds out in Sacramento beds of working with that developer. We have kicked off our Segundo infill project, which will be another traditional residence hall on campus and the Segundo area that project is important because it will then set us up for redevelopment of the Reagan neighborhood and both those opportunities. These are not opportunity for increased density within that neighborhood. So, you know info we do have three teams competing right now. So we're moving forward aggressively with three contractor and design build teams we are going to be engaging with in JANUARY. Our goal is to have that opened up for occupancy for followed 2827 the West Village undergraduate Apartments. We've done on campus discussion about that location and building. Building more Apartments out at West Village that timeline is still being developed Reagan the Redevelopment as I mentioned will be forthcoming after te skin do until completion and again as an opportunity for significant increase in on that site Solano Park as I mentioned Slano Park is fenced off. It's fully vacant right now. There are currently no plans for redevelopment of Solano. We have other locations that we're going to be redeveloping first. However, we are moving forward with demolition. Site, and if you all recall there is an easement that the university has provided for an overpass over the railroad tracks to allow for the Promenade project. We also in engaging actively with the native tribes on that is sensitive land out there particularly in the north part of that neighborhood. What's an appropriate use for that space What I'm trying other housing locations are in the the long range development plan. But right now these are the locations that work that we're focused on. Have but will table that. You Vice Chancellor Sheehan now, we'll hear from She had now we'll hear from our director of Community Development Sherry, Mexico. Thank you, Michael. We to at city of Davis have been very busy since 2018 the approval and construction and planning for housing in the city of Davis. We are working continuously to provide for affordable and market rate housing and it is always a continuing gone ongoing effort as evidenced by our efforts. Us with our housing element and all the projects that we have proved in that time frame. So tonight. I'm just going to give you a little brief overview Okay, here's an example of a few projects that have been completed since the timeframe of the mou first is the writer on Olive project. It is located at 11:33 Olive Drive was built in 2021 and is primarily geared towards students. It provides 103 30 units and 708 individual beds and has various affordable Leasing. As well. The middle project is a similar project called identity Davis. It is located on Oxford Circle was also built in 2021. It provides 71 units o 440 beds. This site also has flexible rent then help students pay for their rent in installments throughout the month as opposed to individual payments. The last is our newest project to come online. It's called the Celeste. It's out on child's It was completed just this year and is geared towards professionals and Workforce housing. It has 225 units or 361 beds included between these three projects. There are four hundred and twenty six units that have been constructed. Some examples of some of the projects that we still have in the queue well and or are being under constructed are under construction one is Poject. We know is 2555. It is located on Research Park Drive near cow on this triangular shaped sort of piece of property. There are 200 units. It is currently under cnstruction. And again, it is designed primarily for professionals and Workforce housing. The other project which is on the right is Research Park mixed use project. It is a vertical mixed use project wherein there are non-residential uses on the first and 160 apartment units located up above it. It is to designed for professional and Workforce housing. There are projects also that I do not have pictured here that we also have including the Marco I believe that's the right name. That's out at The Cannery on Cannery Loop, which also includes an additional 72 units project is very near to completion and should be getting its occupancy in the next couple of months. Overall, these are our statistical numbers the table on the left shows the number of units that are currently in the works, but don't require approval bite of a I'm sorry looking at the wrong notes what w have here are projects that we have completed projects under construction pending and pending by pending instruction. That means they have all their proper entitlements and by pending approval. That means they're still in the entitlement phase meaning they still need approval from either Planning Commission or city council between all of those units of those completed and those nearly completed we have 1057 units approved since 2019 if you add in the pending instruction and pending approval units we have units. Is is up almost 1,000 units just since last year. Just since last year on the right hand side. You'll see the numbers of the projects that we have and what we like to call our peripheral growth project areas. These are located in areas that require approval by. The voters prior to approval of the actual approval of the project and as you can see between those there are over 3,000 units that we have currently in the process. Last little bit of information. I wanted to share with you. All since it is a student oriented housing that we are traditionally talking about here I we were to assume about three people per unit here. We have a provided just over ten thousand beds in amongst these entitlements. So we are making significant progress in providing additional housing and Davis as well. Turn to You to answer any questions from that presentation. So are there members of this body that wish to ask a question? So of Staff go ahead that's yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks for your presentation. Really appreciate that a question for Mike on the numbers o new housing DR. P agreement that does I know you said you backed out some numbers on that were close. Is that across the board that anything that's shutdown is subtracted from the number of new. That's so that we get an accurate read. Yes. That's correct. The one exception to that is Orchard Park since we demolished Orchard Park and many many years before the Rdevelopment in the site State and empty for a lot of years. We did not do that for auction. Okay. Thank you. And in other contexts Orchard, but what is 200 beds? Excuse me, 200 two-bedroom units. Just in case you that. When was that? I can't recall when that by Josh. I think I can remember the year. We lost quite some time ago. Yeah, and then in your numbers, Iknow that for example medical students go to Sacramento so you wouldn't include them if you do you include the veterinary students who in your numbers of students on campus. In terms of these. Yeah every year we work with work with involvement services to determine what is the Dvis based on enrollment certainly any students that are taking class in Dave's would be part of that date of the state of single. Thank you. And then I have I guess this question promote acidity and the university because we had a email and also comments on Solano Park development is there and I know that the city's housing element. And ask for seven stories in terms of University Housing it has there been discussion about if it more fication going higher some of those units or some of those projects. Well, just to be clear Solano Park is not currently up for a Redevelopment at this time. So with regard to the question of height for buildings, and our first priority is always cost. We want to make sure we're providing housing at the best cost. We possibly can I the past for story has hit that Mark the most most efficiently However every project work with our design team or contractors our campus professionals to determine what is the appropriate density for the site that we're looking at that also can mean what type of building are we going to build with some construction type? What's the footprint and then ultimately what's the height of that building? And then what is the plan for replacing Solano Park? However, there's no so right now Solano. It's been we've been taking Solano offline a supposed of last few years, so Orchard Park and primero grow really weak those coming back oline Orchard with the increased density Premier group with rebranding of for families and grad students has taken that place of Solano and then the future projects at West Village seeking to win Phil Regan Lee development will all be adding to our Spectrum. Thank you. Thank you other members of the body that we're sex questions. Yeah, arm. Just wanted to sort of follow up to the questions that supervisor provide those asking I think they appreciate the discretion discussion so far around so especially all the progress that's been made. I think you know, I do though appreciate tat and a number of the other uc campuses csu's as well, but you see is how about much more land and constraints in terms of fitting sort of acreage of their main campuses and you know, I do I just am curious as how you know that was raised in public comment as well, but you know I saw an article down in San Diego just recently where uc San Diego is doing this srt of new development on campus and it's anywhere from 16 to 23 story sort of yet to be the fully determined. And you know, how how how are they able to do it? I guess that's the question right? You know, I mean and you might not know the specifics of the they're obviously their interest of the finances and we completely understand that construction costs have increased material costs increase interest rates and obviously Thing but you know that I think the ability to no attempt to do dense denser housing on campus I think is really important. I mean, I think previously being on the city council and the current city council has really tried to approve projects, especially in close proximity to campus that are have a greater density so they can be more well utilized for in terms of walking and biking and just their closer into the city at into the campus school campus itself. So I'm just gonna raise I understand that in Solano Park is there's no real for the development of Solano Park. But with whether it's the apartments in West Village that's sort of coming on or online or some of these other redevelopments of some of it sort of existing all dormitories. I'm just curious about what really goes into the you know, yes cost I get it, but there's got to be something more than just maybe just the cost. I mean in terms of, you know deciding how how dense and how tall and such I was curious about out have All info. Yeah, I mean there's there's a lot that goes into all of the planning on that which is why we have such great professionals on campus that we're working with our campus architecture Campus of our campus team members, and then that's why we hire Consultants from that community. So we hire Architects we hire contractors to help us walk through. What is the best density for each site? Each site is different. So each site has different. Limitations so we have to look at the footprint. We have to look at what is the Stories We want to go to and then we explore the options with the team at that point. So Shasta Hall is a good example that we originally were working through the scenario of a four-story there. We ended up increasing one of those buildings to a five story and that was through discussion with the team that we had on board. Look at. How can we get more more beds on this site? So we absolutely look at that with every project and we give it serious consideration Financial a top priority, but it is not the only priority. Thanks very much for regarding San Diego just real quick. I really can't speak to all over there are Financial for the Situation's they are different certainly a different area different case that they're dealing with down there in San Diego, And I do know that they ought to working within a significant deficit in the campus is subsidizing those programs. So one of our commenters asked about Lisa's about leasing and I know that that was part of the conversation that we had from w had this mou was sort of dissolving the leases and they did notice one of your slides that they were like 633 apartment leases. And is that the way if there are lists still remaining are they done differently than they were before or are we still do suggest you? Clarify our weekend. Thank you. Thank you for asking that we stopped doing leaseback. That's the I think the question you're asking. Is that correct? We stopped doing least back. So what do you see Lisa's on that? We have two types of product on campus. When is when you lease an actual full apartment? And the other is when you lease a bit space, but the commenter was speaking to lease back within the community many years ago. We would lease back apartments for incoming transfer students. To allow them that opportunity to transition the datas the mou and as part of our development plan. We stopped doing a number of years ago, and we currently have no least bck with any private private owners, and there's no big I know Sebastian would Promenade on the hooks not sure where that came from. Thank you, Gloria. Had a similar question about that. I it's possible that some bad information. That was put out by. Complex or misleading English, but I appreciate everything are there other questions or comments? Thank you. And thank you for the presentations. It's a really great to see sort of the overview in terms of what's been accomplished the search and I was hoping you could just go back to the slide that you showed earlier where you showed the 93% of your commitments to students were 93% of freshmen were essentially guaranteed space and then think what some percentage of returning students you made a commitment to 34, so just to help me understand in terms of returning to students. Should I then draw the conclusion that the remaining 66% live off campus or within a non-greasy living arrangement? They MAY or be graduating or leaving campus, but the 34% for returning students. So if you're a first year student freshmen live in the residence halls or transfer student living at the green your offered an opportunity to live on campus either in your current space or at another location on campus. So those are the returners for all of the students that we have the living with this area at the green. We MAY have a higher take rate. That returner population we tend to get a lot of transfer students who stay with us as year as well until they graduate from Arrow Grove. That's our family wrap housing we have over 80% returners to that property so it can change by by the neighborhood and with increase in that neighborhood. So thank you for that because I was sort of curious about whether they're different sort of of demographics different students kind of tend to stay on campus all want to stay on campus longer than other students first generation College attendees. Do they have more of an interest in being on campus? Members that's a good question. We into that granularity of is there any Transit by my demographic? Thank you. We got a lot to get through. Thank you for the presentation. I appreciate you giving us this information. Just a very quick question on the lrd pd, which was created in a very different environment in 2018. Just socially economically pre-pandemic sure. You had one set of projections increasing enrollment. We saw that sort of different reality played out differently and the mou that's in effect right now will remain in effect as long the out of tp remains in effect. So I'm wondering just has your in the absence of without creating a new vision for the nl r dp it has your thinking on husing changed in any major ways in which MAY be the perception of the mou as an update or re-entering into discussions with the city about housing. We become necessary. Good question. I wouldn't are you speaking to enter the pin post pandemic and anything for the best inform differently from the pandemic experience? I would say we definitely saw I think an increase in desired function campus housing put chemicals and I think we're starting to see that flat and a little bit now. Who are more confident living on campus more comfortable living in a generous America. I think that is adjusting to slightly ging into this year. Overall. The unit types were not seeing any major change in those. I think we're still on the right. A path with really we have a lot of great amenities on campus. So we are not ordering that in sizing or apartments or results. It's about as face having to use that space. How do we provide good space for our students see see congregate socialize build community. So otherwise Ihaven't noticed any other significant Trends and I'm not hearing it many things to someone. Thank you other questions or comments from members of the body. Seeing none. I really appreciate the updates from from staff. And and thank you so much. We'll move on now to our second regular I will turn it over to supervisor fairest this item. Thanks very much. MR. Mayor. Well the second item we have before us this evening is actually an update on certain mental health issues. We're going to have a presentation of my both Yolo County as well as uc Davis and speakers include Yolo County company. Even Services director Nolan Sullivan and uc Davis fire chief Nathan try our nails so good evening gentlemen, good to see you both and appreciate you both being here in planning on this important topic. Good evening. My name is Nolan Sullivan. I'm the Yolo County Health and Human Services director. Thank you so much for having me tonight. So we talked a kind of big picture but housing here and gave us I think we're going to talk about cheaper very specific mental health project. We have you're coming to the cony. The first one we're going to start with is something that's been about five years in the making and it's actually called crisis now 20. So there was one point o and we're talking a bit about 2.0 tonight and overhead with that Tonight about what is Crisis now? Why do we need it? Why are we building it? What are the components of Crisis now the proposed timeline and a status update. And so I think we're going to start with just kind of an initial thought is if you think about Eye Health Care System, right? So you've got to help her so something we have a primary care physician. DR. You can see during business hours. You can make appointments Christian Care generally after hours. If you have kind of an emergency at the not quite the emergency room to access that care ad then they had room to We don't have something similar something on part of in the middle Health System. All right, so when you think about the mental health system of care, generally, we had a psychiatrist and a mental health professional during the day you have some clinics and then the county has student some emergency beds and generally those are very hard to access. So what we're sort of talking about today is filling the Gap and the Gap stuff that I'm talking about specifically is really if you are in Mntal Health crisis in Allah and cornea today normal candidate here in Davis v much have two options. Option is emergency room. And then the second option is a little County jil. And so either of those options are fantastic and ending on your diagnosis depending on what you've got going on generally in the emergency room. You're going to be sedated and dedicated and held until you And it will be senses. It's hard to connect with follow-up care and obviously in the jail. It's not always the most appropriate place to provide the model which are so you'll depending about eight years ago said there's got to be better. And so we started looking for a by many different models around the nation. That's how came up with Christ to know. So the three cre components. We'll talk a little bit more about as I go through my slides are three primary chunks. The first is a crisis and respite chair. That's a chair for up to 24 hours and I see a chair I don't mean to share. When I'm sitting in it's a large clinical Lazy Boy chair that is staffed with clinicians and mental health professionals on staff 24/7. This chair can be used you have someone come down from no no ha can see it can be used to help someone gained sobriety has created or intoxicated so graphing that share and its staff 24/7 in a facility with professionals and mental health professionals If someone needs a little more than 24 hours, then we're building a series of the 30-day crisis beds. We can see crisis treatment 24 hours a day for around 30 days. So starting with the chairs graduating to the beds and then building that whole team around that which we'll talk about in just a second which would be our crisis intervention technicians and clinicians that will all be dispatched by the 24/7 dispatched across the county so really building just this new system that doesn't exist fr mental health emergencies and that's kind of where we're heading. So this is the background. So again this project started way back when in SEPTEMBER 20