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standing by. City of davis. City council, tuesday, 11/18/2025. Captions. Standing by. >> the time is 06:34. I see that all of my colleagues are here. Is there a motion to approve or a general motion? Council member chapman, second council member deo, same discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion passes five zero. We have agenda. Turning to city manager, dunston, for brief announcements. Thank you, mara. Two quick announcements. The city office >> will be closed for thanksgiving holiday so that thursday and friday, NOVEMBER twenty seventh and twenty eighth. Emergency services will remain unaffected we do wanna wish everyone a safe and happy holiday. >> additionally, >> the city will be hosting its winter wonderland candlelight parade on DECEMBER 4. Festivities will be headquartered on g street between 2nd and 3rd, and the candlelight parade will begin at pm at the davis food co op. And if you want more information on this, you can search winter wonderland at cityofdavis.Org. And that concludes my announcement >> today. Thank you, sir. Manager dunston. Any announcements from my colleagues, liaison reports? Any intention to pull items from the consent calendar? Okay. Okay. Council member dales. >> three c. >> three c will be pulling the professional services agreement for cannabis for the cities. Is that the one you wanted or two three d, we're gonna pull second amendment to lease with davis community meals and housing. And >> and just more specifically, pulling it >> from consent but asking that we reorder it so that it follows item six. >> okay. So which one are you referring to? Second amendment to lease? We do. >> so both >> of you have that following >> item >> six. >> okay. >> so we'll go ahead and do the cannabis item >> first. >> and then we will do second amendment to lease last. Not regular items. >> okay. >> anything else? Any other insight by the MR. Poole? No? Okay. Move on to public comments. This is the time for the public to comment on items that are not on the regular agenda. Or if you can't stay for items on the regular agenda, if feel free to step up and comment. Yeah. Welcome. >> hi. My name is marisol >> cruz, and I'm a resident of adelante mutual housing located on 5th in poland. I am here today to discuss the pair the apartments in some of the businesses around. I have been a resident of yellow county for six years. Have made the most money here, I lost the most money here, leaving me in debt >> with >> bills I have never thought that would put me back more than ever in financial hardship than ever before. I don't want to it was a place I thought would be home, but it has been a traumatic experience for me and my children and myself. I removed them from the home last year when we had started being robbed for everything when we would leave the property. There was still groceries, hygiene, and cleaning supplies. I was working two jobs. Going to school and I had just gotten my 17 year old sister who was about to graduate and a nine year old who had just got put back in my care after I called cps to help me get on the right path to a back to being a better mother. As the second job as the two jobs in college began, I was busy at at korematsu as well with books fairs, jog a thons, events, field trips, and my nine year old united states. Along with that I had church three times a week, an organization I worked for taking my children with me to la for my business trips, allowing them to see my changes for them as a single mother and providing for my sister. When the theft started up again, were stealing $400 a month a year off my ebt cash at 711 on l street. I had a neighborhood I recording my door with the manager's kid informing me of this he lived on the 2nd floor. When calling the police, he admitted to the police in the report. The officer forgot to put that in the report before anything. I had my 8 thou I had my $8,000 in tax return money they stole right next to us. Another 15,000 including my student loan and items in my house. I called cps reaching out along with my programs to reopen my case. My case manager from the county reached out to them. They never responded. And communicare no longer have the cps program for relapse prevention. I was scared I was gonna lose it. Everything I worked for me letting it go to me putting it back together while informing the police, the manager, and the people I had moved my kids out a few days later, I seen a past of mine and words were exchanged that I lived in a different mutual housing than him. And my neighbors were part of the theft. He beat me up with a golf club and have broke my windows out of my lexus. And the next car was resold or the a lexus was resold. I informed the manager they were supposed to relocate. Us in every did. I ended up losing my all fell through, and I started giving a downtown street team was my only income of looking for a job. The vouchers helped me. When learning when learning with my disability, my rights, and getting all my printouts from welfare. I seen the transactions approach seven eleven, and he laughed at me. Told me I know you didn't make the transactions, but I'm not giving you your money back. A police make a police report and walked away laughing. I called the police. They took the report a little after I found my jewelry in my neighbor's coat. He admitted to take or my neighbor's son's coat. He admitted to taking it and things from my home. I told the manager, another incident, I was asleep in the day waking up to him in my house again. >> yes, >> sir. >> and a half over time. I'm gonna give you a chance to wrap up, but please wrap up for >> at this point, they had to give me eviction because of all the harassment and me, I can't hear out of one ear. So I talk loud. So the eviction, they're processing. I kept informing the maintenance to fix my backdoor, which he broke open. For a whole year. They have not fixed it. They try to tell them that I didn't have I didn't allow them to fix anything in my apartment. I did allow them to. I was I've made complaints to the to the respite center, to paul's place, to everybody. Because they weren't fixing anything because I threatened to sue them because they were putting things in my home and not informing me about them. So at this point, I'm just I just had ****** assault in my home while I was sleeping, and I sleep against my door, you know, and now they're putting an eviction on me, like, four things that they did >> to us I like this place in my >> head. Thank you for sharing your story. We'll have some city staff get in contact with you. MISS MISS it. miss, if you just wait, just for a few seconds, we'll have city staff get your name and contact information. Thank you. You're welcome to seven. >> hi. My name is wendy fryer and I'm a new resident to davis. At the SEPTEMBER I came here and I can relate to angst and sorrow and pain and turmoil like that. And I am homeless. And I went to paul's place that is recommended when you're in davis to go to paul's place and I asked if I could please have an emergency bed. And then they said, let us get to know you a little while. And I go, okay. Do you wanna do a background? You wanna >> do a drug test? >> how do you wanna get and then she says, well, your anxiety is a little over the top, and we don't want you to disturb the other people in the emergency bed. And my anxiety is exacerbated because I've been on the street and I'm 57 years old, and I'm a grandmother. And I pee behind bushes at night, I have a bladder problem. The street lights are giving me agitation with my acid reflux, and then people will come by when I'm trying to cuddle up in my sleeping bag they'll do passive aggressive things to try to intimidate me like slam doors or talk really loud or shine lights in my face. And I'm just trying to survive. I'm scared. It's NOVEMBER. And I am scared about winter and I I just think that since california is the leading of homelessness, I come to a theory about that. And I think it's because it's californians are chasing the gold. >> right? >> remember the gold rush and gold, the golden state? If you don't support the own your own members of your community, if you don't support your weakest link, you're shooting yourself in the foot. You're like the emperor's new clothing. The emperor's new clothes children's storybook. >> and >> I made an example like this. Let's say there's a woman, and she's getting all prettied up and gussied up, and she has her hair done and her lipstick and her and then all of a sudden, her hair pops up. A piece of her hair pops up, and then her slip is showing. And then her high heel is getting scuffed, and then her lipstick is all over her face like the joker. We're keeping up these pretenses, and we're pretending like there's not a problem. That's like parents thinking that their children, their teens are not gonna get pregnant. Let's turn the other way. Let's not look at the problem. You gotta look and see that we really do have a problem. Problem. And and you know what? There's bible verses that support this. This, >> again, we keep speakers to two minutes. I know you're a first time speaker. So we're >> am I >> almost done? You're over time. Okay. Well, >> I just >> wanted to share one more thing. That the bible supports helping the weak the needy, the homeless, the orphan, the disabled, and people like that. And if you pretend like they don't exist or try to intimidate them, you're hurting your own selves. And I will be willing to help with any coalition or any coordinating people to help you get ideas and I'll look up things, and I'll I'll do whatever I can to help homeless people and myself. Thank >> you. Thank you. Yeah. Just to make it clear to the other speakers, we limit speakers to two minutes. Sometimes if you're a first time speaker, we give a little bit more space, but please limit yourself to two minutes. Good evening. My name is tom schrader. I'm the owner of davis mobile mechanics >> and david's dry reclean here in david's. I spend a lot of time driving around davis and sometimes, late at night having a shattered noise. I put a post on next door last month, and it was one of the highest trending posts, and I had six eight people have agreed with me that something needs to be done about the bicyclists and scooters riding through the stop sign it is something I see on a daily basis in the last two months, I've had six episodes where I've had slam on the brakes because I've started to pull out an intersection and scooters bring right through. It's pretty rampant in downtown. If you go over by our residents on research and and on da vinci, you'll see probably 40 to 50 kids riding through those stop signs ad something needs to be done before we have >> a >> a tragedy. We don't wanna see one of these kids get killed. So I'm petitioning that the city council petition the police department to start writing citations for kids writing on the sidewalk with the bikes, no lights. Running through the stop signs on the scooters. Something's gonna get searched for her. And on my last thirty seconds, so my company davis mobile mechanic works at the heart of davis in the safe parking. And I've assisted two. Two of their beneficiaries for the program. They have a safe place to park now, but both of them are disabled. One lady can barely get in and out of her car. And she lost her house due to a bank error. But they are being harassed by the insurance department. So I think some should be just about that. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, sorry, >> good evening. >> city council members. My name is damian harding. >> I'm here for the first time because our >> community was facing a frightening and completely unacceptable situation. An adult woman has been approaching children near school, questioning them about their gender, their identity, and even asking about genitalia as they arrive or leave >> campus. >> these are children they are vulnerable, and they deserve to feel safe. Simply walking to and from school. Parents in our community are very scared. Kids are confused and many of us feel helpless that this behavior is still happening. I'm asking you to help us protect them. What's happening isn't just inappropriate, it overlaps with several serious public safety concerns. That include harassment of minors, child safety in public spaces, disorderly conduct, loitering with the intent to harass, and filming or questioning minors without parental consent which crosses clear boundaries of privacy, safety, and basic decency. This is not about politics or silencing anyone's beliefs. It is strictly about protecting children from invasive personal and potential traumatizing interactions by an unrelated adult. I'm asking the council to explore a local ordinance or policy that would prohibit any adult from approaching or recording minors to ask personal or ******** oriented questions without a parent's or guardian's >> consent. >> I would also appreciate guidance on whether residents can support this effort through a petition or community initiated process if needed. >> please, >> our kids should never have to worry about being confronted by an adult asking their body on the way to school. I'm asking for your help to make sure this stops. >> thank you for your time and thank you >> your commitment to keeping our community's children safe. >> thank you. Welcome. >> we we tend to refrain from either applause or any negative reactions just to create a space where we're comfortable in the same language. >> hello, and good evening, council members. >> my name is melissa nolan, and I am a davis community member. I'm here to back up and support damien sentiments. I'm here because I'm disturbed by the presence of an adult woman outside of davis schools. At pickup time, she has asked children about their genitalia and bodies, stalked them and their parents to their cars, and videotaped minors as well as posted them on social media without their parents consent. All of this harassment puts the safety and well-being of these children at risk. If an adult man asked about the genitalia of and videotaped minor students I do not think they would be allowed to continue this behavior or be tolerated in the way she has. I'm asking that the council do anything in its power to ensure this woman can no longer harass minors at their place of study. They should be able to leave without being stalked, intimidated, or asked about their body. I also ask that the council work to pass a local ordinance that prevent prevents harassment at and around schools during drop off and pickup hours. Please help us stand up to a woman who believes she can ******** harass children at davis school for the impunity. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> welcome. >> good evening, counsel. My name is aileen sammets. Here regarding the, the issue regarding the l street site for the, respite center. It's been five years that this respite center has been there, and it's supposed to be temporary. And that was supposed to be a promise made by the city that that was not gonna be permanent. And I know you've been looking at that decision tonight, and no staff is recommending you keep it there. But as you know, you've gotten plenty of input from that neighborhood. There's been no resolution of the many problems. It's not working the neighborhood. It's not working for the homeless. I very sympathetic to the homeless. I I coordinate a program that helps the pets, homeless. It's a small way that I help in my small way to contribute towards diminishing some of their troubles. But at the same time, there are better locations for this. And I've read the staff report and the staff report does not have enough information for you to make a good decision to make. So I'm gonna implore you, please don't make a permanent decision of moving it. Leaving it, I should say. But move it another location or at least three better locations. What makes the most sense is near paul's place because that's where all the resources are. That's where the social workers are. In the house there is a whole property right next to paul's place the city owns, that that should be refurbished to help with moving the respite center there. That would make the most sense. And they're sy >> talk about the fact that I do go in front >> schools and I'm on the public sidewalk. And I just have my signs asking why do we have tampons in the boys' bathrooms? You know, in elementary schools? Why are teachers so secretly socially transitioning kids at school? Why are we telling kids they could be born in the wrong body? Students approach me as I'm on the public sidewalk in fact, was one young man who said you know I'm taking hormones and I hate my genitalia. He said that to me. He wanted to share that information. And what I told him is your body is perfect. Don't let big pharma make money off of your body. Everyone feels uncomfortable going through puberty. Your body is perfect just as it is. So why I'm here is because at the davis library I was there to share this book, this this just came out last week. Anita bartholomew. She's a liberal woman who lives up in portland and she interviewed me and wrote a chapter about what happened to my daughter in >> the public >> schools and how kaiser permanente wanted to medicalize her body. They wanted to amputate her breasts and put her on sterilizing and blockers. When I went to the library, they canceled the event and out front was anush jajorean. I have a photograph of anush right here. Anush works with gloria portita with the davis queer teen group telling children that they can have secrets from their parents because their body's wrong and everything about their body, they should hate. but I was there to talk about the two fifteen books at the davis library telling children that they could be born in the wrong body. Anush, you know, interrupted me. She does not want me to have any interaction with people because she's afraid of the discussion. You know, everyone who has a brain knows it's >> impossible to change your ***. You're born a >> girl, you grow >> up to be a woman. If you're born a boy, you grow up to be a man. >> this >> up. And nobody's >> born in the wrong >> body. Thank you. Time is up. Have a great evening. >> welcome. I >> I'm the granddaughter of last chinese empire. I'm the leader of the and I want to share it's not personal attack. It's from my email. Jenny tang is a is a feed. It's >> so the money suppose jenny tang is like a >> hourly worker or 90 for my family. Okay. Back to my topic. I'm going to comment about the from davis project. I read the newspaper this sunday's news newspaper. It's talking about, you know, the reason to want to have this project. I want to share with everyone what I found out is I read the david davis vanguard. I was a retroactive realtor under pandemic. Vacancy before the pandemic is zero. Which means every house you can rent out, but right now it's 710%. 100 houses or seven at least kind of rent out the md and it's so I don't think that there's a need for the, you know, farm projects because it's always it's demand. And you know, do you provide more, but we don't have that population anymore after the pandemic and I'm expecting the vacancy rate at that low. And also about the apn035, nine seventy, and the zero thirty three, I thought I want to I wanna ask her who is the owner because from the online, I can now see the owner's name it is a agricultural private property. And I believe >> thank you. You >> know, my family believe that's my family's poverty, and, you know, jimmy tech is a piece. >> welcome. >> alan miller, >> jude, town, >> down. Right over there. I guess I'm just gonna have to keep coming here. It takes years. Until the town realizes that over there at the gown we we have a >> problem with we said about jews through megaphones and people who are masked similar to what the kkk used to do right out there, you know, on OCTOBER 7, supposed to be a memorial. This was not from the river to the sea which various uced professors can just say. Oh, it just means >> that >> we want >> liberation. Doesn't mean kill all the jews. Okay. Well, maybe to some people it doesn't. No, we're talking about people who shouted alka san, make us proud. Kill another 100 now. I'd like to see any progressive professor at ucd say that isn't kill 100 jews. Right there next to people wo were jewish who were gathered for a memorial. And then a guy comes up, two people, shouting free palace and then the guy gets his curtain. He shouts, death to israel. So ucd just swept that under the carpet. Didn't get into the news. I think you need to get ucd to acknowledge that happened to that MAY 2 happened at the coffee house. And get them to admit that it happened and then condemn >> it. >> thank you. >> philippe, >> welcome. >> good evening, mayor. Good evening, council members. My name is liam. I am ive been up here maybe on two occasions over the last three years. >> tonight, I'm coming in to speak on behalf of myself as an out trans man. Been out for almost three years. Davis has been nothing but supportive and shown compassion and kindness. Matter of fact, half the time, nobody even notices or cares. I don't believe in outing oneself. Because we should just get to be who we are and judged. And liked. Based on how we act in community, how we behave around people, the respect we give to people, I'm also a firm believer in freedom of speech. I served my country in the military because I believe in everything. I believe in my constitution. I believe in my country. I believe in the people here. What I can't believe in is that we are still in a time where so many people want to create a division amongst members of their own community that want to use children as bait, to bait people into rage, over misleading words, misinformation, lies, even if it's sprinkled with a dash of truth, who knows, it's still it's the 100% reason for it is to stir emotions and right now, there are enough emotions flowing in this country for so many other reasons that we shouldn't be targeting. Specifics, but here we are. I understand the there's a camera on the back of me right now. I've seen that same camera on me numerous times. I'm over that camera. Show me all you want. What I don't like is where it goes because people who see it >> threaten. Thank you. >> welcome. >> good evening, mayor, council member, members. Thank you for allowing me to >> time to speak. My name is vernon mczeke. I am an employee at the davis community rescue center. Myself and my colleague, ariana domenico, I just wanted to come up here and just share some information about the rescue center. Since OCTOBER 28, we've had 223 respite guests, 148 essential service provided, and 81 referrals to connect it to community resources. if anyone's been to the respite center, you could see that it has a lot of potential. But potential can only get us so far. We have to do an investment. I feel like I've invested time. I've invested, and my colleagues and the community have invested hours of getting to know the people in the community, our neighbors, as well as, some of the rest of the clients. For those of you that have not been to the respite, monday, tuesday, thursday, and friday, we are open eight to four, and you're welcome to come and have a tour just to see what we do. And on wednesday, eight to 02:30. Our shower operable. Our cart room is operable. The people that are coming in are getting resources. They're finding community. It's a safe space, a sober space for those that are looking just to just to find a safe space. We've connected with the businesses across the street. Just community engagement and partnerships is is really something that we aim to do. There at the rest of it. Really just building a bridge between the community and businesses and the neighborhood, not just for those experiencing homelessness, but really for the whole community because it's a community respite. >> thank you. >> hi. >> my name is deborah joy, and I'm with alpha about the respite center. So we're getting into the mayor and city council. >> if you can I'm >> here this evening to support vernon mcsiege who just >> spoke and arianna domenico in the davis rescue center. And to encourage the city to continue to support their work at the center by having this center be operated by the city. I currently work for community church, which I've been there for about five years. I'm not speaking on behalf of the church, but we do support folks in the community that are served by the in house agencies that help the unhoused I provide services to some of the unhoused communities as well as those living in affordable housing in my work I consult with empower yolo, well not only my work but our church consults with empower yolo communicare, heart of davis, phoenix coalition, the davis community respite center previously known as downtown streets team. We also work with the yolo food bank and yin. So in working with that community the thing that I really recognize I worked at h, I ran the resource center at h street for about five years and then moved on to supportive housing. And also volunteered within use with irws and which is now heart of davis. And I know the importance of developing positive solid relationships with those seeking >> service >> from a respite center or a resource center. It can take quite a while to get to know the clients, understand their needs, establish trust. But it's really supportive relationships that people are able to move their lives forward. Another very important aspect of I think this is equally as important if serving the in house community is the ability to recognize the strengths of other agencies and work cooperatively. Downtown street's team actually was housed at dcc. They had an office for a year and then for two years ran their outreach program. And during that time I got to know the staff including vernon and arianna. And I saw many clients that >> I know >> here, two minutes, I'm going to ask you to >> hey, folks. My name is andrew. >> and I just wanted to say really quickly that that woman behind me who's recording who was ******** harassed children, I've also seen her on the uc davis campus harassing our trans students. That's all. She tries to she tries to make it seem like she's all sunshine and rainbows and all about body positivity, but really that's just not true. Thank >> you. >> welcome. >> hello. So I >> I >> volunteered with the downtown streets team for months. They gave me a job I've been struggling with housing. >> one of the managers >> wanted me to give a speech to you guys. She wrote it out. Well, this one's from the heart. L street has helped people. Paul's place is available, but I think it's overcrowded. There's a lot of drug use and stuff. So I just wanna tell you guys that health street's helped me out a lot. They gave me a job due to the budget concerns. I lost my job. It was supposed to be from valentine's day >> till >> AUGUST, and it was cut short in JUNE. But I go there often, >> and >> the staffs helped me out. So thank >> you. Thank you. Welcome. >> hello. >> I'm michael shear. I've lived in davis since about '90 >> '6. >> also, I wanna thank for holding space. This is difficult, emotional. You're doing a great job. I really appreciate >> everyone here. On city council. >> thank you. So I'm here excited about the opportunities that davis has in confronting and solving some of these difficult problems. It's very difficult, not everybody will be happy but for the greater good and for our needy people we need to move forward I took a step a couple weeks ago by starting a new free meal. So I now feed the homeless on alternating sundays with a group of people, volunteers. I'm I'm dedicating part of my retirement years to helping. I think we all need to think about that and to think about the commitment to those in need and to exercise compassion >> and thoughtfulness. >> and kindness to everyone. I support the respite center. I know it has its problems with the neighborhood. I think there's a few bad actors that cause most of the problem. And I think we need to get creative in solving those problems by approaching those people and figuring out how to reduce the impact on the neighborhood. I heard that there's only four hotel rooms gonna be rented for the winter shelter. I think we can do better than that. I think we can have more support especially for our elderly and vulnerable unhoused. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. >> evening. I'm dean johansen. I've been a >> resident since, '97. >> and raised five kids in davis. I came out today to support vernon and arianna. I had a child he'll be he became he became homeless here in davis. He says pastor be, but I I'm sorry. I saw firsthand what the respite center did and I've had the occasion to spend time there and watch what vernon and ariana have done. And I support them wholeheartedly. I'll also I was standing behind michael scher, and he was helping me open a fridge at the quaker church this last week. And I would invite all of you to stop on by fourth nl. And it's in its formative, you know, beginning stages, but I would like to put these fridges all over town. If you follow what's going on there's not a better time when you're thinking about food insecurity and the holidays arriving. Thank you. Thank you. >> welcome. Evening. >> good evening, MISTER Honorable mayor, MADAM Vice mayor, council members and administrators. My name is fang ho. I currently a uc davis student. And tonight I stand before you ask for >> your support to affirm the safety and security of our school children by passing ordinance and rules as affirmed by those speaking before me. As I stand before you tonight, >> I have been in >> closet and not yet lived at my ideal perception of yourself. >> for the past fifteen years. My family was incredibly conservative and traditional and so I stayed hidden and quiet not knowing what my next steps would be. Being in community college in the us and now being in david have allowed me to, in small steps, explore my gender identity with others. Bt prior to that, I can only see comfort in silent acts of solidarity and by helping others live their lives. Trans people and queer people in general has been put on the front line along other marginalized minority during these upended times. They might live their entire lives wondering to themselves what is wrong with me and why do I feel so strange in this body of money? It is peculiar enough it is hard enough. It is challenging enough. It certainly does not help seeing strangers as harassing kids on their way to school, on their way back from home, asking about the things that are te most insecure about. I stand before you tonight sincerely urging you to do something. It is not safe for kids as a small it's a small town. We want to preserve this sense of community and it does not help having strangers on the street asking people. Thank you. I use the rest of my time. >> thank you. Welcome. >> welcome. But you're you're welcome to speak. You could ignore. You could ignore that. You're welcome to speak. Yeah. >> just get in front of me. >> I understand. But you don't have the floor, >> beth, you don't have the floor right now. If you want you're you're right now, beth, you're disrupting a public meeting. If you wanna be >> kicked out, you'll continue. If you >> if you continue to disrupt the public meeting, we'll kick you out, beth. Please. >> ding wang. >> same wearing a applies. If you continue to disrupt a public meeting, we'll kick you out. >> apologies. Take breath. Take your time. >> okay. >> my name is salem. I'm a student at uc davis. Didn't plan on I'm here for a school project. And >> I guess >> it's kinda fitting that I'm a trans person trying to live my life, and now I have to work with that. Kind of typical. I just wanted to talk about, like, >> I'm a trans adult. I used >> to be a trans kid. I came out when I was in high school. And my parents were supportive. And they didn't trans me. Like, they didn't forcibly secretly transition me like beth moran says. Like, just wanna say, trans people and especially trans kids deserve a supportive environment. Deserve a place where they can be themselves and not deal with harassment. And they deserve to have books about them and about people like them. They can read in libraries. I'm trying to ban experiences or ban books telling about these experiences does not eliminate trained experiences. It just forces them back in positive it doesn't stop anyone from being trans. It just stops trans people from being happy. >> also, >> I think you guys should probably ban people from filming in here. Because there's already cameras recording other things. So it's really like, an intimidation tactic. Yeah. On a lighter note, I have thirty seconds left, I wanna say the on russell boulevard in west davis, the northern sidewalk is always covered in, like, leaves >> and that's >> probably the thing that >> yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> you. >> any more in house public >> comment? >> okay. Before we move to record, I just wanna say again that the city of davis has and will continue to >> support lgbtq plus rights, including its peak, which is transgender. >> do we have any recorded public comment sir? >> this conference >> speaking on item two general public comments. So agree with and support >> some of the past public comments about divesting from companies and projects affiliated with elon musk because of the various forms of harm that he creates both with his rhetoric as well as his actions. And while he creates harm on a number of topics, one of the issues where he creates harm that sometimes isn't discussed as much as it used to be is around labor rights. Because he very much mis mistreats his workers and also does not allow them to self organize through unionization, and we need to be supporting all workers in their fight for dignity and benefits and wages that provide a good standard of living. And that includes starbucks workers, who recently went on strike and are continuing to for a good contract across the country. As well as uc campus workers including alchemy three thousand two and ninety nine workers 3,299 is a uc unit state that covers patient care and service workers. So custodians and ground keepers and dining service workers and whatnot. And they are currently in contract negotiations and were on strike today, and and we must continue to support them in their struggle in any way possible in order to pressure the uc any administration to provide what these workers need in order to live a good dignified and comfortable life. >> you. We'll move on to the consent calendar. Are there any motions to approve the consent calendar minus item c and d? >> so move. >> councilor seconds. >> second. Vice >> mayor neville, in discussion. All in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> motion >> passes five to zero. Move on to the regular calendar starting with the cannabis item. Who's there? Who needs stuff on that? You know, dustin, do you have the lead staff on the cannabis side? And I know there's a presentation, but I wanna go and staff the opportunity to make any comments, if they wish. Before we move to council discussion. Yes, >> ma'am. We have, >> deputy director eastwood with us to answer all questions. >> any any >> preliminary comments you wanna make? >> of course. Good evening, mayor and council >> members. >> I'm alexis eastwood. I am >> currently filling the role of interim finance director for budget and operations. >> and thank you for bringing this to our attention this evening. We do appreciate that council is cognizant of small business needs. And so we do take this seriously. Staff >> understands the concern that was expressed >> by a citizen and we do ask that council gives us some time to kind of reassess the overall structure for our cannabis compliance and audit process and return in DECEMBER with an alternative structure to propose. And we feel that that would be the best at this time because we do wanna consider the small business >> needs in the city. >> thank you, alexis. Any clarifying questions before we open up for public comments? >> sure. >> I'm the one who requested >> the >> discontent hold. I have received >> I think there's an email from a swamp business owner who was concerned about the cost of keeping up with the audits and especially when somebody has been in complaint here for a year why are they having to continue to pay >> x amount of dollars? And so what I was going to ask is that you examine this more fully and it sounds like you wish to do that. And kind of come >> back just >> about how we can share that burden or lower that cost burden for these businesses. So I thank you on that. Anybody else needs clarification I get that. That's >> thank you for that. Just one really quick question because I know the cannabis business >> are really heavily regulated and there's a whole suite of audit requirements that come out of >> state law. Is this particular one here one that is required by state law? Or is it something we go above and beyond? >> it is one where we go above and beyond. Thank you, joanne. You. Any >> clarifying questions? >> any in house public comment >> okay. Bring it back to the colleague. Staff has made a suggestion to bring back this item on the sunday. With a response to the policy >> the >> comment. Was that acceptable to >> I think any >> motion is required. Any other discussion on this item? Thank you. That's six appreciate >> it. >> move on to the item of the regular calendar item >> four, which will be the adoption of the 2025 california buildings fund and code. Sherry, I believe, and then five marshall patrick. Send it. >> good evening, MR. Mayor and city council members. >> my name is carson green, and I am the >> city of david's acting building official. >> here with me this evening is patrick sandhalt, the city of davis fire marshal. The items before you is the recommended adoption of the 2025 california building standards code also known as title 24 of the california code of regulations. We have a collaboration team. We have a collaborative team of community development the fire department, four leaf, and the city attorney's office who have been working on these updates over the past >> several months. >> I wanted to extend a sincere appreciation to each member of this team for their time, expertise and collaboration on this code update. Tonight, we are presenting the proposed adoption of the 2025 california building standards code which includes the 2025 california fire code, these update standards become effective statewide on 01/01/2026. This is a perennial update that governs building safety, fire protection, and energy standards throughout the state. This item serves to review the new code cycle explain our local adoption processes, and outline the amendments recommended to ensure the city of davis municipal code remains aligned with state law while addressing our unique local conditions. To ensure compliance with the new state requirements, we must also update sections of the city of davis municipal code. State law gives cities two options, adopt the building standards exactly as published or adopt them with local modifications that are more restrictive to meet local conditions and community needs. Over the past few months, the building division and the fire department have jointly reviewed the 2,025 state building standards codes alongside our existing local code. Based on that review, the amendments before you tonight come with the full support of the building division and the fire department. the draft amendments are consistent with the city's long standing approach readopting and reaffirming local amendments justified by the city of davis district climate, geographical and topographic conditions, as well as making administrative adjustments that keep our code practical enforceable, ad aligned with current permitting processes. Originally introduced to council on 10/21/2021, staff is proposing to repeal and place both article 8.01 of chapter eight and thirteen point zero one of chapter 13 with code amendments brought forward from the previous 2002 code we've included part seven from the 2025 california wildland urban interface code this is a new code in the 2025 but does not currently pertain to the city of davis. The model code contains several appendices which are included in the code for reference. We propose adopting the appendices listed here to better align with health and safety standards and effectively response to housing needs and emergencies. Staff recommends approving an ordinance repealing and replacing article 8.01 of chapter eight and article 13.01 of chapter 13 of the city of davis municipal code and adopting by reference certain parts including related appendices as identified of the california code of regulations titled 24, 2025 edition of the building and fire code. You. >> thank you, guys. Appreciate >> it. >> anything to add by marshall? >> single? >> no. Parsley covered it. It was a collaborative effort between both >> of us. >> the fire code falls within the building code. So that's why. We're speaking to join. >> okay. >> great. Any clarifying questions from the colleagues up here? Public comment on this issue? Please? >> welcome. >> good evening, dave. Stopped criticizing gentleman, I noticed that you didn't talk about >> costs, >> in fact, if you adopt this. >> I'm focusing my attention on the single family portion. Primarily. On my research, these changes will add depending on the size of the home somewhere between 28,000 and $40,000 to the cost of a new home in davis. I am urging you not to adopt these ordinances until the staff has an opportunity to discuss what people actually construct these homes. To to be able to at least you know, the economic effects it's gonna have on our community. The whenever you raise the cost of a new home, it has the ancillary unintended consequence of raising the price value of resale homes. So it's not just a minor item I'm particularly concerned about first time homebuyers. Where every dollar makes a difference. You add $28,000 to a thousand square foot home that's a significant increase. Mortgage wise, these are the populations of mortgage cost per month, $150. Median 5.5% of interest. In palomino place, for example, small project, 180 units, the cost of construction will be increasing by 5,400,000.0. Time running out, I'd encourage you to send this back to the staff do a cost analysis so that you know the impact of the changes. >> your in house public comment? >> are you recording, sir? No. Okay. I'll bring it back to colleagues from the session? >> welcome. >> hi, alan hirsch. >> there is a myth that prices are related to cost. That you >> raise the price, the cost of something, people will raise the price of the marketplace. >> but we >> know that's >> not >> true because rents went up in the city of davis dramatically when there's a shortage. Not related to the cost, not really anything. So it's very developers to complain >> that the cost >> housing would go because it's the price of housing would go because of the cost of yeah, we should be concerned with cost effective. But the developers say that they've got charge more for the house because the cost goes up. Cut into their profits because the cost of something that you pay at store is a function of the market. What's the market for supply and demand, not the cost of the product. So let's not continue to basically lie about what we can that's basic mark. Macroeconomics 101. Developers basically lying if they're to raise the prices, have to raise the price of housing based on additional costs. It's just not true. Just not true. >> other in house public comments? Bring it back to the council. Any questions, >> thoughts? >> comments? >> I would leave approval. I'll second. >> second. >> council misham, any discussions? >> all in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> motion >> passes five zero. Concludes our policy. >> MISTER Mayor yes. >> if I MAY, >> I >> do wanna give a shout out. This >> is carson's first presentation, and >> it can >> be nerve wracking when >> you're giving >> your first. And I just wanna put you to an awesome job, and >> want >> to let you all know. >> yeah. >> thank you, person. Sorry it's remiss of me not to thank you very much. Really appreciate the presentation. >> we're gonna take a five minute bio >> break, and we'll come back for the next item. >> MISTER Mayor? Excuse me? >> I need to as a downtown business owner and a paying member of the dbid, I need to recuse myself with >> this. Recuse. >> this agenda item. >> okay. Thank you. >> yeah. Yeah. Let's let's wait a few seconds for josh. >> that's >> that's cool. Recuse us. >> alright. Thank you, MISTER Mayor, very >> much. >> appreciate that. So I just have a very brief presentation for you this evening. It's a public hearing, which means that we're asking you to receive some public comment, open public hearing, conduct etcetera. And at the end of my presentation, I'm gonna have brett lee, the director of the ddba, provide commentary on the last slide, and then he has a promotional video to share. With the community and the city council. So just a reminder what the recommendations are in the staff report. Is to hold a public hearing to the 2025 davis downtown david report. To adopt the resolution to levy, which allows us to move into the process of putting the dbid assessments into the annual business license renewal envelope, so it's nice envelopes that go out to all of our businesses at the end of the year. And to approve the resolution that would authorize our city manager to execute the pass through agreement with the ddba and also >> authorize us >> to do the various different activities that are outlined in the budget and other agreements >> we have with the ddba to implement those activities. So it's our main agreement with >> the ddba. >> just as a reminder, the money that we collect has to be used for the following activities. So it can't be used for any reason that's outside. This is prescribed both in our municipal code and the california constitution. These are the boundaries for where we collect. The boundary that's on the left is the core area and the boundary that is on the right is the peripheral area of benefit and this is for reflected in the fee schedule. And just as a reminder, so the estimate last year it was $141,000. We were estimating and collecting several of our larger contributors to the dva, like mama's restaurant, have since closed. And so we're looking at a decrease of about 12% of the number of businesses that will be paying into dbad, so we've lowered this number. Now in the staff report, is a notation that we've also conducted an audit of the brick and mortar businesses that are conducting in those two districts that I showed you on the previous slide. We do estimate that there is a significant number of businesses who perhaps unaware that they need to be paying into the city's business license and deed program. So we're going to do a little educational, soft educational >> outreach >> to let them know we think that dollar amount will increase. >> and we have increased the estimated administrative costs from 22,000 previously to >> 30,000 this year to cover the cost of that additional >> educational outreach. And those costs are covered by the general fund. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over so director lee >> can share >> his work that he's been doing with the dbid funds ad, what he has coming up in the future. Thank you. >> thank you, greg. I >> yes. And my colleague, patrick carzan, is with me. We both work for the downtown business association. We're here to answer any questions. And we do have just little >> bit of a slide just showing a few of the types of things that we >> work on. >> and as you MAY recall, council was very interested in activating the g street space. So we did a trial run with downtown at dusk a music event series on thursday >> evenings. We plan to continue with that. >> actually on a weekly basis starting in the spring. >> and >> so, we >> work with you as partners, and we look forward to continuing that partnership. >> on the next slide, we'll just see a little video. It's last for >> two and a half minutes, but just to give you a sense of some of the >> activities we've had this fall. >> always go. Downtown when you've got worries, all the noise in the hurry cease to help I know >> that's how we can just listen >> to >> the music of are much brighter there. You can't forget on your truffles. Forget all your cares, so go down, things be great. Everything bleeding. Your problems surround you. There are movie shows. Downtown. Maybe no sun little places to go to. Where they never know. Downtown, just listen to the rhythm of the jello box. You can't forget all your troubles, forget all your lights waiting for >> tonight. You're >> gonna be alright now. >> and you met my >> just like you and >> too. >> guide them along. So maybe I see that we can't forget all our truffles. Forget all our cares for going down, >> down. >> thank you. Appreciate it. >> if I make a recommendation, I would just like to note that >> we >> I have not received any protests related to this assessment, and I would just ask that, thank you zoe for confirming that she has not received anything. Through the city clerk's office as well. Thank you. I'm concluding my presentation. >> great. Thanks, >> any clarifying questions from colin before we open it up for public comment? >> just a question. You mentioned there is an audit and if not all of the business have participated or >> have paid >> their assessments. >> do you have an >> estimate of how much money is out there >> that we've not had? No, don't. In >> part because our both our business license and our dbid fees are on a sliding scale, so they are a function of the gross receipts. So I just have a rough idea of the number of businesses. And so we hope we believe that based on sort of an average aggregate that there MAY be up to $50,000 in dbid assessments that have that need to be collected and need to do some education on. >> any other questions from the audience? Let's open it up for public comment. We will be in house public >> one push. >> davis is >> downtown special. Two things. We do from the entertainment district and a farmer's market. It brings people in from all over. It's a place where people visit. So my question is why we using that it is our anchor store for downtown. It's what draws people in, but we haven't really synergized it. And brought people in. >> and it's so >> we so ignored that downtown the davis farmers market, davis is not even owned by the city. The city has basically let the nonprofit oganization claim that they own those three works. I put it on a flyer and they say, you can't use that because we own those three words. If you remember yosemite, there was the iwani lodge they rented out, they gave it to a contractor. And the contractor claimed they owned that name. And they had to buy it back for $20,000,000 we have basically sold the name davis farmers market to this nonprofit which has no accountability to the city, there's no mechanism, there's not any visibility of a profit they're making or what the salaries are. There's no kind of a they tried to close down the free speech area. And there was no accountability for that because moving it to the fit we had to protest that. No one is appreciating the farmer's market and managing it as an asset of the city, not of the farmers who run the board of this thing. There's no accountability. Has anyone done an audit of how much money they're making? I mean, I don't I don't think I don't think they're making a lot of money, but I think someone should audit there should be some accountability, some mechanism. There should be a citizen's commission that reviews it not an autonomous independent board that has no accountability. They only have to have open meetings. Can't even give anybody a comment. They can set arbitrarily whether they do do things on wednesday night or not. There should be accountability to the city and the citizens of the committee of what happens in the farmers market. Please, it's our it's anchor store in downtown and there's no >> accountability. >> thank >> you. >> hi. I just had a question. So with the whole business thing, I know that it draws a lot of the attention, like, during the weekends. I was just wondering, like, with the students that are here and I noticed, like, there's so many talents out there and so many things that are going on. Oh, is it just for businesses? I mean, because there's times where people play music out there and they're you know, people are drawn to that that's how businesses are running. That's how they get more attention, you know, and that's how more money made within the businesses. So sometimes, you know, noise isn't always a bad thing because it draws the light to the place of where we're supposed to relax and have fun, and downtown is the place to be. So I'm just curious, like, do are we when people come out to wanna, like, play their music or, you know, play the piano or or violins or whatever. Are they do they have to be entitled to, like, paying for for the business of that area too? Or >> thank you. Yeah. We usually, we don't ask answer questions directly, but you might oh, >> I'm sorry. >> in the future. It's great. Thank you for your comment. And then we MAY choose to ask that question of staff. >> oh, okay. Thank >> you. Okay. >> thank you. Mhmm. >> other in in house public comment? Well, just >> just really quickly, the nonprofit I work with got something in the mail about some levy that is suggested on businesses in the core area do enhancement or something >> I don't like that. >> businesses are already >> struggling in davis. Why would you levy more tax taxes on our small businesses when we're losing businesses all the time. The city council should bend over backwards to support businesses reduce the cost of doing business in davis, and enhance our downtown by supporting our wonderful small businesses. So a levy seems like a bad idea taxes in general should kept low. To support business in my >> opinion. Thank you. >> any other in house public >> comments? >> I'll bring it back to counsel for I'll move it back to counsel for >> sure. Have a question and also kudos to all of the activities that are going on downtown at seems to it was a great video to watch. Seeing >> people having a good time. So >> the do you have a way to >> to >> to see if all of the new activity like the downtown at dusk, what effect >> that's having on people coming to eat. I guess we can look at you know, taxes that are collected, right, on certain days and things like that. Is there is that, like, something that you've thought about? Well, both of you. >> yeah. So after each event, we anecdotally ask >> the restaurants perhaps. So for instance, at dan downtown, there were restaurants that had specials that were promoted during the event. And so we're able to, you know, on an individual level, ask them whether they saw an increase in business and same thing with downtown at dusk. So variety of things where our able to ask. Katie and the city have better access to just aggregate data that will provide some temperature reads to you in terms of the efforts that some of this promotion is doing. In addition, I'm happy to address some of the public comment questions. >> I think if >> you >> would, yeah, that >> was my next question. >> so I will go ahead and respond to your question and let you ask any other questions that you MAY have in response to the public comment. So the city does receive, quarterly sales tax and we can aggregate it down to the downtown. But it is real time, so we have to wait until >> that is completed. >> excuse me. And then it's been posted. And then we meet with we meet with our sales tax consultant, and they do provide us that information. However, it does not provide us with specific time frames for events or what the actual draw is. Some staff and I have been having some conversations there are some vendor products that do provide that real time data. Visit yolo uses data like that. And so we have been looking into it and if the council would like us to come back with a presentation on what those vendor sources are and what they would cost and how they could be used, we are completely open to doing that since we have been doing that independent research on our own to understand how other entities are tracking in real time or near real time their attendance. >> great. And then the well, go ahead and answer address some of the public comment. >> yeah, MR. Hirsch was expressing some concerns about the davis farmers market. I I just wanted to be clear that the davis farmers market and the board of the davis farmers market are not the same as the davis downtown business association or the davis downtown business association board. Our board meetings are open to the public. The farmers market is a member of the downtown business association, just as any member business, any business in the geographic overlay is kind of by definition a member. we had some concerns about the costs nonprofits are specifically exempt from having to pay the dbid assessment. In addition, there was a question about musicians and things like that. Musicians are typically guest performers. There is no requirement for them to somehow pay an assessment into the davis downtown business association. It's based upon sort of brick and mortar fixed physical locations. As a background, one of the key components of the day town business association is the promotion of businesses. And so for the assessment, let's call it 230,000, there are six people who work on behalf of promoting the business downtown. And as an example, we have a social media team that puts posts together for free, both static posts and also videos of businesses. We found that many business owners don't have the bandwidth or the specific skill set to modern and the more start up to market and the more modern social media way, and we provide that as a service for free. To them. And so the dbit assessment assessment is a rather efficient way to actually promote the downtown through events marketing, and things of that nature. So happy to discuss further with any member of the public who would like to learn >> more. >> and can you speak a little bit to what somebody thought was a levy that >> they received in >> there? >> that is that the >> downtown? Is it the >> the >> noticing >> is slightly imperfect process of katie to sort of firm that up both in terms of who receives assessments, requests for assessments, and also the collection process. So we're we're working directly with the city. But as I mentioned a nonprofit by definition would not be required to pay the dbid assessment. >> but this isn't a new >> fee? No, no, there's >> no, >> but correct. So sometimes, businesses are mistakenly left off the noticing, and just recently heard from the usda. They've got something, it's government entities are also specifically exempted from this levy. So just through just happenstance sometimes, things like that do happen. But we are working on improving that system. >> okay. >> and then >> the last >> thing that I'm curious about >> is I see that there is a in the budget there's budgeted for beautification. And that is one of the areas that the dbed is, you know, is is is made for. Right? It's for that's one of the charges that that can be it can be used for. And I know that we've had some >> folks that >> this is a