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Standing by. City of david city council tuesday, JULY 1st, 2025 captions standing by. From chinese are in second. Second, vice mayor, neville any discussion. All in favor. Say I I, I n n motion passes, 5 to zero brief announcements from our city manager. Sorry, I just stepped away. Did you pull item 3 e before you approve the agenda? Okay, did not? Yeah, let me re redo that. Let me let me actually make the motion. Uh, the developer is not quite ready for item e on the consent calendar. So we're going to pull that entirely from the agenda. Let me uh, recruit the agenda, minus item. 3e is there a second second, second vice mayor, neville any discussion. All in favor. Say I MAY abstain motion passes 5 z. All right. Thank you very much and I apologize for that. Um, so just 2 announcements. This evening 1 we just wanted to note for the the record that our annual water quality report has been released and this report lists all the constituents detected in the city's water supply, and information about water sources, what it contains and how it compares to state and federal standards and other related information. So, the annual report is required by the state and released every year in JUNE, um, for more information or to see past reports, you can go to www, city of davis.Org water, quality or contact. The the city. We will also mail paper copies out to people. If they are interested in seeing that and then the second announcement is just a reminder that uh JULY 4th is this friday. City offices are closed and we do have a citywide free celebration in community park starting at 4 pm and concluding with fireworks uh about fireworks, start about 9:35. So this is dark, um there's a little bit of smething for everybody to do at the park and we hope everybody will cme out and enjoy it. It actually looks like it won't be terrible weather. Uh, looks like it'll be pleasant and to have a lot of fun. So that, is it for this evening? Thank you. Okay, any announcements or liaison reports from my calls. Okay, any intention l l, the planning commission action item. Anything else? Okay. Uh, let's go ahead and move on to general public comment. This comment period is for folks who cannot stay for 1 of the later items. We would like to comment now or wish to comment on items that are not on the agenda. Please confirm you have 2 minutes. My name is, um, actually I was just reading the agenda, my name is, um, actually I was just reading the agenda. I noticed the a lot of like divided men and uh uh real estate related, you know. Agendas. Um, I served for the uh, city of davis historical resources management commission for, um, I think 5 years and the recently this commission was dismissed and all the job went to planning commission. I kind of feel, you know, the uh historical resources management commission is more for the humanity, you know, & for history. And the planning is more for the physical implement. Um so I have a suggestion, you know, I don't have to be on the plan, uh, the commission, uh it's my background, my name is nan. I'm the grand, got the last chinese empire, and I'm the legal owner for a huge fund called the new 1 so prop. And I believe, you know, uh, davis city. A lot of uh, buildings is related to my family history as well. So I have a suggestion, you know, if the city can make an effort to reorganize this historical, resources management commission, and also, uh, state has a requirement. You, you cannot just, you know, out if it's designated, uh, uh, as a historical monuments. Um, that's my suggestion for today. Thank you. Welcome. Good evening. I wanted to support the annexation of the campus. Uh davis has a long history of uh disenfranchising students. Uh this goes back to the construction of aggie village um where because it was faculty housing. We were somehow able to annex it into the city, so the those people could participate. But then 10 years later, uh, when uh, west village. Came up in private, I had someone who's no longer in politics, so I'm not going to say who it was pretty much. They straight up told me in a private conversation that they didn't want students voting in town and uh um you know, it's part of historical. It's a little bit of cracking, we'll put that these kids on that side of the line. And, and so we'll, we'll reduce their voting power. Um, so it's, you know, there's different jurisdictions. There's special laws about students coming away where they can vote, when their students away from their home and all of that stuff. But at the end of the day, I think that if we want people to be part of civil society, we should engage with them and allow them to participate. It's always funny when people run, uh, they always want the campus. Dems, the campus republicans, whoever they always want their support. You know, but when it comes time to give them the right to vote in city elections, uh davis has a long history of suppression and I think you guys should change it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good evening, city council members. I'm a director on the board of yellow county, association of realtors and a committee member of our government affairs committee. I stand here this evening. To speak on behalf of hundreds, of yellow county realtors we have the privilege to sit knee to knee and the living rooms of your friends, your neighbors, and your constituents, helping them both, buy and sell real estate in davis. We are there signed fiduciary. Representation and we take that role very seriously. I say this to impress upon the need for us to be able to communicate with the city regarding the davis city resale inspection. We have been trying without success to get clear answers to get clarification from the community development department regarding this ordinance. We have submitted formal letter, requesting information weeks ago. We have received no response. We're not asking for any changes simply clarification. so we MAY accurately inform our clients when they write their checks to the city, what they are to expect. The real estate professionals. We are the ones having the daily conversations to enforce this ordinance. We ultimately are your partner and ensuring a smooth execution of the ordinance. Our clients, your constituents, the taxpayers deserve answers and not confusion and certainly not a delay. They deserve a transparent and responsive government body. Delay. And silence create fear frustration, and missed opportunities for families to make informed decisions about their biggest investment, their home. We are asking for you to direct the appropriate staff to respond to our questions. We are ready to work together. To ensure the ordinance is communicated accurately, and fairly thank you for your time. And thank you for prioritizing. Clear communication. Thank you. Welcome. Hello, hello, city council members and also hello neighbors. Um, as you can see, I brought a sign that we are all very familiar with being davis's for everyone. Um, I believe that. We should hold on to the rest of the center and invest into moving it into south davis. I was there at the last meeting and I heard a lot of the meanings of fellow neighbors. And I can understand why tey feel taxed. Uh, they have been in possession of the rest of the center for almost 5 years, um, over by the 711. I personally live in south davis, and I am quite close to the railways. I, frequently, run into fellow owners all the time. I'll own my my path where I'm you know, cycling around. And I think that removing the rest of the center would be a great mistake because they would have no third space to go. I think it's quite logical. I see quite a few of them out there, um, and they are with very few spaces to occupy. But when I frequently go to the reset center and see how they often times invest, and as well as sometimes, the place needs extra help. Um, it is very lively and warm at times, I think removing it, unfortunately is ging & to affect everybody because then without any place to go, it's only natural that tey will get closer and closer to the original complaints that were made in the last month. Thank you for allowing this time to speak about it earlier. Um, as some of us cannot make it to the later times and thank you all for your consideration. Thank you. Welcome. Alan miller. You, uh, when I was looking to expand my learning on nonviolence, 20 years ago, I went to a movie at a local church, and the first scene was a nazi troop train being derailed in denmark. And then the entire, uh, train was ambushed and all the nazis were machine gunned. And killed. Everybody was sort of like, I thought this was a movie on nonviolence. And it, when we had the question and answer and people asked they said, well, the point is non-violence is a strategy. And, it doesn't work against hundreds of our nazis coming into your country. By the way, after I spoke to hrc last week and left. Scott sewer, expressed his displeasure that someone called the anti-s not real jews at the previous cc. I I can fix that. You are real jews again. How easy was that? It is amazing. The power that people bestow upon me. But about the special to the enterprise. Why did I say that? Not real jews? Well, I was being a jerk because they are being jerks. Described as an atmosphere of fear of silencing eraser discrimination intimidation and retaliation by a small group of pro-israel activists is arabs and jews. Meaning anti-zionist jews versus a small group of israel activists. Well. They bring up the g-word but I would call that a supposition. How long would it take to wipe out gaza? Everybody in a week using napalm, does anyone really believe that the israeli military is that incompetent? I'm not trying to be flipping about the deaths of war but that's what this is israel is trying to destroy hamas. Thank you. I like those in. Denmark. Your time violence are not an effective response to an invasion. To any more in-house, the public. Any recorded public comment. Is speaking on item 2, public comment, and as of left in a day ago, no longer needing to pay speaking as an individual throughout the meeting. So, first off, I'm glad that the council decided to make the reduction in membership of the fiscal commission, temporary with the goal of continuing to recruit new commissioners and trying to bring the membership back up to the regular level as soon as possible. Since I think it's important for the fiscal commission to have a regular number of numbers. If it's reasonably possible to do that, and on that note, while it's important for fiscal commissioners to have relevant knowledge and expertise, I think it should also be acknowledged that formal knowledge and expertise is not the only type of relevant knowledge or expertise even though sometimes people think of it in that way. So I hope that when deciding on who will be and effective and good fiscal commissioner, broader. Notions of relevant knowledge and expertise and experience are considered. And then on item, l of the consent calendar about the planning commission's proposal to look into the idea of the, uh, uc davis campus becoming part of the city of davis. I would support allowing the planning commission to do this. I think that it's important to allow commissions, this type of autonomy around issues that are relevant to them. And if the planning commission thinks this will be valuable, I think that they should be allowed to at least look into it. And I also think there are some good arguments for the campus becoming part of the city that should be re-evaluated and reconsidered. Hi, this is alan for general public comment. Couple items. 1 item 3d vm the moving transportation forward project. It towards trees again, if you look at the blue bus stops, that's the new davis collection mall. Um, russell, you'll find the bus stops are shadeless. Shadeless. Just like the bus stop at athens cobell. We haven't learned anything. We had bus stops at the rain protection, but those rain protection second I know we're putting in a wonderful new & water feature natalie's corner at central park, but to be also get the 2 drinking fountains on the north end of the park to work. I think that'd be very important water feature for the rest of us. And third is if the human relations commission meeting. I know there's been a lot of comments about, uh, concern about these and what I see, anti-semitism given, no reported behavior incidents or crime in the last month. Matter of fact in the last 12 months has only been 3, preceding multimeter incidents in the last 12 months. So, um, I think that should be noted in terms of those scales. The problem with facing here. Thank you very much. Bye, bye. Great. Is there any, uh is there a motion to pass the consent calendar? Mine is items, e. And l, second second by vice mayor, neville any discussion. All in favor. Say I, I I same motion passes 5 to zero. And if my colleagues are okay, we'll just move to the full items which is a planning commission action item. Daryl sherry if you have anything to say, come on up, otherwise we'll just keep talking to people. Is the cuncil looking for a brief staff presentation, only if they're interested in saying something first, otherwise, you can just jump into the discussion you. Yeah. So let me just, uh, say a little bit about why I pulled this. You know, my feeling uh on this is counter to what staff is recommending a do you think we should encourage plan commission subcommittee to go forward on this for a few reasons. 1 is it's been 15 years since any discussion of the annexation has really happened in my knowledge. U, lot has changed and that time including 208, the chancellor had his house, force and student housing security and something like 1, sixth of students were were housing and secure. We know that. With chancellor MAY. The situation is greatly improved, around university commitment, to building housing, and coordinating national land. Use planning. There's still a lot of nuance on the land. Use disadvantage in the advantages of, um, acting in a, in a much, more unified fashion, including through annexation. So I'm curious about, um, whether there are various versions of this idea, including focusing on student housing, that's adjacent to the city, for example, um, on aggressive. I also the second reason is we created a reformed commission process for coming up with tasks and this is 1 of the first. I think, maybe the first that's come across our our plate and I'm loathe to in an idea that has planning commission support is 4 to 2 did have supports in the majority. Support, that doesn't seem like uh an unproductive idea. I think it's an interesting conversation. At least have uh I'm love to to shot te commission down, um to go against them and kind of the first uh field test of the new reform process. So to me it's it's a worthwhile enough policy topic to to say, go ahead. Yeah. Last thing point I'll make is is a political point. More that how I'd like to see this go forward if it does is in a collaborative fashion with the university, you know, really, um, that should be the first bullet point. Here is to encourage the subcommittee to reach out to uc davis, and its representatives, and talk about their own positions on, um, annexation either in part or or the whole, um, and what they perceive as advantages disadvantages. I'm not interested in a confrontational stance or antagonistic stance with the university here. I'm very interested in working together on the least exploring. Uh, this idea, it MAY be that we don't take very many steps forward um beyond this but um I I actually you know, as long as we keep it collaborative I see a lot of vlue in doing what the bullet points indicate which is simply researching what other cities and college campuses have done. What are the motivations benefits and challenges. But to do this in a way, that's very much in collaboration with the office. So those are my reasons for pointing, it would love to hear other comments or questions. We can also take public comment in any of it. We're ready. She prefer to do that first. I'd like to take public comment on this first. Okay, great. Any in-house public on it? I just I also like and my question is, you know, um on waterbased the city of planning commission has the right to just ask you to davis be part of the city of the day is is kind of a the, you know, I I just don't see how that will work, it's for the item l. I I have. You know, talk about this and it's just a housing. I, I don't know, quite understand this, uh, item l. It's just for the housing part of the city for planning wants to put. And, and the needs of each city, there is or the whole campus. Item. L. Yeah, so that's my question and question. Um, yeah, I I another question is that, do you know the um, the new technology, you know, there are non-human like bio engineers things around. Do you know the person how like, in the student community the same matter when we say, uh, there is for everyone, you know, that's my question for the the the ai was the human thank you. Thank you very much. Good evening, mayor council, kelly reeves, director of local government relations for uc davis, appreciate the opportunity to come and speak on this item. The university does have concerns regarding annexation as a conversation. However, as a very good partner, with te city and county, we are willing to talk with the appropriate parties as necessary. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming. Any other in-house public comments. Okay, great. I'll turn it back to my colleagues from questions or comments. That's what it is. I can start off on this. I was a I had attended the planning commission meeting for this was discussed and there was definitely robust discussion on this issue. Um, it was a 4 to 2 v, I believe, 1 of the um, commissioners was absent that day at that time, but that's fine. I 100% support the staff on this position on this. Their conclusions, their analysis on this. I just don't see how there's any capacity right now with our staff. With our commission to take time on this at this time, considering we've got the general plan update, considering we've got major development. Projects coming forward. I just don't see this being the time to be focused on this if the subcommittee can wants to go off and do work and involve no staff at all, if that's even realistic, maybe I could be oen to it, but I just don't see that being the case. And I'm also like and what would we do with this? I mean if we have no tax advantage, let me back back u, I & recognize what you're saying or have others have said about disenfranchising disenfranchisement of students. We've got a lot of students who live in town who have plenty of opportunities to participate in the process. And apparently vote at home, or vote elsewhere because the participation rate from students has just been historically, low, no matter. Trust me all of us who have been candidates, reach out to those students and try over and over again, in different ways. And, don't get the same response back. Um, as far as engagement here, I don't see how annexation changes that. I I I just don't see how that would make a difference. When it comes to monies there, I don't see any increase in getting any sales tax income there. There's not a lot of sales tax revenue coming from there. I don't know how we would work. The fact we have yellow candy, solano county involved here. I don't again, I'm bringing up things that could be investigated to find out more how it happened in mercedes, which is a brand new campus for berkeley, which is our oldest campus and how it could have come down and that way. Housing, I think we're addressing housing in other ma in other ways and are working in partnership with uc davis. With regard to that. I just don't see the capacity of staff to do I don't see a fiscal reason to do it. I just I just doesn't make sense that. Now there's a time to even be exploring. This, that those are my initial comments ad thank you mayor. Thank you, councilor. Das. Any other comments? Thanks man. I share your desire to, you know, engage the commissions and and especially having just gone through with the reform process, you know? It's I will just say I think it's for me personally, it's really unfortunate for me that this is the first, uh, proposal that's come to us, um, because I'm I'm not supportive of it. Um, I'm not going to repeat all the reasons, but, um, I think primarily it's just, it's not the right time to be doing this work. Um, if you look at what annexation usually entails, it's it's it's the exception rather than the rule in um, the history of irvine is well documented and unique, um, or said is also somehow unique. Um, I can't imagine asking our city staff to assist with that. I mean, I realize the commissioners could really find all that information. It's all out there. I think. But the fundamental thing for me is that the university of california is a constitutionally independent entity. It does not py any property taxes whatsoever and if annexation will occur, we would potentially be assuming liability for municipal services in an area where we received no property, tax revenue, which just is for me, kind of an absolute non-starter in the current fiscal climate. Um, you know, and also I appreciate this notion that we want students to vote, um, and be involved in the community. I do too, but that's why we provide a lot of opportunities for them. Uh, we se students participate on our commissions. You know, the majority of student, many of the students live off campus. After their first year. I don't see that as a reason to annex the campus into the city because of the risks of annexation are are so great. Um, and and just also, you know, and what you made the point you about how housing has gotten so much better under the recent chancellor, and I agree and there's a much more collaborative, um, relationship now than there was a decade ago, and that's wonderful. Um, there's so much we can still do under that collaborative relationship. And in fact, in fact, in the, um, the arguments that we received from the planning commission, a lot of the things they were describing they want to happen. Can be done. Irrespective of annexation we can do those. We can do joint ventures with the university. We don't need to annex santa app receive approval for annexation to do that kind of work. So so that's why I'm at on this I'm I would support staff's recommendations generally they're just not to go forward with the planning commission for policy. Thank you, vice mayor, other comments. Sure. Um so I am also have concerns about the timing of this and only because we've got a lot that's coming forward in the next couple of years. And it's, it's not something that I am. Um, uh, you know, completely opposed to. But I think that the timing is just not good. Uh, at the moment we have, um, um, the area that um, what is it? It used to be parales mobile home. What is it now? No. In south davis. The yes, some of the royal oaks royal that was. Yeah. That that area which is which is which makes more sense. Like if we're talking about annexation that that little piece makes a lot more sense to me. Um if we were going to, if we were going to expand any uh, effort on annexation. So that that's square metal. Like I said, I'm not opposed to its intriguing. Uh but I don't think that this is the the correct time to do that. Council member council member chapman. Thank you, mayor, and thank you to my colleagues for your comments? Yeah, a couple of different things for me with the kind of boils down to I um, appreciate the um, the requests coming for. I think it is a conversation that um, should be had a couple things that stood out for me is 1, is I think that the university and the county, the county will be impacted by this significantly, something like that happened. Um should be at the table prior to this coming to us whether they're coming to the planning commission. Have a nice day and be engaged being involved. Um, in the this conversation, instead of asking them to be engaged and involved. Uh, once a decision has been made to go down that road. Um, the other piece um, is I do think that from a timing standpoint. There are 3 things, right? We're in the middle of a general plan update and we have 2 large peripheral projects that are in the pipeline that the people that would work on this with the commission are the same exact team that would be dealing with annexing of the, the proposals around this around the annexation. So the timing of it for me is a bit worrisome. I also think it's hard to get, you know, who are the right people to be at the table with the university and with the county through this conversation, do we as a body want the commission, a subcommittee on the commissions to be. Negotiating, or having these conversations with the university, as representatives of us or us as the city is that the are those the right people to be meeting with the university and going down this path? I know. I'm not saying they are, they are not, but I think that's another piece that we, um, need to to talk about. So overall, for me, they cut falls down to something. We were talking about this earlier kind of does & it contribute to the health and well-being of the city? And I think, in this moment, in time, we have a lot happening and I think we need to focus on what we have on our system. Okay, thank you. Oh yeah. I mean, clearly, uh, there's no support for this won't bother making motion. I I would just say that I think we need to clarify a little bit the the commission, uh not necessarily even the process, but what's happening in different stages? The ordering of the process but, you know, to me, um, this is a very preliminary discussion where um, a finding commission member brought forth an idea how to discuss, uh, I don't think it's inappropriate to have that discussion and commission level. And then have I approved by council for prix preliminary work before reaching out to university or and then have it approved by council for prix preliminary work before reaching out to university or county. You know, it has to start somewhere. In fact, the opposite seems a little stranger to me if um, members on the planning commission and reached out to the university or the county to have those discussions before they discussed it as a body, right? So I I I think, uh, we just need to maybe have a discussion next time we have um commission related. Ated items process related items on our expectations, for the process because I do think there should be some um, level of, uh, ease around the initial stages of exploring ideas and not constrained to too strong. So those are my views sounds like you. Yeah I have a question. So then are you saying that what you're asking for? Is that uh you know, this is something that's been brought forth from the planning commission as a request to have a conversation per te per what, you know, we sort of set up in our system, um, and not necessarily uh as uh, council member diyos suggested involve staff and resources to do that. And if and if it is just the, you know, giving permission to the commission to have that conversation. Um I'm not opposed to that. As long as it, it doesn't go any further then that, and that the, and there's not a burden on staff. Yeah, I would agree & that. I mean, I, to me, I think, uh, we can decide those, um, we can make those decisions here around scope of work and what. And, and I think what I'm hearing is that we definitely need to talk to you. We see, and we need to talk to the county, um, but this feels very much like information gathering or or we could stipulate that it's really just information gathering. I um just I'm trying to honor the fact that the the commission and its members, followed the process and staff did a great job of doing the analysis. And giving your honest, opinion on the various, uh, aspects of whether this aligns or doesn't align. So it in a way, the process has worked so far. And I think either decision is valid on on our part. Um, I do think it's fairly harmless for us to say to the commission. Um, to give the commission the parameters that you just said there, you know, gather information, talk to stakeholders and bring that iformation back to the commission for a discussion. Don't involve stuff. You know? So uh, well, I don't know. I'll make a motion. I'll make a motion along the lines of. Yeah. Uh, information gathering to have conversations with the university and the county. Um, uh, and not uh put any burden on staff, resources, simply for the subcommittee itself to do that. That work. A second. Sure. Yeah, I mean I would turn to our staff team to have a conversation with them about the reality of. Because, I mean, they're they have to report to staff, right. They're commissioned, right? So they're going to be, they're going to there will be touch points along the way and I a little bit of my concern is if we're & saying I mean, it's it's basically what's in here but not including staff, right? So you know I guess the conversation I would have is is is a commission subcommittee. The right, the right group to be meeting with university officials and county officials to talk about potential annexation. I mean, to me if it's information gathering, that's 1 of the means we have to university officials and county officials to talk about potential annexation. I mean to me if it's information gathering, that's 1 of the means we have to do, right? If it's negotiation certainly not absolutely not right. But what I see here is um items that have to really do with maybe a university officials and county officials to talk about potential annexation. I mean, to me if it's information gathering, that's 1 of the means we have to do, right? If it's negotiation, certainly have to create a staff report to agenda it and bring it back to the commission, right? So they're, they're going to be engaged in working with our staff team. No matter what in order to bring this back, right? And for me, I I just I mean, because they're not going to just do this and never come back to the commission with it, right? Then I'm going to do all this research and then take that information and go somewhere else never report that. So it has to go to south. I'm going to have to meet with staff. They're going to have to go through that process to get this a staff report made to get an agenda is to get a staff recommendation in place. Right, and then have have a meeting and then get that move forward, research it, and bring it back to us for a recommendation if that's what is approved and planning commission. So I so for me that I think it's hard and that's why I was saying I think we should have staff around. How do you can you carve them out of this process? And if that's the case, I mean the important piece that you're describing is around the general plan and I want our amazing staff team to really be focused in on the general plan um, as a process too. So I would turn to you guys and our staff team to figure out the reality of carving staff completely out of something like this. Thank you council member chapman. Um, I would concur with your characterization in terms of what the process would look like once the commission concluded, their research, there would be steps that I, I don't. Think could avoid them. Um, I don't know that the task process as it's been laid out, um, goes to the next steps. So, I think, as this is 1 of the first ones, or the first 1, we would be navigating what that process looks like in creating the process as well as working through that process. Um, so I I would just offer that as this 1 being the the first 1 there has been a lot of sort of housekeeping, working through the process. And just, you know, being the first 1, so we'll get better at it as as we work through this process and I think it's a very valid process. I actually found it to be a perfect timing for some of the conversations that planning commission has been bringing up for the last year and a half or so. Um, but yeah, I I don't know. I don't know how you would limit completely take staff out of it. I even even through if it was somehow integrated into the general plan update process and we have a consultant who's doing a lot of the leg work on behalf of the city. I'm just nt sure what that would look like. So, perhaps we can have some further conversations about that once we understand what the council's expectations would be. Yeah, I mean I think it's it's a fair point. I just I think there's probably a continuum of the staff involvement on any given, right? And we get staff reports that are a paragraph. I mean, it's actually right. So, uh, in this particular case, I think what we're saying up here is that we really just want information gathering we've seen stuffs kind of uh work here on how they feel about the scope and maybe there's an additional on the information that's gathered maybe staff has more to say but I think there's a potential limit of staff involvement considerably in this particular idea if it's limited to information gathering any other discussion on the item. Yeah. Yeah, so I I I'm still I'm just going to say I would not be based on what I'm hearing, what I'm understanding. I'm not comfortable with a commission subcommittee, going out ad meeting with county and university officials. I appreciate that. We think it would just be in the name of fact, finding and information gathering. But I still think that it could create a lot of potential confusion about who has what authority and who's doing what on behalf of the city. Um I'm I'm still in the place where I just don't think it's the right time to be doing this work. Um, you know, I'm looking at the list of things they want to look at. Um, it's all all things. Someone could do, you know, kind of on their own without a lot of staff support and bring it forward and make a stronger case for what they want to do, but I just don't think we we have the staff capacity right now to support this work. Yeah, on the comments and everybody and if you're coming to and all of you, I see where you're coming from, I truly do. I just don't see that. We have the capacity now for our commissioners, and with our staff, we've got a fat fabulous planning commission, who has a lot of expertise, but I really want to see focused on these developments coming forward and focused on the general plan and not focused on something that has very little likelihood. Currently of getting a support of the city council to go forward on and so I'd like the precious time that everyone has to be focused on what we have said. W want them to work on and I also feel this is a success of this process. I mean, they had a very robust discussion at the planning commission meeting. I thought it was really good talked about the various things and then did what the process said. Okay, we talked about this, we voted on this you have to be canceled? Wants us to go, it's happened. We're having that discussion, and at least a few of us are saying almost stopped. Now, for now, doesn't mean it's forever. Does it mean don't come back in a couple years or or whatever time frame, but I still think we, I, we have honored that we MAY we didn't stop and say, no, you can't bring it to the city council. Say no, bring it up. Let's let's us have that discussion and we're doing that. Session. Okay, all in favor say I I al I see. Okay, motion, fails 4 to 1 and let's move on to the regular calendar item 4, um, I think kelly actually. Need a an alternative motion to accept staff's recommendation or no. Do do we do do we need a motion there? I think it would be cleanest if you made a motion to move forward, with staff's recommendation, so I would lose gas recommendation. Second by second by council me by are you a motion passes 4 to 1? Okay, let's move on to item 4 yolo, community foundation, presentation of the state of nonprofits. So, I'm going to very & quickly turn this over to jessica hubard and karina verde who are both um, part of the yellow community foundation. Um, jessica, I believe was going to introduce the topic and then, uh, carolina is going to present the information on um, the state of the nonprofit sector in our community. Good evening. Thank you so much for having us here tonight. We really appreciate the opportunity to share. Um, I'm here to give the introduction before my colleague, uh, shares the main information, but you heard our introduction not too long ago when we came to share about our arts grant making. So I'll go here this quickly. The yellow community foundation was founded on nearly 25 years ago, um, to inspire and support giving and provide philanthropic leadership in our diverse community of yellow county. We do that through 3. Primary pillars, the first is inspiring giving or encouraging, more, giving throughout yellow county. We do that primarily by offering donor advise funds and other charitable giving vehicles that make giving more impactful, um more uh efficient and more and tax advantage. Secondly, we support philanthropists. Um, our fun holders, put other donors in the community as well. We offer a thought leadership products, education and 1-on-1 support to help them be inspired to give educated to achieve their goals and connected to our local community. And finally, we serve nonprofits first by doing those first 2 things. Well, in which case, we're increasing the quality and quantity of given locally, secondly, as fund holders are um we have about 120 125 funds, uh, with the collective 14 and a half million in assets and about a third of those are set up by nonprofits and government agencies. Including the city of davis. Um, third, we serve nonprofits through grant-making. We did about 2 million dollars in grant making last year. Um, the large majority of that to local nonprofits. And then finally through training programs like our yolen program which supports nonprofits and capacity building programs to help nonprofits improve back office operations and our nonprofit leaders alliance wich is a capacity building and community building series. And with that, I'll turn it over to carolina. Good evening everyone. Um, each year, we aim to understand the themes and trends that are impacting our communities and those who serve them. With the goal in mind we conduct the state of the sector report. Uh we sent out the state of the sector report to hundreds of nonprofit professionals this year. Um these organizations represent the beautiful communities that span, yolo county and offer services, to our neighbors in areas like mental health youth, services arts and culture and environmental sustainability, without these organizations and the services, they provide many of our yolo county neighbors would lack access to vital community resources. The results of this survey help us understand unmet needs encourage collaboration, and provide transparency of the successes and challenges the sector faces in our county. Nonprofits play a vital role in supporting local government by addressing community needs delivering essential services in filling gaps. That public agencies MAY not have the resources to cover. Through partnerships advocacy and specialized expertise nonprofits. enhance the effectiveness of local programs, promote civic engagement. And help ensure the vulnerable. Populations are not overlooked. Together, nonprofits and local governments work to build stronger, more resilient communities. Um, this year, we you if you want to read the full report, you can say, I always forget. This is here. If you want to read the full report, you can scan the qr code. Um, we're going to do a brief overview today, so I'll leave this up for a couple seconds. Um, so this year we had 68 organizations, who completed the survey. Um, an interesting fact that we noticed was when we compared the organizations, who completed the survey this year compared to last year, we had 29 organizations who did not complete it last year. So that's a 43%, a difference in the respondents. Um, so that's something we're going to be tracking & over time is um, responses from, uh, same organizations over years. Um, as you can see, the majority of responses came from organizations in davis, followed by woodland. Um, and for the tird year, we're seeing expenses outpacing revenue, thank you, uh, with 53% of organizations seeing their expenses, increase by at least 10% and 37% of organizations reporting an increase in revenue by at least 10% nonprofits. Expect this trend to uh continue in 2025, I know that we're over halfway through 2025, we created this report back in back in MARCH um knowing that this year could be a financially challenging year. We explored what safeguards organizations have in place in order to allow for sustainability. Reserves and endowments are a great way for organizations to whether financial storms. Um, unfortunately this year, we're seeing a decrease in the amount of reserves on hand for organizations with almost 52% of organizations reporting they have less than 6 months of reserves. This is a big increase from last year with uh 29% of organizations saying that had 6 months or less of reserves. Um, we are seeing a stabilization in staffing which is great. Uh, we've been seeing this trend steadily grow over time since pandemic, & um, and 30% of organizations are saying that they are & able to provide salaries that keep pace with inflation. Um, for volunteering trends, uh, burnout continues to be a uh, clear indicator of challenge. Um, but we are seeing organizations getting creative with how they're recruiting and also how they're sustaining volunteers whether that's creating new, uh, volunteer hours schedules. And also making sure that the type of volunteer work, they're providing is to the interest of those who are volunteering with them. So for this year, a theme that you're we're going to touch on a lot is going to be sustainability and throughout the report sustainability will be discussed across staffing, volunteers, finances, and organizational systems. This year we identified 3 key themes while reviewing the responses and our presentation today will focus on ongoing financial constraints, strengthening nonprofit boards and sustainability for staff and volunteers. We know that the nonprofit sector has been overcoming financial challenges especially since co. And we want to understand what are the major factors that contribute to these financial challenges. First and foremost, uh, many nonprofits are concerned about government funding with 47% of nonprofits uh, reporting a decline in government, funding will either somewhat or significantly drive down their revenues. This coupled with the ending of 1-time, pander, pandemic era funds has organizations concerned about their financial futures. Nonprofits, are attempting to diversify funding to build resilience and remain optimistic. They're holding fundraising events, building aareness, using marketing and communications and building capacity to improve financial sustainability. Um, we did ask organizations if they had additional funding, what they would use it for and the majority of organizations responded that they would put it towards hiring more, programs staff. Um, this shows us that there is an increase in service needs for the community and that nonprofits are having a challenge meeting. Those needs because of um the lack of staffing. Um, our second theme touches on the opportunities to support nonprofits in the form of board service in the past, we heard from nonprofits, there's an opportunity for increased poor diversity and they're interested in engaging a broader range of perspectives experiences and skills to better reflect the communities, they serve and strengthen their organization's leadership and decision-making. The theme continues as 48% of organizations reported that less than 10% of their board, is by clock, which means black indigenous people of color. This unfortunately is not reflective of the yolo county population with over 50% of yolo, county residents, identifying as bip park, in addition, to this only 13% of nonprofits reported, having a majority bip park board. In conversations with nonprofits, they noted that volunteers including board members often come from a limited demographic and there's a growing interest to engage a broader more representative group. When asked what the biggest challenges were in, recruiting board members, nonprofits, cited, time constraints for prospective board members in a limited pool of candidates. Nonprofits, feel that potential members might be hesitant to join due to busy schedules and small communities or niche organizations, struggle to find qualified or interested individuals. Um, for staffing and volunteers. We've seen a stabilization staffing with 59% of organizations reporting their staffing, remain the same and almost 30% of organizations reporting an increase in staffing. However, this was overshadowed by high concerns about burnout with 44% of organizations reporting their very concerned about staff burnout. 1 of the themes, within staffing and volunteering is the increased needs of our community members, our communities are facing growing challenges, and nonprofits are experiencing higher demand for services while simultaneously navigating limited resources and volunteering engagement struggles. This is leading to staff and volunteers feeling high levels of burnout and organizations, expressing concerns about staff leaving for other sectors. At the time that we collected this data there wasn't um any data to represent that staff are leaving for other sectors but it's definitely something that we would like to track. For our volunteer run organizations. They are also experiencing their own challenges. 75% of organizations, feel their volunteer volunteer needs are met but they are concerned about burnout. Wanted to return back to the theme of sustainability. Uh, sustainability is the foundation that supports nnprofits in delivering, lasting impact, financial sustainability. empowers nonprofits to plan grow and adapt effectively. Consistent staffing, reduces burnout, and strengthens long-term organizational impact engaged, volunteers expand, reach, strengthen community ties and boost capacity. And strong operations, ensure structure accountability and smooth program delivery. To close out. I want to discuss the path forward in ways. Local government can support nonprofits in their city. Collaboration. And coordination can look like including nonprofits and planning efforts tasks force task forces or advisory boards to ensure alignment and shared goals access to public spaces offering free or reduced cost use of facilities for meetings events, or programs, and dta sharing providing access to local data or research to help nonprofits, make informed decisions and demonstrate impact. Thank you very much. So much for your presentation. Uh, let me take public comment first and then a little bit soon as our council discussion any in-house public comment. We recorded sir, great, we recorded sir, great my colleagues and your comments. Sure, thank you for your presentation. I always appreciate it. I don't really have a lot of questions. This is your kind of describing my own personal experience with my current nonprofit board and folks I work with so but I thank you for providing this very valuable information. The other comments. Sure. Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation. I have heard this presentation before. Um, and it's and it's good every time. So, uh, thank you so much and I know that you put a lot of work into the community, and I know that you've grown the efforts that you've put out, and it's benefited the the nonprofits in yolo, county greatly. And every time, we have a big day of giving the um the numbers that come out of yolo county are really impressive and so, yolo county should be proud of the way it supports is nonprofits, and the nonprofits that are sort of grown here. And so thank you for for continuing to make that a possibility for nonprofits. And uh, because it's a, it's tough. As a, you know, person who runs a nonprofit I really, you know, can appreciate the, um, the challenges that are out there and um, putting the call very clearly. As you have here is helpful. It's helpful for, you know, for nonprofits to, um, to, use that. And it's also I think helpful for raising the awareness of folks and, um, sort of driving home why it's important to support nonprofits. And especially now, when we are getting so much, um, around how uh, you know, support from lke the federal government and from local government from, you know, the state of california, they were our budgets are at and how little, um, you know, it it how little resources are available from those sources and how they're sort of going away, makes it even more important for communities to support this nonprofits, because the the uh burden on nonprofits always gets greater when those resources are gone. So thank you. Yeah. Just thank you, mayor. Yeah. And thank you again. I've heard it before, and I think what's different. I was going to say is what COUNCILMAN Partena just touched on, right? Te, the financing, uh, world has changed so much and we're living under these different times that, uh, not many of us ever lived under before. So that is a huge um, worrisome, right? Worry to nonprofits and how to get their dollars because also it hits our donors, right pockets right in this with inflation things that are happening. People tend to um kind of tighten up and donate less so I appreciate you bringing this and continue to do the road show that you do to bring awareness to what's happening. Um and especially with the current environment, how you, um, you know, express what the importance is of being engaged involved and also in the city side, I look at but I start thinking about this here like to call to action of things that that we can do to help support your organization and nonprofits in our in & our own space. That doesn't require us to or people to to handle more money, right? And how we can be better partners with that, so thank you. Let's move it. That's what it is. I think I thank you for the work that was put in put into this report. It was very informative. I'm just thrilled. How engaged yellow county is and how much we give as a community in the county and in davis, and I just points out more to me, how much more partnership do we have any more partnerships can be formed between? Nonprofits, the city county and such as that to work together. Going forward on projects. You know, I think of false place for example is think something when you get it with public funds, private funds, nonprofit etc. I'm just thrilled with the work that you can do in these very challenging times. And keep keep it up. Thank you. Just run. Volunteer coordination is there. Have other city governments helped their nonprofit sector uh through creating something like a centralized portal for volunteer recruitment. Just wondering, you know, I know that you're showing the strains on volunteers and I also know tat there's probably hundreds of & people out there in the community if they just kind of knew how to get connected. They would give some time to yeah, so it's really interesting since we've been doing this road show, um, I've had quite an uptick in in requests for volunteer opportunities. So that that's been a great uh, benefit um, 1 thing that was recently developed by sac region, community foundation, who we operate under the umbrella of is a volunteer portal. Um so what people can do is they can go on there and they can put a specific geographic area, they can put a cause and then there will be information. Sent to them about volunteer opportunities in their & area. Um, so that is 1 resource. That is that was just launched. I think a week or 2 ago. Um I'm not sure about any other city government involvement um in the area. But that is a resource that we have right now. Do you? What's the url of that? Sorry. It's so, big day, giving.Org is familiar to people fr the 2 weeks leading up to the first thursday in MAY when every nonprofit you've ever interacted with send you for the emails. Um, but it's actually a year-on resource. It's the, it's officially called giving edge.Org. Um, but most people access it url big day of giving.Org, and so you can make actually donations to nonprofit organizations year round. And I believe that's also where the volunteer opportunities are housed. Okay? Thank you. Thank you so much for coming to jessica great. Uh, let's me do, great. Uh let's me do do you guys want to buy or break or we get to keep going. Quick bio break, 5 minute bio break, we'll be back with 7:45. Children. Uncertain times can feel really overwhelming, but I'm grateful that happiness changes. Thank you for supporting this issue of public relations. Sauce. Maybe to call this meeting back into session. Before we move to item 5, I just want to make an announcement that I forgot to make te video and she said it's our beloved vice mayor's birthday. So happy birthday. Thank you and and alan, that is not a call to sing. And there's no place you would rather be. Great. So let's move on to item 5. Um, we're gonna have a council subcommittee update, informational recap o the neighborhood meeting regarding the daytime, rest center for unsheltered individuals. If you want me to, get started. Yeah. So I'm going to provide a recap, and then I will turn it over to the subcommittee. Member's for additional comments. Um, for them to, to speak on it. So, um, as everybody is well aware, we have a daytime, reset center for unsheltered individuals, um, located at at the western portion of our 1 of our courtyards um at the address for the rest of the center is 5:30 l street. So the entrance and exit is off of l street and this center has been in place since late FEBRUARY of 2020. Um, when it first opened we went right into uh, co lockdown mode and stayed in that way. Um, for a good 18 months or so before the center kind of came out of that mode and operated on a more sort of um, what we more envisioned for it. Uh, the rest but center provides basic services, case management employment, assistance, front sheltered people. And we currently have an entity by the name of downtown streets team that manages the center, they have managed it for a little over a year. And then the costs to run the center are about 500,000 dllars a year. Plus the city staff time to for the administrative oversight that just provides some general context um for the the rest of the center more more for the record. I don't think I probably told you anything new. Um, this is just an & aerial shot, the rest bit center, you can see it in red dot kind of at the bottom of the page. Uh, we show this because we want to kind of highlight, um, most of the dvis manor neighborhood which is adjacent to the west center. Uh, what we do not show in this area is the old east uh, neighborhood, which is to the the south and a little bit to the west. Um, and also then uh, the the neighborhood that is immediately to the the west of the russet center, it's a fairly. Central location, but it's also, um, right in the middle of a lot of residential, uh, neighborhoods. So, the um, subcommittee began work with staff um and representatives of the couple representatives of the neighborhood, uh, well before JANUARY of 2025, the city, put out a survey to the neighbors. This was not a community-wide survey. This was a survey really focused on the nearest neighbors to the respit center. So, the neighborhoods that I just mentioned received the survey, it was an online survey but there were other other ways that people could apply to it if they wanted and we were trying to understand and hear in, um, the the words of the neighbors. So uh, directly fom from folks who impacted by the rest of the center but not clients. So the rest of the center, how did it affect them? Um, what kinds of things were concerning to them, what kinds of things were, they seeing hearing etc. Uh, we had a fairly robust, I would say, um, response to the survey. Um you cn see here on this slide, we received 92 surveys from the davis manor neighborhood. We received 56 surveys from folks who live in the huntwood neighborhood just to the rest and then also da vinci families. So folks who um, at their students, go to vinci high school, and then a couple of surveys from the old east davis neighborhood. So what this tells us is that people were very very interested in, um, being able to communicate directly with the city about their and their concerns about the rest but center, the survey further, um, we asked a lot of questions about. What, what have you seen since the respit center has opened, um, what our concerns that you have, you'll notice in this particular slide, um, we were trying to, uh, uh, categorize the things that were most, um, what they had seen in the neighborhood, you'll see that almost all of the respondents saw an increase in unhoused individuals, in your neighborhood. An increase in trash or littering an increase in yelling screaming or a violent language and then, uh, a feeling of general safety concerns. Um, the other items on here, I'll just read them for the good of the cause, uh, seeing more encampments and overnight camping. See people living in parked cars. Seeing public urination or defecation? Um, see more unhoused individuals, approaching them for food or water things like that uh greater noise. Concerns about crimes or greater crimes or theft vandalism and then damage to public property. So the, the neighbors, the respondents to the survey have quite a few concerns um, about things they were seeing with the timeline given um pre- resp center and post-it center. The top concerns just showing this in a slightly different way. Safety was a top concern. We heard that again and again. People did not feel safe. Um, in their neighborhoods, they didn't feel safe necessarily traveling from 1 place to another either within their neighborhood or um outside of going from their neighborhood uh to another location. Um, we heard a lot about, uh, the concerns about trash noise and encampments. And then also concerns about the daytime center is a daytime center. It does not offer overnight shelter. So, for the clients that are served at the center, what happens to them in the evening? Uh, where do they go? And what are they doing? Uh, you can see the rounded out by concerns about resources, um, the location and then, uh, the the limited hours for the rest of the center, um, and the concerns about property values. In addition to trying to collect the concerns and hear the, the issues that neighbors had. Um, the survey also asked, do you have potential solutions? What are your what do you think you could do? That would mitigate some of these concerns. Um, the 2 top suggestions were moving this in addition to trying to collect the concerns and hear the the issues that neighbors had um, the survey also asked, do you have potential solutions? What are your what do you think you could do? That didn't help inform a public meeting that we held on MARCH 2nd um at da vinci charter academy. Um so in the neighborhood and this again was a neighborhood meeting so it was not intended to be a communitywide meeting and we worked really hard to make sure that we were inviting and communicating with the neighbors to get them to participate in the meeting and also um, to get their input in terms of structuring the meeting. So, we did work with a small group of representatives from the neighborhood to try to put all of this together. Um, we did have a facilitated by